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2006 Volume 61 Issue 4
Articles in this Issue
‘Ye are fallen from grace’
Galatians 5. 4. This verse is at the centre of a section of Galatians in which the bondage of the law and the liberty of grace are contrasted. Chapters 3 and 4 drew a contrast between our liberty in son…
J. Wesley Ferguson
Exposition
1 Corinthians 9-10
1 Corinthians 9 and 10 – Part 3 OUTLINE1. Warnings from Israel’s history in the wilderness, 10. 1-14(i) Israel’s blessings, vv. 1-4 (ii) Israel’s sins, vv. 5-10 (iii) Conclusions : Don’t ignore, v. 11 D…
Malcolm Horlock
Studies in 1 Corinthians
Study
A History of ‘The Haven’
The Haven ministry to the chronically addicted in Nassau, Bahamas, was started by a group from the assemblies in Nassau, in 1986. It was the result of prayer meetings seeking God’s guidance concerning t…
Mark Lacey (1)
History
Abortion – The Moral Maze
‘I don’t think that infanticide (the killing of infants) is always unjustifiable. I don’t think it is plausible to think that there is any moral change that occurs during the journey down the birth cana…
Ian Rees
Young Precious Seed
Adjusting to permanent change
A French proverbs reads, ‘Trouble arrives like galloping horses’. Someone added, ‘And it leaves slowly, step by step’. There is no doubt that sudden, radical changes do arise in our lives totally unexpe…
James R. Cochrane
Daniel, a Man for all seasons
Exposition
An Alert Assembly
The privileges and the perils A New Testament ‘assembly’ is a group of believers, once sinners, but now converted and baptized and who recognize their Saviour as Lord. They gather to His Name and contin…
Roy Hill
Exposition
Anna – Just an Old Woman?
‘She spake of him’, Luke 2. 38. She was faithful despite declineEveryone who visited the temple would have known Anna. ‘She was of a great age’, Luke 2. 36, and ‘a widow of about fourscore and four year…
Jim Voisey
Exposition
Bible Study
Although it is an honour to engage in the immensely rewarding task of Bible study, make no mistake, it’s hard work! The Bible calls its students labourers, 2 Tim 2. 15. With that in mind it might be hel…
Michael Penfold
Young Precious Seed
Burmah Road Gospel Hall, Penang, Malaysia
Penang State has one part on the mainland of the Malaysian peninsula with the other part being an island off its north-west coast. It is linked to the mainland by the longest (13km) bridge in Asia and b…
History
Divine, Infinite Dimensiions
As believers we are aware that God is infinitely greater than us. For example, He is omnipotent, all-powerful, omniscient, all knowing and omnipresent, everywhere at the same time. We can enter in some …
Bernard Avery
Exposition
Does God appoint the rulers of this world and does He control their decisions?
QUESTION Does God appoint the rulers of this world and does He control their decisions? ANSWER It would appear from scripture that political appointments and the administration of the world are controll…
Howard Coles
Exposition
Editorial
‘And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren’, Acts 7. 23. Quite a remarkable statement this! It has to do with the time – ‘when he was full forty years old’, the …
Ken Rudge
Editorial
Eternal Security
The previous article looked at the opening verses of Hebrews 6. In the final section of the chapter, vv. 13-20, the writer builds upon those previous verses to present the evidence for the eternal secur…
John Bennett
Eternal Security
Exposition
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Bicester Four weeks of tent meetings took place in a park in Bicester from 23rd July until 20th August. Leslie Craig from Northern Ireland conducted children’s meetings in th…
Stephen Baker
Report
Heroes of the Faith – Martin Luther
With hammer blows that echoed around the vast Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, a young monk named Martin Luther nailed to the church door a document on which he had written ninety five ‘theses‘whic…
Shawn Abigail
Testimony
I have a Friend
I have a Friend whose faithful loveIs more than all the world to me‘Tis higher than the heights above,And deeper than the soundless sea:So old, so new, so strong, so true;Before the earth received its f…
C. A. Tydeman
Poetry
In Vain or Not in Vain?
