“search the scriptures” John 5:39

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2005 Volume 60 Issue 3
Articles in this Issue
Are you fully covered?
A word about insurance Having been saved at age 15, I entered the insurance profession the following year. I became an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute by examination, and was a Chartered …
Robert Greenman
Contemporary Issues
Baruch
the Preaching Scribe or ‘I cannot go … you go’, Jer. 36. 1-6. He had never done anything like this before! Baruch was a scribe, deft with scroll and pen, and with limitless patience to spell out, lette…
Gordon L. Bissett
Exposition
Bearing One Another’s Burdens
- the blessing of a caring assembly Christianity is Christ and Christ is Care The Lord Jesus’ invitation is still being heard and heeded, ‘Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I wi…
Tom Wilson (1)
Exposition
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 young …
Ken Rudge
Editorial
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 li…
Stephen Baker
Report
He Was Delivered Up
Who Was Responsible for the Death of Christ Introductory There are about sixty references in the New Testament to the Lord Jesus being ‘delivered up’, or ‘betrayed’; both of these English terms represen…
J. Wesley Ferguson
Exposition
How should a believer deal with depression?
Question How should a believer deal with depression? Answer Depression is a common mental disorder; one source estimates that it disrupts the lives of up to 15% of those living in the Western world at s…
Howard Coles
Question Time
Is God ever unkind?
Of all the attributes that God possesses, the things that make Him who He is, which would you think was His most glorious? His omnipotence, perhaps, being able to do anything, or His omniscience, in tha…
Ian Rees
Your God is too small !!!
Young Precious Seed
Jacob at Bethel
Genesis 28. 10-22 PART 1 Jacob had set out on a journey of 500 miles from Beersheba in the south of Israel to Haran in Mesopotamia (modern day Turkey, near the Syrian border). He had travelled about 50 …
Malcolm Horlock
Behold
Exposition
Jerusalem
CITY OF THE GREAT KING The first reference to Jerusalem in scripture is Genesis chapter 14 verse 18 and it is in relation to Melchizedek who is called king of Salem, city of peace. Further references to…
Drew Craig
Exposition
My yoke is easy, and My burden is light
Matt. 11. 30. Beware of the ‘one size fits all’ mentality. We may all be saved by grace, but we each have a different journey: a personal one pre-planned by God. You’ll have grace only for the assignmen…
UBC World for Today, Daily Reading
Exposition
Studies in 2 Thessalonians
Chapter 3. 6 – 18 vv. 6 – 15 ABNORMALITIES Verse 6. Paul now turns to prevalent internal problems that are clearly disturbing the testimony and indeed the harmony of the Thessalonian assembly. This comp…
Tom Bentley
Studies in 2 Thessalonians
Study
Tape Teaching
My interest in recording tapes began in the early 1960’s, when I was doing an electrical apprenticeship in Belfast and attending Windsor Gospel Hall. Their Missionary Conference was coming up and I thou…
Joseph Skelly
Organisations
Ten things God won’t ask on that day
‘Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in the body, accor…
Unknown
Exposition
The Attire of an Harlot
‘And there a woman met him with the attire of a harlot and a crafty heart’, Prov. 7. 10. Women who pursue what is called the world’s oldest profession dress in a way to advertise their wares. They are s…
Donald L. Norbie
Exposition
The Fruit of the Spirit is Peace
Gal. 5. 22-23 ‘Peace on earth, goodwill to all men’. That was the message of the angels to the shepherds at Bethlehem. But the coming of Jesus did not bring peace on earth and wars have raged throughout…
Bernard Osborne
The Fruit Of The Spirit
Exposition
The House of God
3) Harmony in the House of God This is certainly a matter that needs our attention in these days of strife and contention. Remember when there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot, it grieve…
Peter Davies
The House of God
Exposition
The Valley of the Shadow
This is Grace’s story. She was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1989. She was a beautiful, sweet-natured girl who was well loved by her peers. Her face always glowed with unusual warmth and vivacity and her …
Unknown
Young Precious Seed
Through a Mother’s Eye
While visiting our daughter, who recently married a Canadian and had set up their new home in Canada, I found myself drawn to a cross-stitch picture hanging on the fireplace wall of their lounge. It was…
Jesse Webb
Exposition
Understanding what the Bible means
‘What saith the scripture’? In this second article we consider a number of principles that help us correctly to understand the meaning of Scripture. 1. Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy Understanding the me…
Andrew Wilson
Young Precious Seed
Wise words from the book of Job
Better a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith Which of us has not preferred a simple meal with good companions to a feast with those with whom we do not get on? The force…
Ian Rees
Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World
Young Precious Seed
Book Reviews in this Issue
A Year with Your Children in the Bible
Jim Cromarty. Hardback, 740 pp, Published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH. Price £18.95, ISBN 0 85234 518 6 Most family devotions books have been published in North America …
Jim Cromarty
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The John Ritchie Library
Prior to his homecall, our esteemed brother Mr. Denis Gilpin had a great interest in establishing a library at Kilmarnock of all John Ritchie publications. It was his desire, that when completed, the li…
John Scarsbrook
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