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Stephen Baker
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Bits & Bobs
We’ll force gay youth workers on churches, says Government The Government says its new Equality Bill will force churches to accept practising homosexuals or trans-sexuals in youth worker posts and oth…
Stephen Baker
2009 Volume 64 Issue 3
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Bits & Bobs
Britain gets first atheist summer camp for children An atheist alternative to Scout and Scripture Union camps is being subsidised by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. Twenty-four children took p…
Stephen Baker
2009 Volume 64 Issue 4
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Bits & Bobs
QUAKE CLAIMS WORSHIPPERS AT PRAYERAt least 17 worshippers died and over 200 were trapped as two churches collapsed in a massive earthquake in Peru in August 2007. Falling masonry in the Senor de Luren…
Stephen Baker
2007 Volume 62 Issue 4
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Bits & Bobs
CHINA ARRESTS 270 UNDERGROUND PROTESTANT PASTORS Chinese police forces recently arrested 270 Protestant house church pastors in an eastern province, reported a Chinese Christian human rights organisat…
Stephen Baker
2008 Volume 63 Issue 1
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Bits & Bobs
Thumbs up for permanent Catholic–Muslim forum Pope Benedict XVl has given the green light to establishing a continuing Catholic– Muslim Forum, with its first summit meeting set for November. The pione…
Stephen Baker
2008 Volume 63 Issue 2
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Bits & Bobs
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS VIEWS ON VALUES Around two in every three adults think religious and spiritual values are important in a child’s development, according to a Children’s Society poll. But in the sur…
Stephen Baker
2008 Volume 63 Issue 4
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Bits & Bobs
CREATIONISM BIOLOGIST LOSES JOB A leading biologist who claimed that Creationism should be taught in school science lessons has lost his job at the Royal Society as a result. The Rev. Professor Michae…
Stephen Baker
2009 Volume 64 Issue 1
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Bits & Bobs
SOFTWARE FIRM GIVES NEW WINGS TO MAF A specialist mission relief agency, whose planes fly aid, missionaries and development workers to thousands of remote spots around the world, has received a £1 mil…
Stephen Baker
2009 Volume 64 Issue 2
Report
Bits & Bobs
NO-GO AREA FOR BIRMINGHAM STREET PREACHERS Two evangelical ministers claim police threatened to arrest them for ‘hate crime’ for evangelizing in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham. Arthur Cunni…
Stephen Baker
2008 Volume 63 Issue 3
Report
Bits and Bobs
Harry Potter As the latest Harry Potter film hits cinemas, one writer is warning Christians that something sinister lurks beneath the wizardry and hocus-pocus. Steve Wohlberg, the author of the new bo…
Stephen Baker
2011 Volume 66 Issue 1
Report
Discipline is Exercised
Most societies operate within set structures, rules are drawn up and the consequences of breaking the rules are clearly stated. So it is with a local church. The basic proposition is that ‘An Assembly…
Stephen Baker
An Assembly of the Lord’s people will be a people among whom …
2019 Volume 74 Issue 3
Assembly Principles
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Dartmoor Christian Camp This camp is run by believers from Whipton Chapel, Exeter, and Belmont Hall, Harrow. They see the summer camp week as an activity that builds on the…
Stephen Baker
2007 Volume 62 Issue 4
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND The believers in Guildford have been inviting people to a gospel outreach course in the Gospel Hall. They report about a man called ‘J’ who came to the Gospel Hall after seeing the invitation …
Stephen Baker
2005 Volume 60 Issue 1
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Ian Campbell came to the assembly in Bicester for a week of children’s meetings and school visits during January 2005. About forty-five children gathered each night for a we…
Stephen Baker
2005 Volume 60 Issue 2
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Towcester is a town where there is no Gospel Hall. On Easter Saturday twentysix young people from various assemblies gathered in the town to distribute ‘Seed Sowers’ gospel …
Stephen Baker
2005 Volume 60 Issue 3
