1990 Volume 41 Issue 1 - Precious Seed | A UK registered charity working to encourage the study of the scriptures

Being Ignorant of God’s Righteousness, Rom. 10. 3

The same mistake which proved so fatal to the Jews, proves equally fatal to many who pretend to call themselves Christians. Ignorant alike of the divine character and their own, they ...

None Assigned

Practical

Gospel Work and Other Assembly Activities – January-February 1990

Introduction ‘… with God nothing shall be impossible’, Luke 1. 37. At the beginning of the year it is good to give thanks for ...

Arthur Shearman

Report

Grace, Its Twofold Aspect

In the first instance, grace is that principle, in contrast to demand as exemplified by the law, on which God has acted, and continues to act, towards mankind. Many passages in the N ...

M. S. Staveley

Study

Joseph the Carpenter

It is interesting that in Deuteronomy 33, when Moses is speaking of the blessing of Joseph, he says that he handled ‘the precious things of heaven’. Similarly Jacob, in Genesis 4 ...

Roy Hill

Devotional

Lordly Glory

It is the dark background of the context that enhances the brilliance of the glory of these verses. Therefore when [Judas] was gone out…’ - out into the night of that most wicked ...

J. Boyd Nicholson

Lessons in John 13 from the Lips of the Master

Exposition

A Presence Which Strengthens

Surely they must have misheard him? ‘Expedient for you that I go away’. How could that be? Surely He said ‘Expedient for Me’. That would be intelligible. It might be well for ...

Bernard Osborne

The Holy Spirit in the Gospel of John

Exposition

Principles of the Kingdom

How to interpret the sermon on the mount has given rise to much disagreement among bible teachers. Some regard it as a summary of Matthew’s gospel, others as basically moralistic d ...

Tom Wilson (3)

The Sermon on the Mount

Exposition

Self-Examination

It is well known and recognized that we can learn spiritual lessons from homely, everyday things and events. The Lord Himself often used homely analogies to teach great spiritual tru ...

M. S. Staveley

Practical

Some Aspects of the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit

The Prayer for the Spirit. ‘I will pray the Father’. ...

A. C. Parry

Study

They Feared the Lord … They Thought Upon His Name

It has never been an easy matter to ‘fear the Lord’ amidst growing evil and unbelief. Modern experience confirms this and Malachi’s day must have been an extreme illustration o ...

R. V. Court

Practical

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