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Ian Rees
Articles by this Author
‘Wonna bet?’
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 changes will soon be obvi…
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 has done nothing …
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 journey down the birth ca…
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 leadership in the local assembly is centred around men who are shepherds of God’s people and who have the responsibili…
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, betrayal and loyalty,…
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 Supper, ‘the same night i…
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. They had also heard…
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 priests’. One would have tho…
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 so honest, often op…
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 named Edward, or George. The firs…
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, but the Jews had a r…
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 upon him, but he is m…
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 one, and Jesus in the mids…
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 what He had said to the J…
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 other two were involved in H…
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 sphere of service for Hi…
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 and the boys lived …
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 which it judges whether…
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 omniscience, in t…
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, v. 28, and Lot associated himself with 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 Wittenberg University, Germany, made his way…
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, known in Jewish tradit…
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, therefore, understands …
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 do? God has power in cr…
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 particular place at a particular …
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? God is not confined to a pl…
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 Michaelangelo famous…
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 be any longer. Our…
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 to a feast with those with whom we do not get on? The for…
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 derived from this graphic expression in the book of Job. One of the main themes of the bo…
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. This little proverb is so important that it is stated twice, here and …
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 part of this proverb as, ‘Charm is deceptive and beauty i…
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 to reply in anger: yet how often we regret the words once …
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. John had emigrated from Botswana to the UK to read for a post-graduate de…
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 is lazy to the point of ridicule and full of excuses, man…
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 insufferable than having to listen to someone who is full of himsel…
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 thee’, Prov. 25. 21-22. ‘Hea…
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 up a handful of burning coals from the embers of a fire and place them on one’s chest.To d…
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, UK. Distributed in UK by John Ritchie Ltd., or d…
Ian Rees
2008 Volume 63 Issue 4
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