“search the scriptures” John 5:39

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Lloyd Stock
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Regulating the Renaissance
The digital age has spawned an amazing spread of knowledge, and the younger generations in particular are drinking it up. Lots of people have written about this from a secular perspective, but a quest…
Lloyd Stock
2014 Volume 69 Issue 4
Contemporary Issues
The Twelve Tribes of Israel
The greater portion of our Old Testament, and a significant portion of events yet future, hinge on matters that have to do with the twelve tribes of Israel. Spanning a period over two millennia means …
Lloyd Stock
Zebulon
2018 Volume 73 Issue 2
Exposition
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Ephraim and Manasseh
In the introduction to this series we explained how it was that Ephraim and Manasseh came to feature in the twelve tribes of Israel. Revisiting that introduction at this point is recommended, Precious…
Lloyd Stock
The Twelve Tribes of Israel
2021 Volume 76 Issue 1
Devotional
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Asher
Happiness and blessing We now come to Asher, so called because, as Leah said at his birth, ‘the daughters will call me blessed’, Gen. 30. 13.1 Like so many of the tribes’ names, Asher, meaning ‘happy’…
Lloyd Stock
2020 Volume 75 Issue 2
Exposition
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Benjamin
We have come to the end of our series on the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Along the way we have seen the hand of a gracious, sovereign God working out His purposes in spite of human failure. It is the sam…
Lloyd Stock
The Twelve Tribes of Israel
2021 Volume 76 Issue 2
Exposition
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Dan
Of all the tribes we have considered thus far, the tribe of Dan is perhaps the one which is most dismal. After the joy of observing God’s hand in the tribe of Judah, there are far fewer positive quali…
Lloyd Stock
2019 Volume 74 Issue 3
Exposition
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Gad
Regrettable contention In the order of birth that we have been following from Genesis chapters 29 and 30, the next son after Napthtali is Gad. ‘When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah…
Lloyd Stock
The Twelve Tribes of Israel
2020 Volume 75 Issue 1
Exposition
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Issachar
Scripture’s record of the tribe of Issachar is most interesting. There are several surprises as well as other details which are just plain obscure and difficult to unravel with any certainty. A quick …
Lloyd Stock
2020 Volume 75 Issue 3
Exposition
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Judah
In the introduction to this series we noted that along with Joseph, Judah dominates Jacob’s closing discourse in Genesis. We also noted the chronicler’s words, ‘Judah prevailed over his brethren’, 1 C…
Lloyd Stock
2019 Volume 74 Issue 2
Devotional
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Levi
An unpromising start We saw in our previous study that Levi and Simeon are jointly addressed by Jacob as he calls to mind their cruelty in the brutal murder of the men of Shechem. It is difficult to s…
Lloyd Stock
2019 Volume 74 Issue 1
Exposition
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Naphtali
In our series on the twelve tribes of Israel readers will have sensed that we reached a mountaintop whilst looking at Judah, so far as the purposes of God are concerned. We gave the reasons and backgr…
Lloyd Stock
The Twelve Tribes of Israel
2019 Volume 74 Issue 4
Devotional
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Simeon
A poor start The names of Jacob’s sons were all given by their mothers, with one exception.1 They are loaded with the angst and struggle that pervaded the family, though, again, Judah and Joseph are e…
Lloyd Stock
2018 Volume 73 Issue 4
Devotional
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Zebulun
As we near the end of this series on the tribes of Israel, we notice an awakening in Jacob’s home. Leah has put an end to relying on her handmaid, and God is back in her consciousness again – she clea…
Lloyd Stock
The Twelve Tribes of Israel
2020 Volume 75 Issue 4
Devotional
The Twelve Tribes of Israel: Reuben
Jacob’s final address to his sons is recorded in Genesis chapter 49 verses 3 and 4, ‘Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excel…
Lloyd Stock
2018 Volume 73 Issue 3
Exposition
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