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2002 Volume 57 Issue 3
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Bethesda Hall
ANG MO KIO, SINGAPORE Note: The assembly presently meeting at Bethesda Hall (Ang Mo Kio) originally met at Bras Basah Road from 1866-1986 Singapore Singapore was founded in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles…
Samuel Wee
Report
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 a…
Ken Rudge
Editorial
Error In The Early Church
How can a study of ancient theological battles possibly be of use to me in my Christian life in the twenty-first century? After all these things must be long dead and buried, and even if they aren’t, wh…
Keith Bintley
Early Church History
History
God … who has delivered us … and does delived … will also yet deliver.
The word ‘deliver’ can, in different settings, be used with two totally different meanings. In one sense, ‘to deliver up’, means to hand over. The Lord Jesus for instance warns His disciples that ‘men w…
Dennis S. Parrack
Exposition
Gospel Work and Other Activities
NORTHERN IRELAND CO DOWNComber S. Jennings and G. Ewing concluded five weeks’ gospel meetings on 24th March, marked by a great prayerful interest, with liberty in the preaching. A fair number of locals …
Colin Hutchinson
Report
He Giveth Quietness
‘Quiet from fear of evil’, Lord give us this to know,To Thy blest words to hearken,And Thou wilt peace bestow;Thy blessed peace, Lord Jesus,Thou wouldst indeed impartTo those who hear Thee speaking,Who …
Moments with the Book
Poetry
MSC Canada
Each of the various missionary service groups associated with the assemblies had a different beginning. The half dozen or so in the English-speaking world, and the two dozen or so in other countries, ea…
Patrick Long
Organisations
Our Singing God
It is striking that while there are numerous mentions of singing in the Scriptures and nine references to a ‘New Song’; there are only four references to God Himself singing. The context of each occurre…
Tom Wilson (2)
Exposition
Poured out to God
The drink offering, normally offered with the meal and burnt offerings, was celebrated by completely pouring out a quantity of wine at the base of the altar. None of it was to be consumed. Wine is symbo…
George Ferrier
Exposition
Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I will say, rejoice!
Philippians chapter 4 verse 4 says ‘Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I will say rejoice’. This has been my motto for as long as I can remember. Paul wrote this from prison, so we know this attitude…
Ron Van Holst
A Personal Account of a Deeply Moving Family Experience
Testimony
Signs of Faith
SHOULD WE REQUIRE SIGNS OF FAITH? Are there recognisable signs that saving faith and regeneration have occurred? John, in his first epistle, chapter two, verse three, clearly informs us that we may inde…
Peter Hedley
Faith
Exposition
So much Better than the Angels
The title of this study is taken from the letter to the Hebrews. It is found in chapter 1, verse 4. The word ‘better’ is one of the key words of the letter and occurs thirteen times, interest-ingly once…
Malcolm Horlock
So much Better than the Angels
Exposition
Studies in 1 Thessalonians
CHAPTER 5. 1-28. THE WORD CONFIRMING THE SANCTIFIED OUTLINE 1. 5. 1-11 THE ARRIVAL OF FINAL SALVATION 2. 5. 12-22THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF FAITHFUL SERVICE 3. 5. 23-27THE ATTAINMENT OF FULL SANCTIFICATION…
Tom Bentley
Studies in 1 Thessalonians
Study
The Benefits of Belonging
‘Blessed are those who dwell in Your house; they are ever praising You’ Psalm 84. 4 NIV. Did you hear about the man who was shipwrecked and discovered many years after on a desert island? He’d built th…
Keith Clayton
Exposition
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995
We have all rejoiced in the gospel truth expressed in the words of the hymn writer: ‘Whosoever will may come’. It will soon be our duty under the terms of the Act that forms the title of this article to…
John Bennett
Organisations
Therapy Est
EST has been advertised as ‘a powerful and practical inquiry into the issues that determine our personal effectiveness’. The late singer John Denver was reputed to have said of his EST encounters, ‘It i…
Paul Young
Contemporary Issues
Walking with God
The Obituary Notice of a Saint ‘And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him’, Gen. 5. 24. As a former editor and journalist I sometimes had to write obituary notices. Describing people w…
Tor Marius Gauslaa
Exposition
Where did evil originate?
Question Where did evil originate? Answer This question is asked quite often by persons who say blasphemously that as God is the creator of all things He must in the first place have created evil. To ba…
Howard Coles
Question Time
Book Reviews in this Issue
Day by Day – Christ Foreshadowed
‘GLIMPSES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT’ The next book in the ever popular Day by Day series will be published in time for Christmas and the New Year and will be available from Precious Seed for delivery in Nove…
Ivan Steeds
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The End of The Nation
Studies in the book of Obadiah. By Paul Young. 72pp, £2.00 (incl. p. and p.) published by the author, 33 Kings Terrace, Nantyffyllon, Maesteg, Mid. Glamorgan, CF34 OHD. ISBN 0-9523478-4-9. Obadiah hol…
Paul Young
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What the Bible Teaches – Psalms
By Jim Flanigan. 640pp. £17.95, published by John Ritchie Ltd, 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, Scotland KA3 1RH. ISBN 1-904064-02-07. The publication of this weighty volume provides the second in the series…
Jim Flanigan
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