Articles for the Issue –

A brief history of Jalan Imbi Chapel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1 Corinthians 8

We are now continuing the exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians taking up the section of the letter contained in chapters 8 to 11. 1 Corinthians 8 – Part 1 INTRODUCTION It was well nigh im…

Malcolm Horlock

Studies in 1 Corinthians

Study

Assembly History Early assembly missionaries from Plymouth, England, arrived in Kuala Lumpur in 1891 and Bluff Road Gospel Hall was built in 1897. For the next twenty-five years the witness grew and the…

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History

A History of Precious Seed

It is hard to believe that the work of Precious Seed Committee has been going for sixty years. In 1945 several meetings were held in Taunton, Devon, for prayerful consideration of the situation which th…

Michael Jones

History

A Selection of letters

Over the years the Lord’s people have often seen fit to encourage and thank the committee for the production of the magazine. Needless to say but this has been a stimulant to us to keep serving the sain…

Applying the Scriptures

There are two dangerous extremes in Bible reading. The first is to study the Bible academically as if it consisted only of ideas to be understood.The second is to read the Bible impressionistically as i…

Andrew Wilson

Congratulations!!

Here are some 60th anniversary congratulations we have received from friends around the world: ‘We send our warm congratulations to Precious Seed on reaching 60 years of continuous publication. Over thi…

Creation Evangelism

Origins It was in 1859 that Charles Robert Darwin published his renowned book, The Origin of Species, in which he outlined his theory of natural selection, or as Herbert Spencer defined it, ‘the surviva…

Ian Campbell

Devotional

THE TRUE PEACEMAKER AND BENEFACTOR OF THE PEOPLE (1950) BY DR. DAVID GOODING, IPSWICH, ENGLAND False Peacemakers Chapters 22 and 23 of Luke are filled with ideas of peace and provision. The priests pose…

Dispensational

THE TIME OF THE RAPTURE (1956) BY E. J. STRANGE, B.A., CHARD, ENGLAND We have in past papers sketched in outline the prophetic vision of the Old Testament and seen its fulfilment in Christ. We have hear…

Divine Healing

There are three methods by which God heals human sicknesses: by natural means; by medical means; and by miraculous intervention. Healing by natural means When God created man, He incorporated into our …

John E. Todd

Doctrinal

LEGALITY AND THE LORD‘S SUPPER (1950) BY HARRY LACEY, CARDIFF, WALES Why this article? Readers who are fortunate enough to have been left undisturbed to enjoy the remembrance of the Lord in simplicity w…

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

Editorial

Expositional

THE OVERCOMER AND THE EARTHDWELLER IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION (1968) BY T. ERNEST WILSON, NEW JERSEY, USA The letters to the seven churches in Revelation 2-3 introduce four symbolic expressions indicatin…

Ezekiel the Messenger

There is no doubt about it Ezekiel is not the most favoured book of the Bible. It has a complex message and is full of symbols and parables along with prophetic utterances that are not easy to unravel. …

Dennis Pierce

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 the …

Stephen Baker

Harmony in God’s Family

Division is a common feature of human experience The world’s culture is marked by wars and hostility. The First World War was proclaimed as the war to end all wars but certainly failed in this. World W…

Donald L. Norbie

Your God is too small !!!

Is God ever unfair?

‘That’s not fair!’ is an expression we expect to hear from little children, but is surprisingly often heard from adults as well.Mankind seems to have a standard of behaviour by which it judges whether s…

Ian Rees

Is what you do for the Lord, a job, or a ministry?

Some people have a job in the local church, others involve themselves in a ministry. If you quit because somebody criticized you, it was a job. If you keep on serving, it’s a ministry. If you quit beca…

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UBC World for Today, Daily Reading

It is the Lord

It is the Lord, Who in the tempest sleeping,Was awakened by His feeble few:Who still on high, His faithful vigil keeping,Will soon arise, the Mighty One and True. It is the Lord, small, still voice reve…

J. Jay

Poetry

Jacob at Bethel

PART TWO – Genesis 28. 10-22 In Part 1 of our study of Jacob’s initial experience at Bethel, we looked at the four ‘Beholds’ which punctuate the narrative; ‘Behold, a ladder’, ‘Behold, the angels’, Beh…

‘Now by chance a certain priest came down that road and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side’ In the parable of the good Samaritan, three people were given a chance to help a dying man lying …

Mourne Evangelical Trust

Northfield Bible Week ‘Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this’, Eccl. 7. 10. How easy it is to say such words as t…

Alexander Austen

Outreach at Northampton Hot Air Balloon Festival

Background Northampton Borough Council (NBC) has held its Hot Air Balloon Festival for fifteen years and it is quite an event for it combines the spectacle of flying hot air balloons with entertainment,…

Wyn Williams

Paul’s View of the Law

What is the Law? In Gilbert and Sullivan’s famous operetta ‘Iolanthe’, the Lord Chancellor provides us with an interesting insight into English Law when he explains that: ‘The Law is the true embodiment…

Brian Clatworthy

Personal and Practical

THE BELIEVER‘S RESPONSIBILITY IN REGARD TO THE SPREADING OF THE GOSPEL (1945) 2 Kings 7. 9. BY E. W. ROGERS, LONDON, ENGLAND The four leprous men were right. To withhold glad tidings from a starving peo…

Reports from By-gone Days

The Reports Section has been running from the inauguration of the magazine and here is a selection of interesting Reports from ‘days gone by’. From the very first edition of yhe magazine - 1945 1945 a…

Roy Hill

Ruth, an Unsullied Name

Introduction The Book of Ruth contains narrative of an ancient family that lived in Bethlehem about a millennium before Christ was born. The human author is not known but Hebrew scholars hold the book i…

Cyril Cann

Ruth, an Unsullied Name

The Dustbin Lid

The British TV series Dixon of Dock Green ran for an amazing twenty-five years. In 1990, the atheistic playwright behind it, ‘Ted’ Willis, moved an amendment to the Broadcasting Bill, hoping to pave the…

Michael Penfold

The Fruit of the Spirit is Longsuffering Gentleness …

This article is the fifth part of a series of studies on the fruit of the Spirit.Gal. 5. 22-23 The fruit of the Spirit is … long suffering he next three facets of the fruit of the Spirit are manward: lo…

Bernard Osborne

The Fruit Of The Spirit

The One Gospel and its Dynamics

STUDY 1 Galatians is an epistle that defends, defines and demonstrates in life, God’s one gospel in Christ Jesus. The book can be divided into three movements of thought in its six chapters. These movem…

Chapter 2, Versus 4, 5 that they may train the young women ¡ª this rendering is preferable to the A.V., “ teach.” The verb sophronizo literally denotes to cause to be of Sound mind ; the training here e…

W. E. Vine

The Epistle to Titus

What should be the Christian’s attitude toward Muslims

Question What should be the Christian’s attitude towards Muslims? Answer People calling themselves Muslims have perpetrated many acts of terrorism in the recent past and therefore it is understandable t…

Howard Coles

Question Time

Where do we go from now?

I don’t know whether the founders of Precious Seed thought that the magazine was only something that would serve the assemblies in the immediate post-war years or whether some had the vision to see it s…

Roy Hill

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it, Prov. 11. 15. A friend of mine, with his wife, moved to Bath a while ago. John had emigrated from Botswana to the UK to read for a post-graduate degr…

Ian Rees

Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World