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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 be ...

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 “per ...

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, pr ...

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 t ...

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 Highlan ...

Howard A. Barnes

2020 Volume 75 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 ...

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 ...

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 betwe ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 referr ...

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’)

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 Pa ...

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 ...

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 Arte ...

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,

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 be ...

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, howe ...

Howard A. Barnes

Thoughts on some Great Bible Doctrines

1992 Volume 43 Issue 3

Study

Salvation

1. Introduction Salvation means both ‘rescue from danger’ and ‘preservation in safety’. This joint meaning, recovery and subsequent safety and protection, is very ...

Howard A. Barnes

Thoughts on some Great Bible Doctrines

1992 Volume 43 Issue 2

Study

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 ...

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 Bi ...

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. ...

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 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 tha ...

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 gr ...

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 scriptu ...

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 conce ...

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 ...

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 e ...

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 eventua ...

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)’,

Howard A. Barnes

2021 Volume 76 Issue 2

History

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