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2005 Volume 60 Issue 1
Articles in this Issue
Contemporary Praise and Worship
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 it1 and examine its fruit.2 Alt…
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 Cumberland and Westmoreland Gospel Tent’. It was the vision of two Chri…
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 measuring 9 on the Richter sc…
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 following comment, ‘I believe that 1 Corinthians chapter 11 verses 1 to 16 is a …
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 day the Lord will return, the key words for our encouragement …
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 after seeing the invitation in…
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 the 1960’s David was …
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 has grown over the …
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 concerning the beginnings of assembly testimony in the town of S…
Ken Rudge
History
Studies in 2 Thessalonians
CHAPTER 2 Outline of the chapter The Appeal, vv. 1 – 2. Paul’s Personal Exhortation v. 1 Decision The Subject of It - ‘brethren’; v. 2 Discretion The Aim of It - ‘not quickly shaken’; The Reason for…
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 Welsh Revival’. Rem…
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 and the Levites’, 2 Chr. 19. 4; ‘And he commanded the priests’, v. 21; ’the king commanded’,…
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 nothing. 2. ‘If I have not love’- I am nothing. 3…
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, wisdom and majesty of God. We are ‘fearfully and wonderfully mad…
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. The question is, ‘Wh…
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 blessing and felt that at the end of the day he would have …
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 instructions from God to an assembly of Christians, 1 Cor. 14. 33, 40, and …
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 particular place at a particular ti…
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 love has been denigrated to the s…
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 lazy to the point of ridicule and full of excuses, many …
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 This book is a collection of short articles previously published i…
Phil Coulson
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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 from John Ritchie Ltd and prices are: Deluxe £…
John Bennett
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