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‘Fire Safety – Risk Assessment Small and Medium Places of Assembly’

A change in the law affecting Fire Safety New fire safety rules affecting all non-domestic premises in England and Wales came into force on the ...

Ken Rudge

2007 Volume 62 Issue 1

Report

A Personal Word About Something Personal

“There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not”, the fourth being “the way of a man with a maid”, Prov. 30. 18, 19. The inspired writer t ...

Ken Rudge

1982 Volume 33 Issue 3

Young Believer’s Section

Arthur Shearman

Our dear brother and fellow committee member, Arthur Shearman has decided, because of increasing age and his many commitments, to resign from the work of Precious Seed Committee. ...

Ken Rudge

Gospel Work and other Assembly Activities – January-February, 1979

Jeremiah – Prophet of Faithfulness and Compassion

Gospel Work and Other Assembly Activities – January-February 1978

Gospel Work and Other Assembly Activities – September-October 1978

2002 Volume 57 Issue 4

Report

Arthur Shearman 1923 – 2014

In the home call of Arthur Shearman, the assemblies have lost a ‘brother indeed’. His longstanding commitment to a very broad range of the Lord’s work throughout his life mad ...

Ken Rudge

2015 Volume 70 Issue 1

History

Born Again

Becoming a Christian is a staggering event. The Scriptures provide us with a variety of terms to help us understand what it means. As we mention briefly a few of these, the wonder of ...

Ken Rudge

1986 Volume 37 Issue 5

Young People’s and Bible Students’ Section

Editorial

‘Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching’, Luke 12. 37. Seeing that we do not know at what time of any ...

Ken Rudge

2005 Volume 60 Issue 1

Editorial

We are encouraged, as we publish yet another issue of the magazine, to receive so many letters and emails from believers speaking of the benefit they are getting from its contents. T ...

Ken Rudge

2003 Volume 58 Issue 3

Editorial

‘Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ, who risked their own necks for my life, to whom … I give thanks’, 1 Cor. 16. 3, 4.

Ken Rudge

2004 Volume 59 Issue 4

Editorial

‘And Jesus came … saying, ‘All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them … teaching them … and, lo, I am ...

Ken Rudge

2004 Volume 59 Issue 3

Editorial

'if we deny him, he also will deny us: if we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself’, 2 Tim. 2. 12, 13. In this, the fi ...

Ken Rudge

2004 Volume 59 Issue 2

Editorial

‘Son, go work today in my vineyard’, Matt. 21. 28. The question that provoked the exchange between the Lord and the chief priests and elder ...

Ken Rudge

2004 Volume 59 Issue 1

Editorial

‘And now I exhort you to be of good cheer …wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer’, Acts 27. 22, 25. < ...

Ken Rudge

2003 Volume 58 Issue 4

Editorial

And he said, ‘Lord I believe’. And he worshipped him. John 9. 38. The defence of the man that ...

Ken Rudge

2003 Volume 58 Issue 2

Editorial

‘Therefore seeing we have received this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not’. 2 Cor. 4. 1. In the things of God there ...

Ken Rudge

2003 Volume 58 Issue 1

Editorial

‘Hezekiah was sick and near death, and he prayed to the Lord; and He spoke to him and gave him a sign. But Hezekiah did not repay according to the favour shown him for his ...

Ken Rudge

2002 Volume 57 Issue 4

Editorial

The greatest of all pursuits must be the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. The easier knowledge is always the academic and theoretical one. The one that actually effects the way we ...

Ken Rudge

2002 Volume 57 Issue 3

Editorial

‘REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE’, Luke 17. 25. The Lord provides no amplification of this reference to Lot’s wife. He just calls upon His hearers ...

Ken Rudge

2002 Volume 57 Issue 2

Editorial

As we face yet another year of pilgrimage, one of the greatest needs that confront us as individuals or as local churches, is to evangelize. In the words of Scr ...

Ken Rudge

2002 Volume 57 Issue 1

Editorial

The events of the past month will not be easily forgotten. Even now the silent images of the jet aircraft, as they hurtled into the World Trade Organisation’s ...

