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2009 Volume 64 Issue 2
Articles in this Issue
Alcohol – to drink or not to drink?
The purpose of this article is to suggest reasons for the proposition that Christians should totally abstain from the consumption of alcoholic beverages. As with any issue we need to begin by firstly re…
Stephen Arbuthnot
Exposition
Bits & Bobs
SOFTWARE FIRM GIVES NEW WINGS TO MAF A specialist mission relief agency, whose planes fly aid, missionaries and development workers to thousands of remote spots around the world, has received a £1 milli…
Stephen Baker
Report
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 yet we hardly know the family next door. We commute to a chu…
Anonymous
Exposition
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 editor’s comment for the Precious Seed magazine. The demands of th…
Ken Rudge
Editorial
Gideon – the weak confounding the mighty (5/1)
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 Deborah, Gideon, Jephthah and Samson, and we would be right to do …
John Scarsbrook
The Days when the Judges ruled
Exposition
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 children aged aged from five to eleven years. A …
Stephen Baker
Report
Heaven – fact and fiction?
Among nominal and efringef Christians there have always been misapprehensions about Heaven. Pictures abound of our departed: winged, clothed in nightdresses and seated upon clouds playing harps! Peter…
Donald Cameron
Exposition
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 lain idle in the hou…
Mark Kolchin
Exposition
Question Time
Question What does the word ‘apologetics’ mean? Answer Firstly, we need to define the term apologetics. One definition says it is ‘the branch of theology that is concerned with defending or proving the …
Stephen Baker
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 are very proud of their orthodoxy! Their claimed adherence to ‘the old paths’ gi…
John Riddle
Studies in the Book of Nehemiah
Exposition
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 on the streets. Their motiv…
John Davies
Report
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 member was Mr. John Farren, who is described in a legal do…
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 the invisible God into human terms that could be readily …
John E. Todd
The Eternal Christ
Exposition
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. We note Paul’s opening words, ‘For…
Malcolm Horlock
Exposition
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 the culture in which he lives and put himself under the a…
Donald L. Norbie
Exposition
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 the Levite. We pick up the story at the point where our Lor…
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 are as follows: 1. Revelation: 1. 12, 16; 2. 2. 2. Libera…
Drew Craig
The Seven Great Words of Galatians
Exposition
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 thorough Jewish training from my earliest childhood’, Acts 26. 4…
James R. Cochrane
Paul, the Runner
Exposition
Views from the News
CONFLICT ON COMMUNITY RADIO STATION Mahboob Masih, a church minister from East Kilbride, is taking legal action after being dismissed from hosting his radio programme for the manner in which Christianit…
Stephen Baker
Report
Book Reviews in this Issue
Collected Writings of Les Rainey, Volume 2
Paperback, 614pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Available in UK from John Ritchie Ltd. Price £19.99, ISBN 978-1-897117-30-9. Within this sin…
Les Rainey
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God’s Undertaker. Has science buried God?
Paperback, 192pp. Published by Lion Hudson plc, Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford, OX2 8DR. Price £8.99, ISBN 978-0-745953-03-8. This book should be required reading for pupils and students wh…
John Lennox
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One God One Message
Paperback, 396pp, Published by Xulon Press, c/o of The Way of Righteousness, P.O. Box 4006, Greenville, SC 29607, USA. Available from John Ritchie, 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, KA3 1RH, UK. Price £8.99, IS…
P. D. Bramsen
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Six-Day Creation. Does it matter what you believe?
Paperback, 64pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster HR6 8NZ, UK. Price £4.00, ISBN 978-1-84625-097-2. This book offers ‘a succinct and important argument in favour of a liter…
Robert Gurney
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What is the World coming to?
Paperback, 284pp. Published by Trafford Publishing (UK) Limited, 9 Park End Street, 2nd floor, Oxford, OX1 1HH, UK. Price £10.32, ISBN 978-1-425112-66-0. As the writer states on the cover of his book…
John J. Weatherhogg
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