1981 Volume 32 Issue 2 - Precious Seed | A UK registered charity working to encourage the study of the scriptures

‘Occupy till I come’, Luke 19.13

The Lord told two similar parables, viz. that of the talents, recorded in Matthew 25. 14-30, and that of the pounds, recorded in Luke 19. 11-27. Both illustrate the r ...

A. E. Long

Till He Come

Exposition

A Course Finished with Joy, 2 Timothy 4. 6-8

The apostle Paul is writing from a prison cell in Rome. Humanly speak-ing, the outlook is bleak as the shad-ows lengthen over his life and career. He recognizes t ...

Dennis MacKinnon

Exposition

Barnabas the Exhorter – A Pen Portrait

In Old Testament days, the people of Israel were divided into three cate-gories – worshippers, workers and war-riors. The priests were set apart for the worship of Jehovah, the Levit ...

A. Naismith

Exposition

Do You Pray for the Lord’s Servants?

Do our prayers at home after the morning reading of Scripture, or dur-ing the assembly prayer meetings, tend to become formal without real exer-cise before the throne of grace? Having ...

John Heading

Exposition

Gospel Work and other Assembly Activities

"The signs of the times”, Matt. 16. 3. The context of this phrase is one of con-demnation. Those who were custodians of the truth of God were the objects of suc ...

Arthur Shearman

Report

Some Thoughts on 1 Peter

One of the recurring questions with which a travelling preacher is con-fronted is that posed by human suffering. There is, of course, no easy answer to this, especially to the one ques ...

Bryan Jenkins

Exposition

The Civil Trials

There followed The Civil Trials – also in three parts. (1) Before Pilate. The Sanhedrin brought Jesus to Pilate, and accused Him of saying tha ...

Dr. John Boyd

The Lord’s Passion

Exposition

The Inspiration of the Book of Genesis

There has been much attention paid in recent times to the historical and archaeological aspects of the first book of the Bible, which has been called the seed-bed of every major theme. ...

Duncan Conway

Exposition

The Presence of Christ

Both Enoch and Noah, we are told, walked with God. This does not refer merely to some specific occasion, but to that which characterized their daily pathway down here. Each of them liv ...

Edward Robinson

Exposition

To Live is Christ

When the apostle Paul wrote to the Christians at Philippi, he could say, “to me to live is Christ”, Phil. 1. 21. Whatever life meant to others, to Paul it meant simply “Chris ...

Mervyn Jones

Young People’s and Bible Students’ Section

Treaty of Doom

What will happen immediately follow-ing the rapture of the Church? This is a question often posed by Christians today. The short general answer is that a period will ensue on earth int ...

G. B. Fyfe

Prophetic Profile

Exposition

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