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND Midlands and South For the past thirteen years Eastbourne Borough Council has staged ‘AIRBOURNE - ‘The UK’s biggest seafront airshow’. The local press claim that over the four-day period of th…
Stephen Baker
2005 Volume 60 Issue 4
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND Midlands and South Eastbourne The assembly at Eastbourne held a one-day seminar for young people in November 2005 addressing the subjects of witnessing, prayer and Bible study. J. B.Nicholson …
Stephen Baker
2006 Volume 61 Issue 1
Exposition
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH FOCUS PRISON WORK This report is by Keith Sherwood. Keith is a believer living in Hemel Hempstead. He has been visiting his local prison once or twice a week since 1988, wh…
Stephen Baker
2006 Volume 61 Issue 2
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH An outreach in Towcester (Northamptonshire) was well supported by local assemblies. Dozens of unsaved were present to hear Ian Jackson of Eastbourne speak on ‘Can an Intell…
Stephen Baker
2006 Volume 61 Issue 3
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Bicester Four weeks of tent meetings took place in a park in Bicester from 23rd July until 20th August. Leslie Craig from Northern Ireland conducted children’s meetings in …
Stephen Baker
2006 Volume 61 Issue 4
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Airbourne 2006 – Eastbourne ‘The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad’, Ps. 77. 17. August saw four days outreach at the UK’s …
Stephen Baker
2007 Volume 62 Issue 1
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH The following report was received from Steve and Judy Buckeridge Bible Distribution Report We have been distributing Bibles now for five years and in that time approximatel…
Stephen Baker
2007 Volume 62 Issue 2
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Spencer Bridge Road Gospel Hall, Northampton The Ayrshire Bible Exhibition returned to Spencer Bridge Road, Northampton, for the fifth time for two weeks in March this year…
Stephen Baker
2007 Volume 62 Issue 3
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Winshill Gospel Hall, Burton on Trent The believers in the assembly in Winshill had the privilege of hosting the Ayrshire Bible Exhibition during the first few days of Nove…
Stephen Baker
2008 Volume 63 Issue 1
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Holiday Bible Club at Manor Road, Guildford In preparation for the Holiday Bible Club the believers in Guildford visited four schools and gave out over one thousand leaflet…
Stephen Baker
2008 Volume 63 Issue 2
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
I know that it is unusual for me to write an editorial for this section of the magazine but I really feel that I must as there is so much encouraging news around but not all of it is captured in the r…
Stephen Baker
2008 Volume 63 Issue 3
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Bethany Chapel, Lyme Regis Last February we reported in this magazine the annual door to door calendar distribution in Lyme Regis. Last December, one door knocked for that …
Stephen Baker
2008 Volume 63 Issue 4
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH The very first London Young People’s Day was held on the 4th October. 2008. It was the result of a number of young believers wanting to have a day studying the scriptures a…
Stephen Baker
2009 Volume 64 Issue 1
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
HOLIDAY BIBLE CLUB AT GUILDFORD REPORT The assembly at Guildford organized a ‘Pyramid Rock’ Holiday Bible Club during the February Half-Term Holiday, for children aged aged from five to eleven years. …
Stephen Baker
2009 Volume 64 Issue 2
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Cheltenham and Gloucester The believers in Cheltenham and Gloucester report that their winter series of Saturday rallies were really encouraging. Excellent ministry was giv…
Stephen Baker
2009 Volume 64 Issue 3
Report
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Eastbourne – ‘The Airbourne Air Show’ ‘Airbourne’ is a four-day air show which takes place every each year on the seafront at Eastbourne. Many thousands of people, both loc…
Stephen Baker
2009 Volume 64 Issue 4
Report
Is it possible to be a Christian, believe God and still be a thinking person?
Question Is it possible to be a Christian, believe God and still be a thinking person? Answer Christians are often challenged by intellectuals who say that because they believe what the Bible says and…
Stephen Baker
2006 Volume 61 Issue 1
Question Time
Is suffering evidence that God does not care?