Ken Rudge

2001 Volume 56 Issue 4

Editorial

The Precious Seed Magazine was first published as an eight page, black and white pamphlet, produced under the severe restrictions of paper shortages as a result of the Second World W ...

Ken Rudge

2001 Volume 56 Issue 3

Editorial

‘I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, which is a servant of the church’, Rom. 16. 1. Demetrius hath a good report of all men … we also bear record’, 3 John 12.

Ken Rudge

2005 Volume 60 Issue 3

Editorial

We probably feel that Moses had every good reason to run away from this rod that had suddenly become a serpent! But the incident was the Lord’s response to Moses’ own expressions ...

Ken Rudge

2005 Volume 60 Issue 2

Editorial

‘But she of her want did cast in all that she had’, Mark 12. 44. It is with mixed feelings that I approach the writing of this my final edi ...

Ken Rudge

2009 Volume 64 Issue 2

Editorial

‘The scribes and the Pharisees … whatsoever they bid you observe that observe and do; but do ye not after their works’, Matt. 23. 2, 3. ...

Ken Rudge

2009 Volume 64 Issue 1

Editorial

Afterward he appeared to the eleven … and upbraided them with their unbelief’, Mark 16. 14. The reading of Mark’s concluding chapter to h ...

Ken Rudge

2008 Volume 63 Issue 4

Editorial

‘This heap is a witness between me and thee’, Gen. 31. 44. ‘God is witness between me and thee’, Gen. 31. 50. The thirty-first chapter ...

Ken Rudge

2008 Volume 63 Issue 3

Editorial

I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God, and said, ‘O my God, I am ashamed and blush’, Ezra 9. 5-6. There is no ...

Ken Rudge

2008 Volume 63 Issue 2

Editorial

‘And he (Elijah) repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down’, 1 Kgs. 18. 30. At times we utterly fail to appreciate the immense c ...

Ken Rudge

2008 Volume 63 Issue 1

Editorial

‘Take unto thee sweet spices … the perfume … shall be … holy for the Lord’, Exod. 30. 34, 37. For m ...

Ken Rudge

2007 Volume 62 Issue 4

Editorial

‘The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth’, 2 John 1. The first thing that caught my attention was that this ‘l ...

Ken Rudge

2007 Volume 62 Issue 3

Editorial

‘When the LORD brought back the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream’. ‘Bring back our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south’, Ps. ...

Ken Rudge

2007 Volume 62 Issue 2

Editorial

‘And they sang together … praising and giving thanks unto the Lord … But many wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy’, Ezra 3. 11, 12. < ...

Ken Rudge

2007 Volume 62 Issue 1

Editorial

‘And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren’, Acts 7. 23. Quite a remarkable statement this! It has ...

Ken Rudge

2006 Volume 61 Issue 4

Editorial

‘But … he had compassion on him and went to him’, Luke 10. 33, 34 I am writing this editorial sitting in the dinning room ...

Ken Rudge

2006 Volume 61 Issue 3

Editorial

‘Behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne’, Rev. 4. 2. The more our society becomes ...

Ken Rudge

2006 Volume 61 Issue 2

Editorial

‘And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them, Luke 24. 50. Once a ...

Ken Rudge

2006 Volume 61 Issue 1

Editorial

Jesus answering said unto him, ‘Simon I have somewhat to say unto thee’, Luke 7. 40. Jesus ‘answering’ … but Simon had not asked any ...

Ken Rudge

2005 Volume 60 Issue 4

Editorial

Gospel Work and Other Activities

EIRE David and Kay Stevens have used the summer opportunities to preach the gospel many times and are grateful to the Lord for the frequent openings this has provided to spe ...

Ken Rudge

2001 Volume 56 Issue 1

Report

Gospel Work and Other Activities

NORTHERN IRELAND ANTRIM A number of unsaved were attending gospel meetings held at Ahoghill when R. McKeown and W. Martin were there. Some ...

