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2015 Volume 70 Issue 4
Articles in this Issue
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‘Let Us’
Many believers in the Lord Jesus experience times of difficulty. Sometimes, there may be circumstances which are visible to others; in many cases, there are matters known only to the individual. It may …
Steve Sherwin
Contemporary Issues
A Word for Today – S(h)emesh (Sun)
Shakespeare’s tragedy Richard III opens with these famous lines, ‘Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York’. This forms part of a longer soliloquy, where the Duke of…
Brian Clatworthy
Study
And Dwelt Among Us
As the diamond in the hand of the jeweller, by catching various shades of light, reflects new facets of its beauty and brilliance, so the Spirit of God, by taking a word here or a phrase there, unfolds …
A. G. Anstice
Devotional
Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 1
The dreadful example of Judas Iscariot has been burned into the hearts of believers over the years by the phrase at the beginning of the frequently-read passage on the Lord’s Supper, ‘the same night in …
Ian Rees
Characters Around the Crucifixion
Contemporary Issues
Charles Gahan
‘Where there are not faithful ministers of the word of God, the people decay’, Prov. 29. 18 GNV The background to the biblical text quoted is likely to have been Exodus chapter 32 verses 25-26, where Mo…
Brian Clatworthy
Contemporary Issues
Editorial – ‘For he himself knew what he would do’, John 6. 6.
This statement is made in the account of the feeding of the multitude. It follows a question asked of Philip by the Lord himself. ‘Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat?’ v. 5. We are also given …
Rutherford Rabey
Editorial
Epistle to Philemon
Onesimus’ Restoration ‘Thou therefore receive him’, v. 12;1 ‘receive him as myself’, v. 17. Here is the nub of this letter. It is, in effect, a letter of commendation from Paul to Philemon with regard t…
John Bennett
Exposition
Evidences of New Birth
John wrote his Gospel so that his readers might learn how to obtain eternal life, 20. 31, and he wrote his first epistle that those who believed they had obtained it might be able to verify the fact, 5.…
E W Rogers
Devotional
Hannah – Faithful Amidst Unfaithfulness
Hannah lived in a very difficult time in Israel’s history. The nation had just come through a period when accountability was ridiculed and ‘every man did that which was right in his own eyes’, Judg. 21.…
Ian Grant
Devotional
Love is the Answer
Love is the solution of all such difficulties as those at Corinth. In the 1st Epistle to Corinthians we can trace: (A) A twelve-fold might of love If love ruled, there would be: no division, as in chap…
Harry Bell
Devotional
Precious Seed Editors – 1945 to the Present
Whilst the work of Precious Seed is not the work of any one man, it is appropriate that in this 70th anniversary magazine we should say a little about the service of those who have been editors of the m…
None Assigned
History
Property Trusts and Trusteeship
Introduction Whilst there is no example in the New Testament of an assembly having sole access to a building for its meetings, there are definite advantages in that facility being available. However, wi…
None Assigned
Contemporary Issues
Psalm 119 – Monitoring the heart
Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death in the UK, although strides have been made to detect the disease early so that preventative measures can be introduced to monitor those who are a…
Jonathan Black
Exposition
Question Time – Should some assemblies consider meeting in a house instead of a hall?
Question Should some assemblies consider meeting in a house instead of a hall? Answer There will be many assemblies where the possibility of meeting in a house would not be a practical option due to the…
Richard Collings
Question Time
Reports
England Berkshire At the end of April, Daniel Rudge, together with the saints at Bracknell, held a series of gospel meetings. Fifty unsaved, twenty of which were adults, came along to a family lunch on …
Sandy Jack
Report
The Believer as a Worker
Introduction Many people define themselves by the work they do. As Christians we are called to work for the Lord. He calls us, equips us, and defines the sphere of our labours and, in a coming day, He w…
Ken Totton
Contemporary Issues
The Will of God
John’s third Epistle shows how division in the church arose even in the days of the Apostle John. The root cause of such division in our own day, as also then, is the activity of un-judged self. But it …
Albert Rouse
Contemporary Issues
Then came a Rich Man of Arimathea
It is James who, in his epistle, underlines the fact that genuine faith will always be accompanied by appropriate works. A Joseph stands at both the entrance and the exodus of the earthly pathway of the…
John Scarsbrook
Devotional
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 1: Chapter 1 v 1
The Epistle (letter) to Titus, though short, is full of practical teaching about local church life and the personal behaviour of believers. In essence, it is a manual containing truth and training for n…
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
Exposition
Book Reviews in this Issue
If it wasn’t for the Lighthouse – Bill and Irene Ridgeway
Paperback, 112 pages. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St West, Port Colborne, Ontario, L3K 6A6. ISBN 978-1-927521-56-4 If you want to know if missionaries have the same anxieties as we ha…
John Scarsbrook
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Looking for the Glory – An Exposition of the Epistle to Titus – Adam D. Thropay
Paperback, 103 pages, Published by Scripture Teaching Library, Cookstown, Northern Ireland. ISBN 978-1-909789-22-7. Adam D. Thropay has been involved in Bible teaching in assemblies in North America f…
John Scarsbrook
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