Question Is suffering evidence that God does not care? Answer When people suffer they often question whether God really cares. This is a natural reaction as nobody likes to be in pain or to have disco…
Stephen Baker
2007 Volume 62 Issue 1
Question Time
Love in Marriage
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Which came first, love or marriage? The first question is not the subject of this article but the book of Genesis tells us that God made every animal so the c…
Stephen Baker
2007 Volume 62 Issue 4
Exposition
Naboth and His Inheritance
This is one of many exciting stories in the Bible but sadly it has a tragic outcome. Kings in ancient times were despotic and powerful, and there seemed to be little that the ‘man in the street’ could…
Stephen Baker
The Life and Times of Elijah the Prophet
2024 Volume 79 Issue 2
Study
Pauline Metaphors – Part 7: Sowing and Reaping
Introduction The idea of sowing and reaping may be unfamiliar to someone living in a non-rural community in the 21st century, but it was a normal part of everyday life in the ancient world. The Apostl…
Stephen Baker
Studies in Pauline Metaphors
2023 Volume 78 Issue 3
Study
Question Time
Question What does the word ‘apologetics’ mean? Answer Firstly, we need to define the term apologetics. One definition says it is ‘the branch of theology that is concerned with defending or proving th…
Stephen Baker
2009 Volume 64 Issue 2
Question Time
Question Time
Question The Breaking of Bread – When and where? Answer Most of us live busy lives and it is good at times to be able to get away and relax. When we are away does it really matter if we ‘remember the …
Stephen Baker
2008 Volume 63 Issue 4
Question Time
Question Time
Question Why did God create the church? Answer Firstly, it is good to remind ourselves that the concept of the church was not developed by believers. It was given to us by the Lord Jesus Himself. When…
Stephen Baker
2008 Volume 63 Issue 1
Question Time
Question Time
Question Saved then lost – is it possible? Answer There is a belief floating about that people who have been saved can lose their salvation. Our standard for teaching must always be the word of God. S…
Stephen Baker
2009 Volume 64 Issue 3
Question Time
The Eternal State (Published May 2022)
Introduction Most fairy tales end with the words ‘and they lived happily ever after’. Many people dream of better days, utopia and conditions that are idyllic. In response to this, the realist says, ‘…
Stephen Baker
What Does the Bible Tell Us About the Future?
2022 Volume 77 Issue 2
Prophecy
The God of the Second Chance – The Story of how God Called Me
As I start to tell how God made me aware of what He wanted me to do with the rest of my life – preach the gospel and teach the Bible – I must warn you that this is a very personal issue. You might not…
Stephen Baker
2015 Volume 70 Issue 2
Testimony
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 5: Chapter 1 vv 9-10
This article is part of an ongoing study. The writer’s intention is to look at each phrase and statement in the letter and to glean a simple understanding of what Paul was writing to Titus about. Ther…
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
2016 Volume 71 Issue 4
Devotional
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 6: Chapter 1 vv 10-16
This article is part of an ongoing study. The writer’s intention is to look at each phrase and statement in the letter and to glean a simple understanding of what Paul was writing to Titus about. Ther…
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
2017 Volume 72 Issue 1
Exposition
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 7: Chapter 2 vv 1-9
This article is part of an on-going study. The writer’s intention is to look at each phrase and statement in the letter and to glean a simple understanding of what Paul was writing to Titus about. The…
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
2017 Volume 72 Issue 2
Exposition
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 1: Chapter 1 v 1
The Epistle (letter) to Titus, though short, is full of practical teaching about local church life and the personal behaviour of believers. In essence, it is a manual containing truth and training for…
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
2015 Volume 70 Issue 4
Exposition
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 10: Chapter 3 vv 8-11
This article is part of an ongoing study. The writer’s intention is to look at each phrase and statement in the letter and to glean a simple understanding of what Paul was writing to Titus about. It m…
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
2018 Volume 73 Issue 1
Exposition
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 11
This article is the final part of these studies. The writer’s intention has been to look at each phrase and statement in the letter, and to glean a simple understanding of what Paul was writing to Tit…
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
2018 Volume 73 Issue 2
Exposition
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 2: Chapter 1 vv 2-4
This article is part of an on-going study in which the writer’s intention is to look at each phrase and statement in the letter and to glean a simple understanding of what Paul was writing to Titus ab…
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
2016 Volume 71 Issue 1
Exposition
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 3: Chapter 1 v 5
