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2016 Volume 71 Issue 1
Articles in this Issue
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A Word for Today – καινός
It is not an exaggeration to suggest that human beings have an insatiable appetite for new things. We seem to be obsessed about new products, and people will often queue for hours on end to be the first…
Brian Clatworthy
Study
Chaplaincy at London’s Heathrow Airport
London Heathrow is one of the busiest airports in the world. With 1,300 flights each day, it is a constant bustle of humanity. The numbers are huge: over 70 million passengers per year, around 140,000 s…
Steve Buckeridge
Report
Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 2: Ciaphas who Sacrificed Him
The word of God can be wonderfully dismissive. In Luke chapter 3 we have a long list of very impressive names and titles which ends with ‘Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests’. One would have thoug…
Ian Rees
Characters Around the Crucifixion
Study
Christ – A Greater than Solomon – (3) As to His Supplication
Solomon appears to be a man of prayer. Certainly two of his prayers stand out: that at the commencement of his reign, and his prayers at the dedication of the temple. When we say that prayer changes thi…
John Griffiths
Christ – A Greater than Solomon
Devotional
Earthquakes of Scripture – Part 3
Introduction In the previous two articles we looked at those earthquakes that were of major scriptural importance in the past – at the Flood, at Sinai with the giving of the law, at the crucifixion, and…
Jeff Brown
Earthquakes of Scripture
Study
Editorial
‘Submit yourselves therefore to God’, James 4. 7. I was never a very good swimmer. In fact, I would be reluctant to venture outside of the comparative safety of a swimming pool. However, one thing I not…
John Bennett
Editorial
Ephesians – Part 4: Chapter 2 vv 11-22
Having looked at the section of chapter 2 which states that we are dead to God, we now proceed to the section that shows we are distant from God. Once again, Paul is taken up with the position that Gent…
Norman Mellish
Ephesians
Exposition
Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hand to God, Ps. 68. 31 NKJV
Although the words of Psalm 68 verse 31 may have a prophetic application, God is blessing Ethiopia today as never before. This is all the more significant when one contemplates the position of Ethiopia …
Robert Revie
Report
Genesis
Introduction This book has been rightly called ‘The seed plot of the Bible’. Here we have recorded the origin of the universe, the creation of man, the institution of marriage, the entrance of sin, the …
R. Catchpole
Exposition
Lordship in the Assembly
Unrecognized Lordship Mark’s Gospel could justifiably be referred to as ‘The Gospel of the unrecognized Lordship of Christ’. In this Gospel He is referred to as Lord on only eighteen occasions. Indeed, …
Colin Lacey
Devotional
Nathan the Prophet
We learn from 1 Chronicles chapter 29, and from 2 Chronicles chapter 9, that Nathan the prophet recorded ‘the acts of David’ and ‘the acts of Solomon, first and last’. No doubt it would have been intere…
John Scarsbrook
Devotional
Question Time – Will the church go through the great tribulation?
QUESTION Will the church go through the great tribulation? ANSWER Before offering an answer to this question there are a couple of points that need to be clarified. Firstly, I assume that when the quest…
Richard Collings
Question Time
Reports and News – Gospel Work and Other Activities
Editorial Note You may note that this issue of the magazine has only one page of Reports. This is part of a planned review being undertaken in response to a decreasing number of contributions being subm…
Sandy Jack
Report
The Doctrine of Justification
The problem of justification In Old Testament times, two men had this problem. Job raised the question, ‘How should man be just with God?’ Job 9. 2. Bildad the Shuhite asked, ‘How then can man be justif…
Eric Parmenter
Exposition
The Gospel Preached by the Lord Jesus
There are five major discourses of the Lord Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel, each concluding with a statement indicating that He had finished what He had been saying and was now moving on to other service. Cl…
Ian Jackson
The Gospel Preached by the Lord Jesus
Exposition
The Lord’s Upper Room Ministry
As we consider the Lord’s ‘farewell ministry’ to His own, we note that first He talked to them about many subjects, including the truth about His Father, chapters 13-16, before, in chapter 17, He speaks…
D. J. Williams
A Word for Today
Their Finest Hour – Daniel
Praying for the Restoration of Israel Daniel, whose name means ‘God is my Judge’, had many fine hours, despite being a captive servant of the Babylonian and Medo-Persian kings for most of his life. Cons…
Malcolm C. Davis
Their Finest Hour
Testimony
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 2: Chapter 1 vv 2-4
This article is part of an on-going study in which the writer’s intention is to look at each phrase and statement in the letter and to glean a simple understanding of what Paul was writing to Titus abou…
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
Exposition
Widows, Orphans and Strangers – God Loves the Stranger
God Loves the Stranger Strangers are those who no longer live in their homeland but seek to create a new life in a foreign land. There is a sense in which they have lost something – the personal support…
Clarke Logan
Widows, Orphans and Strangers
A Word for Today
Book Reviews in this Issue
Gleanings from the book of Ruth – Alex Dryburgh
Paperback, 104 pages, Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. W. Port Colborne, ON L3K 6A6. ISBN 978-1927-5216-18. A book review is, by its very nature, a subjective exercise. The style and f…
John Scarsbrook
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How to Master the Bible – Martin Anstey
Paperback, 138 pages, Published by Scripture Teaching Library, Cookstown, NI. ISBN 978-1-909789-16-6. This is a revised reprint of a book first published in 1931. In view of this, I imagine that the a…
John Scarsbrook
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The Land and People of Israel, what does the future hold? – Drew Craig
Paperback, 63 pages, Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. W. Port Colborne, ON L3K 6A6. ISBN 978-1897-1178-11. To many in the secular and political world, the modern state of Israel is con…
John Scarsbrook
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