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Howard A. Barnes
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‘But God …’
There are over twenty occasions in the New Testament where statements about the thoughts, actions and condition of men are immediately contrasted with those of God, in expressions beginning “Bur God ……
Howard A. Barnes
1985 Volume 36 Issue 5
Exposition
“Perfection” in the New Testament
When the word “perfect” is used in the New Testament to describe people, it has nothing to do with their being sinless. The family of Greek words generally translated as “perfect” in the Authorised Ve…
Howard A. Barnes
1982 Volume 33 Issue 2
Study
Adoption
1 IntroductionAdoption in the New Testament was the legal procedure by which a male, originally from outside a family, was brought into that family and given all the rights, privileges and responsibil…
Howard A. Barnes
Thoughts on some Great Bible Doctrines
1992 Volume 43 Issue 4
Study
Aquila and Priscilla
Circumstances bkyond our control are not beyond God’s control, in fact not only do ‘all things work together for good’, Rom 8. 28, to them that love Him, but also, the things that happen to us if we s…
Howard A. Barnes
1989 Volume 40 Issue 4
Exposition
Charles Henry Mackintosh
Charles Henry Mackintosh (better known as ‘CHM’)was born in 1820, at Glenmalure Barracks County Wicklow, Ireland, the son of a captain in a Scots Highland regiment. He was converted at the age of eigh…
Howard A. Barnes
2020 Volume 75 Issue 4
History
Donald Ross (1823-1903)
Introduction Someone has said that ‘The years that followed the great revival of ‘59 and the [eighteen] sixties were the most fruitful in the annals of Christianity in … [Scotland] … since the Reforma…
Howard A. Barnes
2023 Volume 78 Issue 4
History
Handley Moule – His life and legacy
Introduction Handley Carr Glyn Moule (1841-1920) was an evangelical Anglican academic and theologian, writer and poet, who, for the last twenty years of his life, occupied the prestigious position of …
Howard A. Barnes
2020 Volume 75 Issue 1
History
Peace in the New Testament
The GospelsThe coming of the Lord Jesus brought the promise of peace, to Jews and Gentiles alike, as, first, ‘the word which God sent unto the children of Is-rael, preaching peace by Jesus Christ’, Ac…
Howard A. Barnes
Thoughts on the Peace of God
1994 Volume 45 Issue 5
Exposition
Peace in the Old Testament
IntroductionPeace is not only freedom from civil disturbance, hostility or war, but also the enjoyment of calm, rest, harmony and tranquillity and a state of friendliness between previously estranged …
Howard A. Barnes
Thoughts on the Peace of God
1994 Volume 45 Issue 4
Exposition
Perfection
IntroductionThere are often serious misunderstandings about the doctrine of perfection. It is often confused with the idea of complete sinlessness, especially as the latter has been seen as a conditio…
Howard A. Barnes
Thoughts on some Great Bible Doctrines
1993 Volume 44 Issue 5
Study
Personalities in the Pastoral Epistles
Those who were a delight to Paul: Timothy (continued) Timothy never met Paul in Troas and in all probability he never got down to Corinth. In fact, when Paul arrived in Troas, he did not find Titus, …
Howard A. Barnes
Personalities In The Pastoral Epistles
2010 Volume 65 Issue 4
Exposition
Personalities In the Pastoral Epistles
Introduction The last letters written by the apostle Paul were to Timothy and Titus, the socalled Pastoral Epistles. In them the apostle referred to some twenty-seven people by name ranging from those…
Howard A. Barnes
Personalities In The Pastoral Epistles
2010 Volume 65 Issue 3
Exposition
Personalities in the Pastoral Epistles – Part 5
Those who were a delight to Paul (continued) Luke (meaning: ‘light’, ‘bright’, ‘white’) Luke was a Gentile physician who joined Paul’s party in Troas, the major sea port on the western coast of Asia M…
Howard A. Barnes
Personalities In The Pastoral Epistles
2011 Volume 66 Issue 3
Exposition
Personalities in the Pastoral Epistles (4) – Those who were a delight to Paul (continued)
TITUS Titus was one of Paul’s fellow-workers who, over the space of nearly twenty years, undertook some difficult and demanding tasks at Paul’s instigation. The apostle was involved with Titus from hi…
Howard A. Barnes
Personalities In The Pastoral Epistles
2011 Volume 66 Issue 2
Exposition
Personalities in the Pastoral Epistles (7) – Those who were a delight to Paul (continued)
Apollos When Apollos, a Jew from Alexandria in Egypt, turned up at the synagogue at Ephesus, he made quite an impression with his speaking. As far as it went, his teaching was very good, being marked …
Howard A. Barnes
Personalities In The Pastoral Epistles
2012 Volume 67 Issue 1
Exposition
Personalities in the Pastoral Epistles (8) – Those who were devoted, dutiful and dear to Paul
Paul intended to send relief to Titus, who was working on the island of Crete, so that he could be free to meet him at Nicopolis. This relief was to be in the person of either Artemas or Tychicus, Tit…
Howard A. Barnes
Personalities In The Pastoral Epistles
2012 Volume 67 Issue 2
Devotional
Personalities in the Pastoral Epistles (9) – Those who were a disappointment to Paul
