“search the scriptures” John 5:39

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Ken Rudge
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‘Fire Safety – Risk Assessment Small and Medium Places of Assembly’
A change in the law affecting Fire Safety New fire safety rules affecting all non-domestic premises in England and Wales came into force on the 1st of October 2006. These new enforceable regulations c…
Ken Rudge
2007 Volume 62 Issue 1
Report
A Personal Word About Something Personal
“There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not”, the fourth being “the way of a man with a maid”, Prov. 30. 18, 19. The inspired writer thus touches on a subject whi…
Ken Rudge
1982 Volume 33 Issue 3
Young Believer’s Section
Arthur Shearman
Our dear brother and fellow committee member, Arthur Shearman has decided, because of increasing age and his many commitments, to resign from the work of Precious Seed Committee. Arthur first became a…
Ken Rudge
Gospel Work and other Assembly Activities – January-February, 1979
Jeremiah – Prophet of Faithfulness and Compassion
Gospel Work and Other Assembly Activities – January-February 1978
Gospel Work and Other Assembly Activities – September-October 1978
2002 Volume 57 Issue 4
Report
Arthur Shearman 1923 – 2014
In the home call of Arthur Shearman, the assemblies have lost a ‘brother indeed’. His longstanding commitment to a very broad range of the Lord’s work throughout his life made him a beloved brother an…
Ken Rudge
2015 Volume 70 Issue 1
History
Born Again
Becoming a Christian is a staggering event. The Scriptures provide us with a variety of terms to help us understand what it means. As we mention briefly a few of these, the wonder of our blessings sho…
Ken Rudge
1986 Volume 37 Issue 5
Young People’s and Bible Students’ Section
Editorial
‘Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching’, Luke 12. 37. Seeing that we do not know at what time of any day the Lord will return, the key words for our encouragemen…
Ken Rudge
2005 Volume 60 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial
And he said, ‘Lord I believe’. And he worshipped him. John 9. 38. The defence of the man that was born blind takes up most of the narrative of this ninth chapter of John’s gospel. It centres on the ch…
Ken Rudge
2003 Volume 58 Issue 2
Editorial
Editorial
‘Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ, who risked their own necks for my life, to whom … I give thanks’, 1 Cor. 16. 3, 4. It is very important to feel that we all have a part in the…
Ken Rudge
2004 Volume 59 Issue 4
Editorial
Editorial
‘And Jesus came … saying, ‘All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them … teaching them … and, lo, I am with you alway’, Matt. 28. 18-20. I…
Ken Rudge
2004 Volume 59 Issue 3
Editorial
Editorial
'if we deny him, he also will deny us: if we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself’, 2 Tim. 2. 12, 13. In this, the final of Paul’s letters in our New Testament, the Spirit of G…
Ken Rudge
2004 Volume 59 Issue 2
Editorial
Editorial
‘Son, go work today in my vineyard’, Matt. 21. 28. The question that provoked the exchange between the Lord and the chief priests and elders, of which our text is part, was the question of authority. …
Ken Rudge
2004 Volume 59 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial
‘And now I exhort you to be of good cheer …wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer’, Acts 27. 22, 25. There was absolutely nothing for anyone to be cheerful about! Luke had just recorded his comments regar…
Ken Rudge
2003 Volume 58 Issue 4
Editorial
Editorial
We are encouraged, as we publish yet another issue of the magazine, to receive so many letters and emails from believers speaking of the benefit they are getting from its contents. Thank you for this …
Ken Rudge
2003 Volume 58 Issue 3
Editorial
Editorial
‘Therefore seeing we have received this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not’. 2 Cor. 4. 1. In the things of God there never has been a time for giving up. The stewardship contract we ha…
Ken Rudge
2003 Volume 58 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial
‘Hezekiah was sick and near death, and he prayed to the Lord; and He spoke to him and gave him a sign. But Hezekiah did not repay according to the favour shown him for his heart was lifted up’ 2 Chr. …
Ken Rudge
2002 Volume 57 Issue 4
Editorial
Editorial
The greatest of all pursuits must be the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. The easier knowledge is always the academic and theoretical one. The one that actually effects the way we live, our motives…
Ken Rudge
2002 Volume 57 Issue 3
Editorial
Editorial
‘REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE’, Luke 17. 25. The Lord provides no amplification of this reference to Lot’s wife. He just calls upon His hearers to ‘remember’ her. It is therefore the context of that which He i…
Ken Rudge
2002 Volume 57 Issue 2
Editorial
Editorial
As we face yet another year of pilgrimage, one of the greatest needs that confront us as individuals or as local churches, is to evangelize. In the words of Scripture although not in the context of go…
Ken Rudge
2002 Volume 57 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial
