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2008 Volume 63 Issue 4
Articles in this Issue
‘Ask…in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours’
Mark 11. 24 NIV. When severe drought hit a small farming community in the Midwest, a local church called a prayer meeting and everybody showed up. Crisis has a way of getting our attention! As the past…
UBC World for Today, Daily Reading
Exposition
2008 China’s Year!
A report compiled from several sources concerning the Beijing Olympics and Christian testimony There is no doubt that evangelicals saw the Beijing Olympics of 2008 as a great opportunity to enter and ev…
Keith Clayton
Report
A Time to Weep
The Preacher said that there is ‘a time to be born, and a time to die … a time to weep … a time to mourn’, Eccles. 3. 2-4. The longer one lives the more one loses friends and loved ones to death. ‘It is…
Donald L. Norbie
Exposition
Bits & Bobs
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS VIEWS ON VALUES Around two in every three adults think religious and spiritual values are important in a child’s development, according to a Children’s Society poll. But in the surve…
Stephen Baker
Report
Counsel Magazine
Editorial ‘After a conference in the Middle West (USA) a number of responsible brethren met to discuss the drift of our times and the need for clear, spiritual ministry amongst the saints. We were all a…
Brian Gunning
History
Discipleship
‘If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me’, Luke 9. 23. Cross bearing is not a once-for-all act, nor is it carrying the daily pressures of life tha…
Drew Craig
Exposition
Editorial
Afterward he appeared to the eleven … and upbraided them with their unbelief’, Mark 16. 14. The reading of Mark’s concluding chapter to his gospel is most challenging as well as disappointing. Twice he …
Ken Rudge
Editorial
Gospel Work and Other Activities
ENGLAND: MIDLANDS AND SOUTH Bethany Chapel, Lyme Regis Last February we reported in this magazine the annual door to door calendar distribution in Lyme Regis. Last December, one door knocked for that pu…
Stephen Baker
Report
Hark! Soon the trumpet soundeth
Hark soon the trumpet soundeth Thy people Lord set free In robes of light and glory Thy beauty they shall see Thy face in radiant splendour Thy brow with many crowns Thy wounds behold with wonder ‘Twas …
P K V
Poetry
Jacob and the Angels
Bethel – Genesis chapter 28 Jacob had gained the birthright from Esau by taking advantage of Esau’s appetite. We notice that the inspired narrative puts it that ‘Esau despised his birthright’, rather th…
J. Wesley Ferguson
Exposition
Parkside Hall, Maidenhead
During 2006 the assembly enjoyed times of real blessing and thanksgiving celebrating 50 years in the current Hall. There was an Open Day at the beginning of September when some of those who attended var…
Keith Clayton
History
Put off and put on
The battle begins The life of the believer involves a constant warfare. Before we were saved life was, in some ways, much easier. The sensitivity of the consciences of unbelievers varies enormously and …
Cliff Jones
Exposition
Question Time
Question The Breaking of Bread – When and where? Answer Most of us live busy lives and it is good at times to be able to get away and relax. When we are away does it really matter if we ‘remember the Lo…
Stephen Baker
Question Time
Sensual Religion
James is very strong in speaking of the world’s wisdom which guides its religion and practice. ‘This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic’, Jas. 3. 15. Its horizon is the…
Donald L. Norbie
Exposition
The Gospel Yesterday and Today
IntroductionWe may think that in this generation we have a more difficult time in communicating the gospel to lost mankind than in any previous generation. We can look back wistfully to earlier generati…
Howard Coles
Exposition
Views from the News
Police officer discriminated against for traditional beliefs PC Graham Cogman, has taken his police force to an Employment Tribunal on grounds of harassment because of his traditional Christian values. …
Stephen Baker
Report
Walk Before God
See Genesis 17. 1. Walk before God, and perfect be; Care not for human eyes, Which only what is outward see; To heaven’s standard rise. Be not afraid to let thy ways – Each thought, each word, each deed…
Keith Clayton
Poetry
Book Reviews in this Issue
The Dawn of Heaven Breaks
Paperback, 156pp. Published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH. Price £8.95 ISBN 978-0-85234-641-9 Sharon James has collected an anthology of hymns, Bible readings and other wr…
Sharon James
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Angola Beloved
Paperback, 216pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly Street West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Price £6.99 ISBN 978-1-897117-44-2 This is a welcome updated edition of a book first publ…
T. Ernest Wilson
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