“search the scriptures” John 5:39

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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
‘Go ye into the whole World’ – But how?
1. The Role of New Testament Missionaries New Testament missionaries stand in a long line of God’s spokesmen ever since the fall of mankind into sin and the subsequent promise of a coming Saviour in Gen…
Malcolm C. Davis
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
Adoration and the woman of Luke Chapter 7
An extract from God Holds the Key by Geoffrey Bull. The normal attitude of the sanctified is prostration in the sanctuary. To bow down there, is not only their highest obligation but their greatest blis…
Geoffrey Bull
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
Collecting the Lord’s Bounty
2 Corinthians 9 verses 6 to 8 ‘Now take note here – the man who sows sparingly, sparingly too shall reap, and the man who sows on terms of largess, on terms of largess shall reap; the full willing gift…
Handley C. G. Moule
Exposition
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
Ehud and Shamgar
EHUD – The Scourge of Moab, Judges 3. 12-30 SHAMGAR –The Slayer of Philistines, Judges 3. 31 I recall as a boy having a morbid fascination with the story of Ehud. The daring plan, the intrigue and the g…
John Scarsbrook
The Days when the Judges ruled
Exposition
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
Lessons from Antioch
A study in Acts 11. 19-30, 13. 1-3. Background a) Antioch Just a dozen or so miles from the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea stood Antioch – the third largest city of the area. It had a population …
Barry King
Lessons from Antioch
Exposition
‘Look at the ant …’
Prov. 6. 6. Too many of us are waiting for someone to come along and tell us what to do next. The story is told of a man who was employed by a Duke and Duchess. One day he was called into speak to his e…
UBC World for Today, Daily Reading
Exposition
Parenting Adolescents – Boundaries and Caring Support
  Scripture quotations are from the NIV   Adolescence is the most chaotic and stressful of all stages of family life. One humorist described it this way, ‘As children grow from 13 to 18, paren…
James P. Trotzen
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
Rebuilding the Wall
Neh. 3. 9-32. In the first article we had looked at i) the priestly men, and ii) the ruling men, and now we continue with: iii) The professional men ‘Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah,…
John Riddle
Studies in the Book of Nehemiah
Exposition
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 Christ of Prophecy (1/1)
The birth of the Lord Jesus Christ in Bethlehem was not an unheralded event. The whole of the Old Testament, from Genesis to Malachi, spoke of the Coming One. He was to be the Anointed One, that is the …
John E. Todd
The Eternal Christ
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
The Song of Solomon
Love’s Fullness Introduction In previous studies we have looked at the Song under the following general headings: Love’s fellowship (Chapters 1 and 2), Love’s fears (Chapters 3 to 5a) and Love’s faithfu…
Andrew Wilson
Studies in the Song of Solomon
Study
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
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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Beyond Bars. Looking inside the inside story
Paperback, 140pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster HR6 8NZ, UK Price £7, ISBN 978-1-846250-94-1 GERARD CHRISPIN, director of DAYLIGHT Christian Prison Trust, writes a telli…
Gernard Chrispin
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Happily Ever After? Avoiding the pains of divorce
Paperback, 64pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster HR6 8NZ, UK Price £4, ISBN 978-1-846250-96-5 In a frank and often hard-hitting book MARTIN HOLDT tackles an issue that is …
Martin Holdt
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Is that you Lord? Hearing the voice of the Lord
Paperback, 112pp. Published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH. Price £6.95 ISBN 978-0-85234-652-5 In a world which places so much emphasis on the subjective, the professing ch…
Gary E. Gilley
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Stepping stones … through the Bible day by day
Edited by Ian Rees, illustrated by Honor Ayres Laminated flexible cover, 384pp, Published by Precious Seed Publications, PO Box 573, Fareham, PO14 9FB, UK. Distributed in UK by John Ritchie Ltd., or dir…
Ian Rees
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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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