This article is part of an ongoing study. The writer’s intention is to look at each phrase and statement in the letter and to glean a simple understanding of what Paul was writing to Titus about. Ther…
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
2016 Volume 71 Issue 2
Exposition
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 4: Chapter 1 vv 6-8
This article is part of an on-going study. The writer’s intention is to look at each phrase and statement in the letter and to glean a simple understanding of what Paul was writing to Titus about. The…
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
2016 Volume 71 Issue 3
Devotional
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 8: Chapter 2 vv 9-16
This article is part of an on-going study. The writer’s intention is to look at each phrase and statement in the letter and to glean a simple understanding of what Paul was writing to Titus about. It …
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
2017 Volume 72 Issue 3
Exposition
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 9: Chapter 3 vv 1-8
This article is part of an on-going study. The writer’s intention is to look at each phrase and statement in the letter and to glean a simple understanding of what Paul was writing to Titus about. It …
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
2017 Volume 72 Issue 4
Exposition
Views from the News
CHRISTIAN PREACHER WINS RIGHT TO TAKE CASE TO EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE A Christian preacher has won the right to have his case referred to the European Court of Justice following an accusation that a…
Stephen Baker
2009 Volume 64 Issue 4
Report
Views from the News
The purpose of this page is to make believers aware of major developments that are taking place in the world today that may adversely affect Christians or their freedom to live and spread the gospel. …
Stephen Baker
2007 Volume 62 Issue 3
Report
Views from the News
China denounces USA Criticism of Religious FreedomChina recently denounced a USA report accusing it of curbing religious freedoms as groundless and an interference in its internal affairs. In an annua…
Stephen Baker
2007 Volume 62 Issue 4
Report
Views from the News
CHINA PRODUCES A BIBLE PER SECOND AS PEOPLE TURN TO CHRISTIANITY The Bible has become a ‘best-seller’ in China, with 50 million copies produced so far by the country’s only authorized Bible printer, A…
Stephen Baker
2008 Volume 63 Issue 1
Report
Views from the News
UP TO DATE STATISTICS ON WORLDWIDE PERSECUTION OF BELIEVERS This year’s No.1 spot on Open Doors’ 2008 World Watch List is no stranger: North Korea has now topped the list for six years in a row. There…
Stephen Baker
2008 Volume 63 Issue 2
Report
Views from the News
The following article is by Martin Beckford at www.Telegraph.co.uk. The majority of the text is quoted despite its source being a churchman (with whom our readership would have clear differences of op…
Stephen Baker
2008 Volume 63 Issue 3
Report
Views from the News
Police officer discriminated against for traditional beliefs PC Graham Cogman, has taken his police force to an Employment Tribunal on grounds of harassment because of his traditional Christian values…
Stephen Baker
2008 Volume 63 Issue 4
Report
Views from the News
CHRISTIAN FIRED FOR NOT ADVISING GAYS ON SEX A Christian relationships counsellor says he was sacked by Relate for admitting a crisis of conscience over giving sex advice to gay couples. According to …
Stephen Baker
2009 Volume 64 Issue 1
Report
Views from the News
CONFLICT ON COMMUNITY RADIO STATION Mahboob Masih, a church minister from East Kilbride, is taking legal action after being dismissed from hosting his radio programme for the manner in which Christian…
Stephen Baker
2009 Volume 64 Issue 2
Report
Views from the News
NURSE WITH FORTY YEARS EXPERIENCE SACKED FOR SUGGESTING A PATIENT ‘GO TO CHURCH’ TO RELIEVE STRESS A NHS Nurse with over forty years experience has been sacked after he suggested two ‘patients’ might …
Stephen Baker
2009 Volume 64 Issue 3
Report
What Does the Bible Tell Us About the Future? – Part 1: the Last Days of the Church on Earth
A very high percentage of the Bible is about the future. Some people estimate that over a quarter of the Bible deals with future events. Having said that, we need to bear in mind that the truth of the…
Stephen Baker
What Does the Bible Tell Us About the Future?
2018 Volume 73 Issue 4
Devotional
Why bother going to all of the meetings?
Question Why bother going to all of the meetings? Answer Life is busy! Time is money! It’s expensive to live in our society! Christians should be hard working and put in the hours! We must spend time …
Stephen Baker
2007 Volume 62 Issue 3
Question Time
Why do I keep on making the same mistakes time after time?
Question Why do I keep on making the same mistakes time after time? Answer If you are like me you will constantly be making the same mistakes and often doing things time and time again that you know a…
Stephen Baker
2006 Volume 61 Issue 3
Question Time
Why Is Gospel Literature Important in a Digital World?
This is a good question! We live in a world where people access information in many different ways. Despite the rapid rise of communication via digital means, it is surprising that so much of our info…
Stephen Baker
2024 Volume 79 Issue 2
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