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2014 Volume 69 Issue 2
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A Word for Today: Blood, Bloodshed, Bloodguilt, Murder (Heb. Dam)
Some of us may have seen the Moody Institute of Science presentation entitled ‘Red River of Blood’, which, although now somewhat dated, never ceases to make one realize just how ‘awesomely and wonderful…
Brian Clatworthy
A Word for Today
Study
Bits & Bobs
Next to the fruit fly, the most popular insect (arthropod) of the creation scientist could very well be the common honey bee. Much has been written and filmed of this insect’s incredible ability to make…
Sandy Jack
Views from the News
Daniel’s Prophecy of The Seventy Weeks – Part 4
Daniel chapter 9 The Prophetic Programme, verses 25-26 – Part 4 Daniel’s prophecy of the seventy ‘sevens’ is one of the most amazing prophecies in the Bible. Firstly, because of its clarity, for while s…
Andrew Wilson
Daniel’s Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks
Exposition
Editorial – ‘When thou comest, bring with thee … the books, but especially the parchments’, 2 Ti
‘When thou comest, bring with thee … the books, but especially the parchments’, 2 Tim. 4. 13. It was on one of my occasional visits to a local book depot that I met the founder of the charity that runs …
Andrew Bennett
Editorial
Frederick Stanley Arnot: 1858-1914
‘I have seen many missionaries under varied circumstances, but such an absolutely forlorn man, existing on from day to day, almost homeless, without any of the modern appliances which make life bearable…
John Bennett
History
Glory
Whilst any definition is bound to be limited, ‘glory’ might be defined as majestic splendour, dignity, honour, brilliance, and grandeur. The Glory of God As God ‘is light’, the glory of God is associate…
Cliff Jones
Devotional
Gospel Literature Ireland
Gospel Literature Ireland (GLI) is a recently established trust whose objectives as outlined in the Trust Deed, are ‘the advancement and promotion of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the truth of the Bibl…
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Organisations
Health & Safety
Introduction ‘You’ve clearly put effort into making this a welcoming and safe place for children’, was a quote I heard from a parent during an outreach activity. The thought that had been put into ensur…
Steve Buckeridge
Contemporary Issues
Manasseh and Amon
If the apostle Paul, by his own admission, was the chief of sinners in the New Testament, then Manasseh could well lay claim to that dubious title in the Old Testament. It is encouraging to note, howeve…
John Scarsbrook
Exposition
Mark and Timothy
There are two characters in our New Testament whose lives and service for the Lord appear to be inextricably linked. We are privileged to be able to view them at different stages of their careers: at th…
Simon Sherwin
Exposition
Question Time – Does the New Testament prescribe how we should sit at the Lord’s Supper?
Question Does the New Testament prescribe how we should sit at the Lord’s Supper? Answer Several hymns infer that in meeting to remember the Lord we sit in a circle, or on four sides with the emblems lo…
Richard Collings
Question Time
Reports
England Surrey The assembly at Guildford were really encouraged during the February half-term school holiday. From the Monday to the Wednesday of the holiday, a Bible Club for primary schoolchildren was…
Sandy Jack
Report
Shared Hope
Introduction Shared Hope is a Charitable Trust established by two brethren – Howard Peebles and Ian Burness – around five years ago. Both brethren felt that their long experience and ministry with Echoe…
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Organisations
The Believer as a Priest
In Revelation chapter 1 verse 6 the Saviour is said to have made those whom He loved, and freed from their sins by His own blood, ‘priests unto God and his Father’. In the Old Testament the only way to …
Mike Oakes
Contemporary Issues
The Challenge of Growing Old
‘Now also when I am old and grey- headed, O God, forsake me not’, Ps. 71. 18. ‘When I remember these things … for I had gone with the multitude … to the house of God’, 42. 4. ‘Cast me not off in the tim…
Tom Watt
Contemporary Issues
The Eternal State
It is noticeable how few passages in the Bible give details concerning the eternal state, or, as it is called in scripture, ‘the day of God’. The absence of such information is perhaps of some significa…
R. Catchpole
Contemporary Issues
The Priesthood – Part 2
Today, all saints are called to be priests unto our God, and, whilst Christ is our Great High Priest, we, as illustrated in the Aaronic system, have a role, and a duty to exercise our priestly office fo…
John Hall
The Priesthood
Devotional
The Servant Songs of Isaiah- Part 3
The most well-known and quoted Song of the Servant is the one found in Isaiah chapter 52 verse 13 through to chapter 53 verse 12. The oldest Jewish interpretation of the song, held for many centuries, i…
Adam Thropay
The Servant Songs of Isaiah
Devotional
The Sovereignty of God in Salvation
Salvation originates with God It is amazing to think that each individual believer’s salvation can be traced to ‘before the foundation of the world’, Eph. 1. 4. This firmly grounds salvation in God, not…
Ian Jackson
Devotional
Views from the News
Rising numbers of children no longer read Bible stories A study by the Bible Society finds that a large number of children are failing to read or hear Christian stories. They found that exposure to the …
Sandy Jack
Views from the News
Book Reviews in this Issue
Old but not out – James Taylor
Paperback, 108 pages, Published by Day One Publications, Rylands Road, Leominster, HR6 0NZ, England. Price: £6.00. ISBN 978-1-84625-306-5. The sub-title of this book is ‘Purpose and Discipleship in Ol…
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Show & Tell – Colin D. Jones
Paperback, 16 pages each, Published by Day One Publications, Rylands Road, Leominster, HR6 0NZ, England. Price: £2.50 each, ISBN 978-1-84625-374-4; 978-1-84625-375-1; 978-1-84625-380-5; 978-1-84625-377-…
John Bennett
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The Journey of Life – Pilgrim’s Progress for Contemporary Africa
Paperback; 158 pages, Published by Opal Trust, 1 Glenannan Park, Lockerbie, DG11 2FA, Scotland. ISBN 978-1-907098-04-8. Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, a wonderful narrative of life as a journey, caught …
Bryan Charles
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The Messiah in the Temple – Roger Liebi
Hardback, 610 pages, Published by Christlicher Medien-Vertrieb, Postfach 300 430, 40404 Düsseldorf, Germany. Price: £27.50. ISBN 978-3-943175-05-9 This full-colour volume, originally published in Germ…
John Bennett
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Voice in the Darkness – Della Letkeman
Paperback, 286 pages, Published by Everyday Publications Inc. 310 Killaly Street West, Port Colborne, Ontario, L3K 6A6, Canada. ISBN 978-0-88873-723-6. The contents of this book owe a great deal to Dr…
John Bennett
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