Ken Rudge

2000 Volume 55 Issue 1

Report

Gospel Work and Other Activities

IRELAND CO. CORK The three small assemblies in Co. Cork were greatly encouraged as they held their fifty-fifth Annual Conference for ministry in Bandon Gr ...

Ken Rudge

2000 Volume 55 Issue 2

Report

Gospel Work and Other Activities

EIRE CO. LIMERICK Continue to pray for the work of the evangelistic teams at work in Limerick and Enniscorthy over the s ...

Ken Rudge

2000 Volume 55 Issue 3

Report

Gospel Work and Other Activities

EIRE The annual Postal Bible School holiday week, conducted by Noel and Liza McMeekin, and held in Avoca, was attended by one hundred and two of the stude ...

Ken Rudge

2000 Volume 55 Issue 4

Report

Gospel Work and Other Activities

EIRE CO. CORK Sadly, the annual Bandon Conference meetings had to be postponed almost at the last minute, due to the precautions needful on ...

Ken Rudge

2001 Volume 56 Issue 2

Report

Gospel Work and Other Assembly Activities – January-March 1999

‘Give ye them to eat’, Mark 6. 37. Thus the Lord, at a moment of intense pressure and amidst their feelings of inadequacy, challenges the disciples to lo ...

Ken Rudge

1999 Volume 54 Issue 1

Report

In the Days of Elijah

Thoughts on some of the ‘remnant companies’ of scripture It would seem that in every time of departure and decline spi ...

Ken Rudge

2022 Volume 77 Issue 4

Exhortation

Millennium Matters

In the past few issues of the magazine we have asked for contributions concerning any preparations that use the occasion of the transfer from the second to the third Millennium for s ...

Ken Rudge

1999 Volume 54 Issue 3

Contemporary Issues

My Responsibility to the Local Church

Coming as I did from a Church of England background, there was a lot for me to come to terms with when I was first introduced to a local Christian assembly. In some ways, however, I ...

Ken Rudge

1981 Volume 32 Issue 6

Young People’s and Bible Students’ Section

Out of Necessity Came Nurture

Over the years the Lord had consistently blessed the gospel testimony of the assembly at St. Austell to the point that there were a number of middle-aged adults who had professed fai ...

Ken Rudge

1998 Volume 53 Issue 4

Exposition

Revival – God’s Emergency Plan

REVIVAL – THE TERMINOLOGY There are seven terms used to express the truth that underpins the experience and some we can group together as hav ...

Ken Rudge

2002 Volume 57 Issue 4

Exposition

Seymour Gospel Hall

SLADES ROAD, ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL Some years ago now I was sent the following extract from a journal that had been written in about 1950 conce ...

Ken Rudge

2005 Volume 60 Issue 1

History

The Holy Spirit and the Gospel

We now look at the operations of the Holy Spirit of God as He sovereignly directs the purposes of God through the gospel for this age. We shall do so in five sections as follows:

Ken Rudge

1997 Volume 52 Issue 5

Exposition

The Two Beasts of Revelation 13; Satan’s Master Delusion

We are living in unnerving times. Daily our society produces items of news that provide us, as believers, with an ever deepening concern regarding just where we are heading and what ...

Ken Rudge

Prophetic Insights

1999 Volume 54 Issue 2

Devotional

Turkey – Cradle of New Testament Christianity

The covers of the 1998 Precious Seed magazine feature pictures from a visit paid to the sites of the seven churches in Asia during the summer of 1996. They are of course in Turkey � ...

Ken Rudge

1998 Volume 53 Issue 1

Contemporary Issues

What about Spiritual Gifts?

Sooner or later all young believers come up against the subject of spiritual gifts. This may arise because someone is urging them to “use their gift”, or simply ...

Ken Rudge

1985 Volume 36 Issue 3

Exposition

Wise words from the book of Proverbs

‘For him that is joined to all living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion’, Eccles. 9. 4. To understand where Solomo ...

Ken Rudge

Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World

2006 Volume 61 Issue 3

Young Precious Seed

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