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Ian Rees

Articles by this Author

What should the Christian’s attitude be to gambling, especially as the United Kingdom is facing the biggest shake-up in gambling laws it has ever seen,and the result of these chang ...

Ian Rees

2005 Volume 60 Issue 2

Young Precious Seed

A Brief History of the Authorised (King James) Version

Most people would agree that the two greatest influences on the English language are the works of William Shakespeare and the King James Version of the Bible. But, though Shakespeare ...

Ian Rees

2011 Volume 66 Issue 2

Contemporary Issues

Abortion – The Moral Maze

‘I don’t think that infanticide (the killing of infants) is always unjustifiable. I don’t think it is plausible to think that there is any moral change that occurs during the j ...

Ian Rees

2006 Volume 61 Issue 4

Young Precious Seed

Behaving ourselves in the house of God

Timeless truths about the local assembly The Church – its order God’s pattern for leadershi ...

Ian Rees

2006 Volume 61 Issue 1

Young Precious Seed

Characters Around the Cross – Part 11: The Father Who Sent Him

We have seen the involvement of different men and women at the cross of our Lord Jesus, both those who believed in Him and those who didn’t. We have seen wickedness and kindness, ...

Ian Rees

Characters Around the Crucifixion

2018 Volume 73 Issue 2

Exposition

Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 1

The dreadful example of Judas Iscariot has been burned into the hearts of believers over the years by the phrase at the beginning of the frequently-read passage on the Lord’s Sup ...

Ian Rees

Characters Around the Crucifixion

2015 Volume 70 Issue 4

Contemporary Issues

Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 10: Joseph Who Buried Him

The crowds had watched Jesus of Nazareth die. They had observed the Roman soldiers breaking the legs of the two thieves on either side of our Lord, in order to hasten their deaths. ...

Ian Rees

Characters Around the Crucifixion

2018 Volume 73 Issue 1

Exposition

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 priest ...

Ian Rees

Characters Around the Crucifixion

2016 Volume 71 Issue 1

Study

Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 3: Peter Who Denied Him

Most of the characters we encounter around the cross of our Lord were unbelievers; Peter stands out as an exception. He is a very popular character because he is so spontaneous and ...

Ian Rees

Characters Around the Crucifixion

2016 Volume 71 Issue 2

Devotional

Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 4 – Herod who Mocked Him

It is important to remember in reading the New Testament that the name ‘Herod’ belonged to several people of the same family, much as there were many kings of England n ...

Ian Rees

Characters Around the Crucifixion

2016 Volume 71 Issue 3

Study

Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 5: Pilate Who Condemned Him

Pontius Pilate was caught in a trap. He had been given the unenviable task of governing the Roman province of Judea. No proud people ever love being subjugated by a foreign power, ...

Ian Rees

Characters Around the Crucifixion

2016 Volume 71 Issue 4

Exposition

Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 6: Simon Who Helped Him

Of the many characters who were involved in some way or other with the crucifixion of our Lord, Simon of Cyrene was one of the few who helped Him. Admittedly this help was forced u ...

Ian Rees

Characters Around the Crucifixion

2017 Volume 72 Issue 1

Devotional

Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 7: The Thief who turned to Him

Scripture tells us that our Lord was to be ‘numbered with the transgressors’, and so He arrived at Golgotha ‘where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side ...

Ian Rees

Characters Around the Crucifixion

2017 Volume 72 Issue 2

Exposition

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 w ...

Ian Rees

Characters Around the Crucifixion

2017 Volume 72 Issue 3

Exposition

Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 9: A Soldier Who Observed Him

Only two of the characters we have observed thus far in connection with our Lord’s crucifixion have been Gentiles – Pilate and Herod. The Roman centurion is the third. The othe ...

Ian Rees

Characters Around the Crucifixion

2017 Volume 72 Issue 4

Exposition

How God Called Me to Full-time Service

Though He called me to be a preacher and teacher of His word, it would be difficult for me to speak of God’s call to one particular place as my wife and I are now in our third sphe ...

Ian Rees

2015 Volume 70 Issue 3

Testimony

In my Place

Luis and Sebastian were twins and their home was a flat-roofed white house outside the walls of a little mountain town. Their parents had died but had left them a small inheritance a ...

Ian Rees

2006 Volume 61 Issue 3

Young Precious Seed

Is God ever unfair?

‘That’s not fair!’ is an expression we expect to hear from little children, but is surprisingly often heard from adults as well.Mankind seems to have a standard of behaviour by ...