Those who were a disappointment to PaulDemas (meaning: popular) Demas was a fellow-labourer with the apostle Paul and was with him during his first imprisonment,1 but deserted him during his second, 2…
Howard A. Barnes
Personalities In The Pastoral Epistles
2012 Volume 67 Issue 3
Devotional
Reconciliation
1. IntroductionOur modern understanding of reconciliation is of two previously alienated parties coming together again after a time of estrangement; the reconciliation often being brought about by a t…
Howard A. Barnes
Thoughts on some Great Bible Doctrines
1992 Volume 43 Issue 1
Study
Redemption
1 IntroductionRedemption is freedom fallowing payment. In the Bible, the emphasis is usually placed upon the deliverance and freedom gained following redemption. At times, however, the stress is upon …
Howard A. Barnes
Thoughts on some Great Bible Doctrines
1992 Volume 43 Issue 3
Study
Regeneration (Published 1992)
This subject is dealt with nationally and individually in the New Testament. The author is here looking at it individually, i.e. in the sense of the New Birth. 1 Introduction One writer - Philip Jacob…
Howard A. Barnes
Thoughts on some Great Bible Doctrines
1992 Volume 43 Issue 5
Exposition
Salvation
1. Introduction Salvation means both ‘rescue from danger’ and ‘preservation in safety’. This joint meaning, recovery and subsequent safety and protection, is very important in fully grasping the teach…
Howard A. Barnes
Thoughts on some Great Bible Doctrines
1992 Volume 43 Issue 2
Study
Samuel Ridout (1855-1930)
Introduction Anyone reading through lists of second-hand Christian books will soon come across the name of the author ‘S(amuel) Ridout’. He and Frederick Grant were, in their day, the leading Bible sc…
Howard A. Barnes
2024 Volume 79 Issue 1
History
Sanctification
IntroductionSanctification is the deliberate act of taking something out of common, everyday use and setting it apart for God’s use. Either people or inanimate things can be thus set aside for God’s s…
Howard A. Barnes
Thoughts on some Great Bible Doctrines
1993 Volume 44 Issue 1
Study
Sir Robert Anderson (1841–1918)
Christian magazines like this one do not normally contain articles describing the life of a man who was a spymaster, a chief police detective, a knight, and a prolific author on Bible topics, but this…
Howard A. Barnes
2018 Volume 73 Issue 1
History
The God of all Comfort
Introduction The apostle Paul was very relieved to hear that the Corinthian assembly had, generally speaking, reacted positively to his very critical First Epistle, 2 Cor. 7. 6-7. Not surprisingly, th…
Howard A. Barnes
2015 Volume 70 Issue 2
Devotional
The Ministry of the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Believer
Introduction The Lord Jesus told His disciples that the future relationship that believers would enjoy with the Holy Spirit would be: ‘he dwelleth with you [i.e., by your side], and shall be in you’, …
Howard A. Barnes
2018 Volume 73 Issue 1
Exposition
Those who were a delight to Paul (continued) – Aquila and Priscilla (Prisca) – Part 6
The Jewish Rabbi Jehuda wrote that ‘He who does not teach his son a trade is much the same as if he taught him to be a thief’. This was in addition to any academic training that a son might have been …
Howard A. Barnes
Personalities In The Pastoral Epistles
2011 Volume 66 Issue 4
Devotional
Those Who Were a Delight to Paul: Lois and Eunice (Continued)
Eunice and her mother Lois lived in Lystra in southern Galatia (modern-day Turkey). They were Jewesses, but, by the time we read about them, Eunice had married a Greek and had a grown-up, but uncircum…
Howard A. Barnes
Personalities In The Pastoral Epistles
2011 Volume 66 Issue 1
Exposition
Thoughts on the Will of God
The will of God in our ServiceWe should all serve God: David did, in fact in doing so he ‘served his own generation by the will of God’, Acts 13. 36. There is ample scriptural evidence that each one o…
Howard A. Barnes
Thoughts on the Will of God
1995 Volume 50 Issue 4
Contemporary Issues
Thoughts on the Will of God
IntroductionThere might be some debate about the identity of the twenty-four elders in the Book of The Revelation, but there can be no argument about what they had to say concerning the purpose of cre…
Howard A. Barnes
Thoughts on the Will of God
1995 Volume 50 Issue 3
Contemporary Issues
Vocation
IntroductionA vocation is a calling, and to call someone is to give them a clear message, whether by way of a personal invitation, summons or instruction. The words calling or vocation are still somet…
Howard A. Barnes
Thoughts on some Great Bible Doctrines
1993 Volume 44 Issue 2
Study
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, a…
Howard A. Barnes
2017 Volume 72 Issue 3
Study
William Henry Bennet (1843-1920)
The life of William Bennet is a good illustration of how God equips a dedicated soul to serve Him in ways that the individual might originally be unaware of. William Bennet eventually became one of th…
Howard A. Barnes
2020 Volume 75 Issue 3
History
William Kelly (1821-1906)
William Kelly, born two hundred years ago this year, has been called ‘the last prominent survivor of the first generation of Brethren (so-called)’,1 and was widely acclaimed as an outstanding biblical…
Howard A. Barnes
2021 Volume 76 Issue 2
History
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