The events of the past month will not be easily forgotten. Even now the silent images of the jet aircraft, as they hurtled into the World Trade Organisation’s twin towers, remain an undying imprint fo…
Ken Rudge
2001 Volume 56 Issue 4
Editorial
Editorial
The Precious Seed Magazine was first published as an eight page, black and white pamphlet, produced under the severe restrictions of paper shortages as a result of the Second World War. The first issu…
Ken Rudge
2001 Volume 56 Issue 3
Editorial
Editorial
‘I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, which is a servant of the church’, Rom. 16. 1. Demetrius hath a good report of all men … we also bear record’, 3 John 12. Just before their wedding day the youn…
Ken Rudge
2005 Volume 60 Issue 3
Editorial
Editorial
We probably feel that Moses had every good reason to run away from this rod that had suddenly become a serpent! But the incident was the Lord’s response to Moses’ own expressions of doubt about the wo…
Ken Rudge
2005 Volume 60 Issue 2
Editorial
Editorial
‘But she of her want did cast in all that she had’, Mark 12. 44. It is with mixed feelings that I approach the writing of this my final editor’s comment for the Precious Seed magazine. The demands of …
Ken Rudge
2009 Volume 64 Issue 2
Editorial
Editorial
‘The scribes and the Pharisees … whatsoever they bid you observe that observe and do; but do ye not after their works’, Matt. 23. 2, 3. The Lord’s warning to the disciples with regard to the religiou…
Ken Rudge
2009 Volume 64 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial
Afterward he appeared to the eleven … and upbraided them with their unbelief’, Mark 16. 14. The reading of Mark’s concluding chapter to his gospel is most challenging as well as disappointing. Twice h…
Ken Rudge
2008 Volume 63 Issue 4
Editorial
Editorial
‘This heap is a witness between me and thee’, Gen. 31. 44. ‘God is witness between me and thee’, Gen. 31. 50. The thirty-first chapter of Genesis reveals the deep rift that existed between Laban and J…
Ken Rudge
2008 Volume 63 Issue 3
Editorial
Editorial
I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God, and said, ‘O my God, I am ashamed and blush’, Ezra 9. 5-6. There is no doubt that Ezra was a prepared man for the task he was to pe…
Ken Rudge
2008 Volume 63 Issue 2
Editorial
Editorial
‘And he (Elijah) repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down’, 1 Kgs. 18. 30. At times we utterly fail to appreciate the immense contribution to our faith made by Old Testament saints. We lit…
Ken Rudge
2008 Volume 63 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial
‘Take unto thee sweet spices … the perfume … shall be … holy for the Lord’, Exod. 30. 34, 37. For many years now ministry taking up the minute details of the instructions to Moses regarding the tabe…
Ken Rudge
2007 Volume 62 Issue 4
Editorial
Editorial
‘The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth’, 2 John 1. The first thing that caught my attention was that this ‘love’ John is speaking of is ‘in truth’ rather than ‘in the trut…
Ken Rudge
2007 Volume 62 Issue 3
Editorial
Editorial
‘When the LORD brought back the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream’. ‘Bring back our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south’, Ps. 126. 1, 4. In the above quotations from Psalm 1…
Ken Rudge
2007 Volume 62 Issue 2
Editorial
Editorial
‘And they sang together … praising and giving thanks unto the Lord … But many wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy’, Ezra 3. 11, 12. If the laying down of the Temple foundations pro…
Ken Rudge
2007 Volume 62 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial
‘And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren’, Acts 7. 23. Quite a remarkable statement this! It has to do with the time – ‘when he was full forty years old’, th…
Ken Rudge
2006 Volume 61 Issue 4
Editorial
Editorial
‘But … he had compassion on him and went to him’, Luke 10. 33, 34 I am writing this editorial sitting in the dinning room of the home of our sister Ruth Hadley in Saurimo, Angola. For the first time …
Ken Rudge
2006 Volume 61 Issue 3
Editorial
Editorial
‘Behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne’, Rev. 4. 2. The more our society becomes segregated, disenchanted, fractious and tormented by dissidents, the more we need to know abo…
Ken Rudge
2006 Volume 61 Issue 2
Editorial
Editorial
‘And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them, Luke 24. 50. Once again we commence a New Year and, as we turn our minds to what may be in store for us in ano…
Ken Rudge
2006 Volume 61 Issue 1
Editorial
Editorial
Jesus answering said unto him, ‘Simon I have somewhat to say unto thee’, Luke 7. 40. Jesus ‘answering’ … but Simon had not asked any questions! He had made some judgemental remarks in his mind though…
Ken Rudge
2005 Volume 60 Issue 4
Editorial
Gospel Work and Other Activities
NORTHERN IRELAND ANTRIM A number of unsaved were attending gospel meetings held at Ahoghill when R. McKeown and W. Martin were there. Some have been saved through the witness in the portable hall at D…
Ken Rudge
2000 Volume 55 Issue 1
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