Ian Rees

Your God is too small !!!

2005 Volume 60 Issue 4

Young Precious Seed

Is God ever unkind?

Of all the attributes that God possesses, the things that make Him who He is, which would you think was His most glorious? His omnipotence, perhaps, being able to do anything, or His ...

Ian Rees

Your God is too small !!!

2005 Volume 60 Issue 3

Young Precious Seed

Lot — A “Just Man” among Sinners

According to Genesis 11. 31, the relationship between Abraham and Lot was that of uncle and nephew. Lot’s father Haran died before Lot’s grandfather Terah ...

Ian Rees

1981 Volume 32 Issue 1

Study

Martin Luther – Hero of the Reformation

Do you have any heroes? Are Christians even allowed to have heroes? In October 1517 a little-known Augustinian monk, who was also a lecturer in theology in Witten ...

Ian Rees

2017 Volume 72 Issue 4

Study

Rachel

‘May God make you like Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah’. This blessing, pronounced over Jewish girl seven today, shows us the importance in the Jewish faith of these four women ...

Ian Rees

Old Testament Women Who Appear in the New Testament

2021 Volume 76 Issue 1

Devotional

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, t ...

Ian Rees

2017 Volume 72 Issue 3

Exposition

What can God do?

‘God Almighty’ is a name, or an expression, with which many people are familiar.The truth of it is something with which we can never be too familiar.What does God have power to d ...

Ian Rees

Your God is too small !!!

2005 Volume 60 Issue 2

Young Precious Seed

What does God know?

Though God is spirit and does not have a body as we do,He is a living spirit who can see and hear, (What does God look like?). As spirit being God is not bound to any partic ...

Ian Rees

Your God is too small !!!

2005 Volume 60 Issue 1

Young Precious Seed

What does God look like?

How often have we heard people describe a church building as the ‘house of God’? Most people would consider a church to be so. But does God really live in church buildings? < ...

Ian Rees

Your God is too small !!!

2004 Volume 59 Issue 3

Young Precious Seed

What does God look like?

What a question! Why should the appearance of God be so important? Surely that is a most trivial thing to ask. Is it? When you pray, what do you see in your mind’s eye? Is God, as ...

Ian Rees

Your God is too small !!!

2004 Volume 59 Issue 2

Young Precious Seed

Who made God?

Everything we see and know around us had a beginning. It was either conceived, germinated or made.Once it was not and now it is, and there will probably come a time when it will not ...

Ian Rees

Your God is too small !!!

2004 Volume 59 Issue 4

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Job

Better a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith Which of us has not preferred a simple meal with good companions ...

Ian Rees

Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World

2005 Volume 60 Issue 3

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Job

‘I have escaped by the skin of my teeth’, Job 19. 20 The English idiom ‘escaped by the skin of one’s teeth’ is deriv ...

Ian Rees

Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World

2005 Volume 60 Issue 2

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

‘The words of a talebearer are as wounds [dainty morsels], and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly’, Prov. 18. 8.

Ian Rees

Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World

2006 Volume 61 Issue 4

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised, Proverbs 31. 30 The NIV translates the first ...

Ian Rees

Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World

2006 Volume 61 Issue 2

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger, Proverbs 15. 1 The natural thing to do when someone is angry with you is t ...

Ian Rees

Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World

2006 Volume 61 Issue 1

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it, Prov. 11. 15. A friend of mine, with his wife, moved to Bath a while ago. ...

Ian Rees

Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World

2005 Volume 60 Issue 4

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

As a door turns upon its hinges, so does a sluggard upon his bed, Prov. 26. 14. The sluggard in the Bible is a tragic-comic character, one who ...

Ian Rees

Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World

2005 Volume 60 Issue 1

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

‘Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth; a stranger and not thine own lips’, Prov. 27. 2. There is surely nothing more insuff ...

Ian Rees

Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World

2004 Volume 59 Issue 4

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

‘If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward t ...

Ian Rees

Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World

2004 Volume 59 Issue 3

Young Precious Seed

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

Can a man take fire unto his bosom and not be burned?Proverbs 6. 27 Surely no one would be so daft as to pick ...

Ian Rees

Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World

2004 Volume 59 Issue 2

Young Precious Seed

Book Reviews by this Author

Stepping stones … through the Bible day by day

Edited by Ian Rees, illustrated by Honor Ayres Laminated flexible cover, 384pp, Published by Precious Seed Publications, PO Box 573, Fareham, PO14 9FB, ...

Ian Rees

2008 Volume 63 Issue 4

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