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Barnabas the Exhorter – A Pen Portrait

In Old Testament days, the people of Israel were divided into three cate-gories – worshippers, workers and war-riors. The priests were set apart for the worship of Jehovah, the Lev ...

A. Naismith

1981 Volume 32 Issue 2

Exposition

Called and Sanctified – Isaiah 6

Isaiah did not have any doubts about his call and commission He could pinpoint the time when, the place where, and the manner how he was called. It happened in 758 B.C.. “the yea ...

A. Naismith

1982 Volume 33 Issue 4

Study

Church at Thessalonica – A Model The Church

When Paul, Silas and Timothy left Philippe it seems that Luke remained in the “colony”, probably to instruct its heavenly citizens and build up the young church (for the “we" s ...

A. Naismith

New Testament Churches

1971 Volume 22 Issue 5

Exposition

Philip the Evangelist – A Pen Portrait

While the Greek words evangelion and evangelizo (never translated “evangel" and “evangelize") are of frequent occurrence in the New Testament, the personal noun ...

A. Naismith

1980 Volume 31 Issue 5

Exposition

Stephen the Martyr A Pen Portrait

It has been truly said that “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church”, and it is therefore fitting that the case of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, should be cons ...

A. Naismith

1980 Volume 31 Issue 2

Exposition

The Church at Antioch – A Church with a Privilege

The persecution that followed Stephen’s martyrdom began a new stage in the progress of the early Christian Church, leading to the expansion of evangelistic testimony to Asia Mino ...

A. Naismith

New Testament Churches

1971 Volume 22 Issue 2

Exposition

The Church at Antioch – A church with a Problem

When Paul and Barnabas returned to Antioch after preaching the Word in Cyprus and Asia Minor, they rehearsed in the assembly there how God had opened the door of faith to the Gentile ...

A. Naismith

New Testament Churches

1971 Volume 22 Issue 3

Exposition

The Church at Ephesus – A Church Imbued with Divine Energy

In the eleventh century B.C., about the time when the prophet Samuel judged Israel and Saul reigned as anointed king, colonists from Athens founded the city of Ephesus in Asia Minor. ...

A. Naismith

New Testament Churches

1971 Volume 22 Issue 6

Exposition

The Church at Ephesus – A Church with a Past

Paul’s warning to the Ephesian elders when he addressed them at Miletus, Acts 20, proved extremely timely and opportune. Writing years later to Timothy who was then at Ephesus, the ...

A. Naismith

New Testament Churches

1972 Volume 23 Issue 1

Exposition

The Church at Jerusalem – A Church Making Progress

A programme is in itself an indication of progress. The writer can recall the general amusement in a company of boys and girls when one of our sons, then seven or eight ye ...

A. Naismith

New Testament Churches

1971 Volume 22 Issue 1

Exposition

The Church at Jerusalem – A Church with a Programme

The church, the body of Christ, Eph. 1. 23, is not an aggregate of local churches, but is composed of individual believers whom God has taken out from among the nations as a people f ...

A. Naismith

New Testament Churches

1970 Volume 21 Issue 6

Exposition

The Church at Philippi – A Colony of Heaven

On his second itinerary Paul, separated from Barnabas because of the dissension between them regarding John Mark, had as his companion Silvanus, a name frequently abbreviated as Sila ...

A. Naismith

New Testament Churches

1971 Volume 22 Issue 4

Exposition

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