Ps 127. 1, 2; 1 Cor. 15. 58. Though men may plan and work and buildTo make themselves a name,And spend their energy and timeTo heap up wealth and fame:’Twill crumble into worthless dust,Prove loss inste…
C. Deayton
Poetry
Part 1. Christ and Principalities and Powers
A STUDY OF THESE TERMS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. Throughout the whole of the Bible, there is mention, and evidence, of ‘principalities and powers’ but it is a subject seldom dealt with in Christian literatu…
C. E. Green
Principalities and Powers
Exposition
Some Thoughts on Godliness
1 Timothy 3. 15-16; Titus 2. 11-12; 2 Peter 3. 10-11. Background In dealing with this subject, we have to satisfy ourselves that we understand what is meant by ‘godliness’. Some have thought in terms of…
Barry King
Some Thoughts on Godliness
Exposition
The Church in Ephesus
REVELATION 2. 1-7 THE CHURCH ADDRESSED ‘To the angel of the church of Ephesus’, v. 1a. The church in Ephesus ranks among the most privileged in the New Testament, having benefitted from the labours of …
Malcolm Horlock
The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia Minor
Exposition
The Devotion of Youth
God speaks wistfully through the prophet Jeremiah to Israel, ‘I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothal. When you went after me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. Israel…
Donald L. Norbie
Young Precious Seed
The Fruit of the Spirit is Self control
Gal. 5. 22-23 This article is the final part in this interesting series on the fruit of the Spirit. Temperance, self-control, the noun is found only three times in our New Testament, Acts 24. 25; Gal. 5…
Bernard Osborne
The Fruit Of The Spirit
Exposition
The One Gospel and its Freedom
CHAPTERS 5-6 – A QUESTION OF LIFESTYLE We progress in the third and final major part of Galatians Principle: Is the gospel outward rules or inward reality that changes us? Central question: How do we …
Randal Amos
Studies in Galatians
Study
The Problem of The Problem of Obesity
Is there a problem with being obese? Most Christians take a strong stand against certain sins. There is a holy rejection of sexual immorality, whether it be adultery, fornication or homosexuality. The p…
Donald L. Norbie
Exposition
Views from the News
MALAYSIAN PRIME MINISTER CALLS FOR RESTRICTIONS ON EVANGELIZING MUSLIMS Most of Malaysia’s sixteen states have laws which prohibit the propagation of other religions amongst Muslims. Recently Malaysia’s…
Unknown
Report
Who Cares?
Without doubt, to have a faith focused on Christ, which fights in earnest and functions in love, is really something, especially in our society today. Our current culture is concerned with the visible a…
Unknown
Exposition
Wise words from the book of Proverbs
‘The words of a talebearer are as wounds [dainty morsels], and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly’, Prov. 18. 8. This little proverb is so important that it is stated twice, here and in…
Ian Rees
Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World
Young Precious Seed
Book Reviews in this Issue
Being a Christian Husband
Paperback, 116pp. Published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North Ind. Est., Darlington. DL3 0PH. Price £6.95, ISBN 0 85234 577 1. This is an unusual book in that this reviewer has seen very little wr…
Colin Hamer
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Day by Day – Bible Commands
Edited by John Bennett Paperback, 384pp. Published by Precious Seed Publications, PO Box 8, Neath, West Glamorgan, SA11. 1QB, UK. Price £8.95 ISBN 1-871642-19-1 In his introduction to the tenth volume…
John Bennett
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Hold Your Course
Paperback, 200pp. Published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North Ind. Est., Darlington. DL3 0PH. Price £8. 95, ISBN 0 85234 592 5. The author has a number of books in print and has contributed severa…
Roger Ellsworth
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The Kingdom – What the Bible teaches about the Kingdom of God
Paperback, 76pp. Published by Authorhouse at www.authorhouse.co.uk and available from the author at 15 The Cedars, Albert Park Road, Malvern, WR14 1 HW. Price £7.25, ISBN 1 4208 5731 2. Initially, thi…
Fredderick L. Pontin
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