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2017 Volume 72 Issue 3
Articles in this Issue
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A Word for Today – Pistis
During his imprisonment in Tibet by the Chinese communists, the English missionary Geoffrey Bull was subjected to a continuous period of interrogation aimed at breaking his Christian faith. Just before …
Brian Clatworthy
Study
Assemblies in Thailand from Islands to Hill Tribes
The population of Thailand1 is 67 million with 10 million people living in the capital Bangkok. Ninety-three per cent of the population is Buddhist, and five per cent is Muslim, with Christians making u…
Peter Ferry
Report
Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 8: Mary Who Grieved Him
It would appear that there were very few at the cross of our Lord who grieved for Him or were in any way sympathetic to Him. ‘This is your hour, and the power of darkness’ is what He had said to the Jew…
Ian Rees
Characters Around the Crucifixion
Exposition
Editorial
It was divine hands that first planted anything in earth’s soil, Gen. 2. 8. That planting established a place where man and God might commune – a place where not only man might enjoy fellowship with his…
Sandy Jack
Editorial
Ephesians – Part 10: Chapter 5 vv 15-21
Maturity in life, 5. 15-21 The first three verses of this section have a close connection with those that have gone before. Since we are now ‘light in the Lord’, 5. 8, and our life is to expose the evil…
Norman Mellish
Ephesians
Exposition
Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel
The so called ‘great commission’ from the Lord in Mark’s Gospel is straightforward: ‘Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of hea…
Graeme Paterson
Report
Judges
The design of the book Among the many words of wisdom in the book of Proverbs, there are some which serve both as statements of fact and, at the same time, provide a word of warning. Chapter 13 verse 15…
John Scarsbrook
Exposition
Question Time – Is it appropriate for assemblies to donate to non-Christian charities?
Question Is it appropriate for assemblies to donate to non-Christian charities? Answer I have no experience of charities that operate outside of the United Kingdom so my response has to be limited to th…
Richard Collings
Question Time
The Argument for Galatians – Part 1
This New Testament letter had a significant impact on the six-teenth century reformer Martin Luther who once stated that ‘The Epistle to the Galatians is my Epistle; I have betrothed myself to it; it is…
Brian Clatworthy
The Argument of Galatians
Exposition
The Fruit of the Spirit – The Character Developed in the Believer – Galatians 5. 22-23
Longsuffering It is at this point that we find the next three ‘fruits’ primarily centred in the direction of our fellow men. This particular fruit of the Spirit carries the thought of being long-patient…
Fred Whitelock
The Fruit Of The Spirit
A Word for Today
The Holy Spirit and Christ
No careful reader of the Gospels could fail to appreciate that when the Lord Jesus was here, manifest in flesh, He experienced in an unprecedented way the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. As the p…
R. Catchpole
Exposition
The Impeccability of our Lord
Preaching in Tenby a little while ago, I was alarmed to hear somebody say, ‘I like to think that the Lord Jesus was just like me. I like to think that He could have sinned and, therefore, understands th…
Ian Rees
Exposition
The Messianic Psalms – Psalm 22
The Old Testament is divided by the Lord Jesus Christ in Luke chapter 24 verse 44 into three distinct parts: the law, the psalms, and the prophets. In each of these sections there is an outstanding pass…
Stephen Fellowes
The Messianic Psalms
Exposition
Their Finest Hour – Timothy
Over 200 years ago a group of five men, including William Carey, met to discuss their vision for taking the gospel to India. One of their number, Andrew Fuller, later recalled the meeting: ‘Our undertak…
Colin Lacey
Their Finest Hour
Exposition
This Man
We delight to read the Epistle to the Hebrews as the writer presents to us ‘this man’, e.g., Heb. 3. 3; 10. 12. The purpose of this paper is to take us through the Gospels and to see something of the se…
John Tinkler
This Man
Exposition
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 8: Chapter 2 vv 9-16
This article is part of an on-going study. 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 about. It mi…
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
Exposition
Walter Wolston
Walter Thomas Prideaux (W.T.P.) Wolston (1840-1917), who died 100 years ago this year, has left us a wonderful example of a believer who was able to lead a busy life in full-time employment, whilst, at …
Howard A. Barnes
Study
Will I be a Winner or a Loser at the Bema? – Part 1
Will I have an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom or will I be saved by the skin of my teeth? 2 Pet. 1. 11; 1 Cor. 3. 15. Will it be reward accompanied by rejoicing, or will it be reward tin…
John Griffiths
Will I be a Winner or a Loser at the Bema?
A Word for Today
Book Reviews in this Issue
Cornerstone Magazine Edited by David Dunlap
On-line magazine, 20 pages, Published by Cornerstone Magazine, 30 Maricona Way, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2T 1H2. Available at: cornerstonemagazine.org Cornerstone Magazine was launched in January 2017…
John Riddle
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Israel’s broken-hearted prophet
Hosea’s prophecy: an introduction and concise commentary Malcolm C. Davis Paperback, 96 pages, Published by John Ritchie Ltd., 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, KA3 1RH. ISBN: 978-1-910513-73-6. As Fraser Mun…
John Riddle
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Prove it: how you can know and show that the Bible is God’s word
Paperback, 270 pages, Published by Decapolis Press (an Imprint of Precious Seed), 19 Alfreton Road, Pinxton, NG16 6JZ, UK. [Available in the Precious Seed shop: www.onlineshop.preciousseed.org] ISBN: 97…
John Riddle
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