Articles for the Issue –

2005 Volume 60 Issue 1

Articles in this Issue

The pressure to embrace ‘contemporary praise and worship’ (CPW) is mounting, but before making any changes, the Lord’s people in assembly fellowship would be wise to test it ...

Michael Penfold

Contemporary Issues

Cumbria Gospel Outreach

THE LAUNCH The year 1912 saw the launch of the great ship ‘Titanic’. It was this year that another enterprise was launched – ‘The Cumber ...

John Heron

Report

Destructive Tsunami in India

Some Christian families were affected by the terrible earthquake and killer tsunami tidal wave that followed in the wake of the recent tragedy here in India. The earthquake mea ...

Michael Browne

Report

Does 1 Corinthians 11. 1-16 deal with matters of culture?

Question Does 1 Corinthians 11. 1-16 deal with matters of culture? Answer An overseas enquirer recently wrote in with the f ...

Howard Coles

Question Time

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 d ...

Ken Rudge

Editorial

Gospel Work and Other Activities

ENGLAND The believers in Guildford have been inviting people to a gospel outreach course in the Gospel Hall. They report about a man called ‘J’ who came to the Gospel Hall ...

Stephen Baker

Report

Kingfisher christian camp trust

The faithful work undertaken by David and Elsie Willcox amongst the assemblies of God’s people in the South of England was, and still is, held in the highest esteem. As long ago as t ...

Howard Coles

Organisations

Schools Outreach in Northamptonshire

Since 2001 the Lord has been pleased to open up to us a work here in Northampton enabling us to reach schools in the shire with the gospel. By the grace and enabling of God this work h ...

Wyn Williams

Organisations

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 concern ...

Ken Rudge

History

Studies in 2 Thessalonians

CHAPTER 2 Outline of the chapter The Appeal, vv. 1 – 2. Paul’s Personal Exhortation

Tom Bentley

Studies in 2 Thessalonians

Study

The 1904 Welsh Revival

In 1904, just one hundred years ago, the principality of Wales was rocked and deeply altered by a great outpouring of the Spirit of God. It was a phenomenon that became known as ‘The ...

Paul Young

History

The Central Role of the King

His Command It is worth noting the central position that Hezekiah plays. We read: 'he brought in the priests ...

John Bennett

Hezekiah’s Revival

Exposition

The Fruit of the Spirit is Love

Paul’s introduction to his great hymn of love in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 is very searching. Basically it is as follows: 1. ‘If I have not love’- I have not ...

Bernard Osborne

The Fruit Of The Spirit

Exposition

The God rich in Mercy

Our God is ‘plenteous in mercy’ The wonderful and beautiful creation, of which we are a part, reveals something of the power, knowledge, wis ...

Cliff Jones

The God of …

Exposition

The Message of the book of Daniel

The book of Daniel is the answer to a question. A question which agitated the world in Daniel’s day, and now, some 2,600 years later, still deeply concerns the nations of the world. ...

John E. Todd

Exposition

The Record of a Family Tragedy

Genesis 25. 20-26; 27. 1-40 The old man called his favourite son, and sent him out to hunt. He was encouraged by the assurance of the paternal bl ...

Gordon L. Bissett

Exposition

Timeless truths about the local assembly

The Church – its nurture ‘God is not the author of confusion but of peace’ - ‘Let everything be done decently and in order'are instructio ...

Unknown

Behaving Ourselves in the House of God

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 particul ...

Ian Rees

Your God is too small !!!

Young Precious Seed

What is Love?

Today the word ‘love’ has been sadly abused by this post-modern culture. Many think of love as ‘sexual’ love alone. A rap star sings, ‘Let’s do like the animals do!’ So l ...

Donald L. Norbie

Exposition

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 ...

Ian Rees

Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World

Young Precious Seed

Book Reviews in this Issue

Great Truths of the Bible

By Phil Coulson. Paperback, 48 pp, Published by John Ritchie Ltd., 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, KA3 1RH. Price £3.50. ISBN 1-904064-25-6

Phil Coulson

On-Line Bible version 1.41

On-Line Bible Foundation, 12 Birkfield Place, Carluke, Midlothian, Scotland. Timnathserah Inc, 11 Homewood Street, Winterbourne, Ontario, Canada. Available fro ...

John Bennett

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