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2007 Volume 62 Issue 1
Articles in this Issue
‘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 cov…
Ken Rudge
Report
1 Corinthians 9-10
INTRODUCTION The previous articles provided an outline of 1 Corinthians 10 and expository comments on verses 1 to 22. This article offers comments on the section which stretches from chapter 10 verse 23…
Malcolm Horlock
Studies in 1 Corinthians
Study
An Expectant Assembly
"I WILL COME AGAIN" The Truth of His Coming ‘The attentive reader of the New Testament will find in its pages three solemn and weighty facts presented to his view; namely, first, that the Son of God ha…
Patrick Long
Exposition
Believers under threat
Pastoral Articles are provided as and when we put together contributions from believers involved in the particular difficulty that is highlighted. They are set out so as not only to state the particular…
Unknown
Exposition
Bryn Mawr Assembly, Philadelphia, USA
The saints meeting at Bryn Mawr recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the assembly at a dinner in a local hotel attended by over 80 past and present members of the fellowship. Bry…
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History
Coming out and going in!
Before God’s people could get out ofEgypt, Pharaoh made them threedifferent offers. To each Moses said,‘No’. If he had not they’d never havegot out! First, Pharaoh said, ‘Go, only leaveyour children her…
UBC World for Today, Daily Reading
Exposition
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 provi…
Ken Rudge
Editorial
Education of Children otherwise than at a School
There has been increased interest amongst believers over recent years in the education of children at home. This brief paper, written from the perspective of a teacher, is an attempt to consider objecti…
Cyril Cann
Education of Children
Exposition
Evangelical Mission Press, South Africa
EMP is located in Bellville, a town on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, and it celebrated its 75th anniversary with a conference held in November 2006 at The Civic Centre in the town. It was at…
Roy Hill
Report
Faith’s Resource in Pressure
‘And a man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land’, Isa. 32. 2. When the blast’s o'erw…
H.J. Miles
Poetry
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 la…
Stephen Baker
Report
Grace and Mercy
Grace then, is all transcending. It takes us up in Christ before all worlds, and before we ourselves have done either good or evil, see Rom. 9. 10-14; 2 Tim. 1. 8-10. Mercy on the other hand, is grace a…
Geoffrey Bull
Exposition
If God should go on strike
It’s just a good thing God above has never gone on strike, Because He wasn’t treated fair on things He didn’t like. If He had ever once sat down, And said, ‘That’s it. I'm through. I’ve had enough of th…
Keith Clayton
Poetry
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 discomf…
Stephen Baker
Question Time
Living Productive Lives in a Society hostile to God
Adjusting to rapid change Some settle in easily to change. Perhaps most do not adjust well to new and strange circumstances. I believe Daniel and his three friends adjusted quickly to life in Babylon. I…
James R. Cochrane
Daniel, a Man for all seasons
Exposition
Part 2. The Believer and Principalities and Powers
By the church, principalities and powers know the manifold wisdom of God, Eph. 3. 3-12 This mystery of Jew and Gentile united in one body in Christ, previously hidden, is now made known to all men in th…
C. E. Green
Principalities and Powers
Exposition
Shepherds
After the foot and mouth epidemic of 2001 in some parts of the UK where sheep once abounded there existed a strange silence. No bleating. Foot and mouth has taken its dreadful toll. The shepherds had no…
Bernard Osborne
Exposition
Some Thoughts on Godliness
Having considered in the first part of this article the apostle Peter’s perspective on godliness, we now turn to that of the apostle Paul. The Focal Point for Paul Godliness perfectly displayed in Chri…
Barry King
Some Thoughts on Godliness
Exposition
The Chuch in Smyrna
REVELATION 2. 8-11 THE CHURCH ADDRESSED ‘And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna’, v. 8a. Unlike the church at Ephesus we know very little of this assembly in Smyrna. We have no record of it being es…
John Bennett
The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia Minor
Exposition
The Greatest Disincentive To Believing That There Are ‘Signs of the Times’
A liberal device called ‘Preterism’ In my previous article we saw how a liberal device called ‘Preterism’ renders obsolete in the eyes of many the most important ‘signs of the times’ in God’s prophetic …
Donald Cameron
Exposition
The Indispensable Man
One day when you’re feeling important,One day when your ego’s in bloom,One day when you take it for grantedYou’re the best qualified man in the room. One day when you feel that your goingWould leave an …
Keith Clayton
Poetry
The Man and the Trees
Man’s life began with trees They stood, the man and his wife, looking out across the most beautiful woodland park the world has ever seen. All around them stood trees so varied that a year-long supply o…
Gordon L. Bissett
Exposition
The One Gospel and its Freedom
Principle: Is the gospel outward rules or inward reality that changes us? Central question: How do we live? In our last article on chapter 5 we considered the principle of the indwelling Spirit of God w…
Randal Amos
Studies in Galatians
Exposition
Views from the News
CHRISTIANS CONDEMN UNIVERSITY BAN ON ‘GAY CURE’ ABSTINENCE COURSE Christian leaders have condemned Edinburgh University for banning students belonging to the Christian Union from teaching an abstinence …
Unknown
Report
Why Does an Assembly Die?
Some proclaim that all is well in Christendom by pointing to the growth of mega churches. But the truth is that mega churches often grow by pulling people away from smaller churches. People may be attra…
Donald L. Norbie
Exposition
Book Reviews in this Issue
Islam, The Challenge to the Church
Paperback, 126pp. Published by Isaac Publishing, The Old Rectory, River Street, Pewsey, SN9 5DB. Price £5.95, ISBN 0 9547835 4 9. As a convert to the Christian faith from Islam Patrick Sookdheo is wel…
Patrick Sookdheo
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Must I really go, Lord?
Paperback, 230pp. Published by Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. Price £8.95, ISBN 1-897117-03-5. This book is an account of the missionary endeavo…
Betty Bisset
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Philippians – The Mind of Christ
Paperback, 220pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada, L3K 6A6. ISBN 1-897117-21-3. This book arises from the author’s ‘desire to put into writing som…
Norman Mellish
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Rapture Fiction and the Evangelical Crisis
Paperback, 160pp. Published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North Ind. Est. Darlington. DL3 0PH. Price £7.95, ISBN 0-85234-610-7. This book takes a critical look at the extremely popular ‘Left Behind’…
Crawford Gribben
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The Fruitful Vine
Paperback, 172pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. Price £8.95, ISBN 1-897117-13-2. Any author who dares to write on such an important subject as …
Warren Henderson
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The Guide: Volume 2, Truth Under Attack
Paperback, 288pp. Published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North Ind. Est., Darlington, DL3 0PH. Price £10, ISBN 0 85234 587 9. ‘The Guide, topical series’, embraces commentaries on individual books …
Eryl Davies
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The Word and the Spirit
Hardback, 240pp. Published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North Ind. Est., Darlington, DL3 0PH. Price £9.95, ISBN 0 85234 545 3. This book is a collection of ten sermons preached by Charles Spurgeon …
Charles Spurgeon
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What the Bible Teaches – Joshua, Judges and Ruth
Hardback, 526pp. Published by John Ritchie Ltd., 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, KA3 1RH, UK Price £19.95, ISBN 1 904064 34 5. All three writers of this latest volume in the What the Bible Teaches series wi…
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