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Bits & Bobs

SOFTWARE FIRM GIVES NEW WINGS TO MAF A specialist mission relief agency, whose planes fly aid, missionaries and development workers to thousands ...

Deut. 6. 5

‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart’, Deut. 6. 5 Modern life is custom made for role playing. We live in a neighborhood all our lives ...

Anonymous

Gideon – the weak confounding the mighty (5/1)

Editorial

‘But she of her want did cast in all that she had’, Mark 12. 44. It is with mixed feelings that I approach the writing of this my final edito ...

Ken Rudge

Editorial

PART 1 If the question were asked, ‘Who are the outstanding characters in the book of Judges?’ we could not fail to think of those like Debor ...

John Scarsbrook

The Days when the Judges ruled

Gospel Work and Other Activities

HOLIDAY BIBLE CLUB AT GUILDFORD REPORT The assembly at Guildford organized a ‘Pyramid Rock’ Holiday Bible Club during the February Half-Term Holiday, for ...

Heaven – fact and fiction?

Among nominal and efringef Christians there have always been misapprehensions about Heaven. Pictures abound of our departed: winged, clothed in nightdresses and seated upon ...

Donald Cameron

Mixing the ways of the world with the things of God

The account in 2 Samuel chapter 6 of David’s attempt to bring the Ark of the Lord back to Jerusalem is one filled with many lessons for believers today. For twenty years the Ark had ...

Mark Kolchin

Question Time

Question What does the word ‘apologetics’ mean? Answer Firstly, we need to define the term apologetics. One definition ...

Studies in the Book of Nehemiah

Question Time

Rebuilding the Gates

4) The Valley Gate, verse 13 So, we continue our studies of the rebuilt gates by considering the Valley Gate. Some people a ...

John Riddle

Running a ‘Drop In’ for the Homeless

In October 2001, two brethren from the assembly that meets at Providence Chapel, went into Reading town centre on a Saturday night, with an exercise to meet the folk that beg o ...

John Davies

Smethwick Gospel Hall, West Midlands, UK

A CELEBRATION OF 100 YEARS OF TESTIMONY THROUGH At the time it was built, Smethwick Gospel Hall was in the county of Staffordshire. Its founder m ...

Allan Roberts

History

The Earthly Ministry of Christ

Incarnation translates the glory of the invisible God into human terms One of the main purposes of the incarnation was to translate the glory of ...

John E. Todd

The Eternal Christ

The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ (2)+

‘You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich’, 2 Cor. 8. 9.

Malcolm Horlock

The Healing of the family

What is Western culture like today? What has been the Christian response? When one becomes a follower of the Lord Jesus he is to leave in spirit ...

Donald L. Norbie

The Parable of the Good Samaritan – Part 2

Luke 10. 25-37 In the previous article we considered the setting of the parable, together with the roles played by the robbers, the priest and ...

Malcolm Horlock

The Practical application of some of our Lord’s parables

Study

The Seven Great Words of Galatians

References from the Revised Version The seven great word themes of Paul’s letter to the Galatians open up the whole of this epistle to us. They ...

Drew Craig

The Seven Great Words of Galatians

The Wrong Race!

He was purpose driven from the time he was a child With a little exaggeration, Saul of Tarsus was born running. He writes, ‘I was given a thoro ...

CONFLICT ON COMMUNITY RADIO STATION Mahboob Masih, a church minister from East Kilbride, is taking legal action after being dismissed from hostin ...