EIRE The annual Postal Bible School holiday week, conducted by Noel and Liza McMeekin, and held in Avoca, was attended by one hundred and two of the students, two of whom professed faith in the Lord J…
Ken Rudge
2000 Volume 55 Issue 4
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
IRELAND CO. CORK The three small assemblies in Co. Cork were greatly encouraged as they held their fifty-fifth Annual Conference for ministry in Bandon Grammar School over the St. Patrick’s Day Bank H…
Ken Rudge
2000 Volume 55 Issue 2
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
EIRE CO. LIMERICK Continue to pray for the work of the evangelistic teams at work in Limerick and Enniscorthy over the summer months. John and Linda Standfield are in the process of enlarging their ho…
Ken Rudge
2000 Volume 55 Issue 3
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
EIRE David and Kay Stevens have used the summer opportunities to preach the gospel many times and are grateful to the Lord for the frequent openings this has provided to speak in depth to people about…
Ken Rudge
2001 Volume 56 Issue 1
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
EIRE CO. CORK Sadly, the annual Bandon Conference meetings had to be postponed almost at the last minute, due to the precautions needful on account of the spread of foot and mouth disease. They are no…
Ken Rudge
2001 Volume 56 Issue 2
Report
Gospel Work and Other Assembly Activities – January-March 1999
‘Give ye them to eat’, Mark 6. 37. Thus the Lord, at a moment of intense pressure and amidst their feelings of inadequacy, challenges the disciples to look at their resources to meet a difficult need …
Ken Rudge
1999 Volume 54 Issue 1
Report
In the Days of Elijah
Thoughts on some of the ‘remnant companies’ of scripture It would seem that in every time of departure and decline spiritually, God has been pleased to preserve for Himself a faithful ‘remnant’. Thes…
Ken Rudge
2022 Volume 77 Issue 4
Exhortation
Mark Chapter 16
Mary Magdalene and the women, vv. 1, 2 The women who came to the tomb were both practical and devotional in their commitment to the Lord Jesus. The repeated witness of scripture to their actions is a …
Ken Rudge
2023 Volume 78 Issue 4
Devotional
Millennium Matters
In the past few issues of the magazine we have asked for contributions concerning any preparations that use the occasion of the transfer from the second to the third Millennium for special gospel/teac…
Ken Rudge
1999 Volume 54 Issue 3
Contemporary Issues
My Responsibility to the Local Church
Coming as I did from a Church of England background, there was a lot for me to come to terms with when I was first introduced to a local Christian assembly. In some ways, however, I did not find the c…
Ken Rudge
1981 Volume 32 Issue 6
Young People’s and Bible Students’ Section
Out of Necessity Came Nurture
Over the years the Lord had consistently blessed the gospel testimony of the assembly at St. Austell to the point that there were a number of middle-aged adults who had professed faith in Christ and h…
Ken Rudge
1998 Volume 53 Issue 4
Exposition
Revival – God’s Emergency Plan
REVIVAL – THE TERMINOLOGY There are seven terms used to express the truth that underpins the experience and some we can group together as having similar concepts. ‘Visitation’ or ‘Quickening’. These …
Ken Rudge
2002 Volume 57 Issue 4
Exposition
Seymour Gospel Hall
SLADES ROAD, ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL Some years ago now I was sent the following extract from a journal that had been written in about 1950 concerning the beginnings of assembly testimony in the town of…
Ken Rudge
2005 Volume 60 Issue 1
History
The Holy Spirit and the Gospel
We now look at the operations of the Holy Spirit of God as He sovereignly directs the purposes of God through the gospel for this age. We shall do so in five sections as follows:1. The Age of the Spir…
Ken Rudge
1997 Volume 52 Issue 5
Exposition
The Two Beasts of Revelation 13; Satan’s Master Delusion
We are living in unnerving times. Daily our society produces items of news that provide us, as believers, with an ever deepening concern regarding just where we are heading and what will be next. Perh…
Ken Rudge
Prophetic Insights
1999 Volume 54 Issue 2
Devotional
Turkey – Cradle of New Testament Christianity
The covers of the 1998 Precious Seed magazine feature pictures from a visit paid to the sites of the seven churches in Asia during the summer of 1996. They are of course in Turkey – long a forbidden l…
Ken Rudge
1998 Volume 53 Issue 1
Contemporary Issues
What about Spiritual Gifts?
Sooner or later all young believers come up against the subject of spiritual gifts. This may arise because someone is urging them to “use their gift”, or simply because a reference is made to some “gi…
Ken Rudge
1985 Volume 36 Issue 3
Exposition
Wise words from the book of Proverbs
‘For him that is joined to all living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion’, Eccles. 9. 4. To understand where Solomon is coming from in the Ecclesiastes is to realize that he is…
Ken Rudge
Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World
2006 Volume 61 Issue 3
Young Precious Seed
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