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2010 Volume 65 Issue 4

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The writer SAMUEL JOHNSON once said that no place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Johnson, however, failed to appreciate that o ...

RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN‘S WORK WEB SITES Those who are engaged in Sunday School or Children’s work will be aware of the difficulties of retai ...

Unknown

Children's Pages

Bits & Bobs

Is the ‘God particle’ singular or plural? Finding the Higgs boson is the primary aim of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment in Geneva ...

Sandy Jack

Exposition

Blairhall Assembly, Scotland

Blairhall is a small village of approximately 1000 people in West Fife, Scotland. The Gospel Hall is situated at the North Lodge of what was the original estate of Comrie Castle. < ...

Unknown

History

Commands to Christians for the Last Days

In 1976 the noted Christian philosopher and theologian, FRAN CIS A. SCHAEFFER, published a book entitled, How Should We Then Live? In it the author traces the reasons for moder ...

W. Ross Rainey

Exposition

Daniel’s Seventy Weeks

DANIEL 9. 24-27 Most serious students of scripture agree that these four verses are the key to the understanding of scriptural prophecy. SIR EDWA ...

Jim Allen

Exposition

Editorial

‘The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore’, Ezra 2. 64. In reading through such chapters as this it is striking ...

John Bennett

Editorial

Flee Lust

God created man, male and female, and commanded them to multiply. The goal of sexual desire is children, the propagation of the human race. Animals also have this drive to reproduce. S ...

Donald L. Norbie

Exposition

Gospel Work and Other Activities

ENGLAND Merseyside During April, the assembly at Huyton held gospel meetings with Andrew Dutton and Stephen Baker. These meetings were v ...

Sandy Jack

Report

How to Give

EDITOR‘S NOTE Giving is very much a personal exercise ‘as God hath prospered’, 1 Cor. 16. 2. Whilst this article uses the work of Preci ...

Michael Jones

Exposition

Metaphors of the Church

The Dispensational Aspect (The Church which is His Body) The Local Aspect ...

John Griffiths

A Building

A Body (Published 1983)

The Opal Trust is an assembly-based charity operating out of Lockerbie in Scotland. The Trust’s objective is to supply affordable Bibles and books to ‘the Developing World’. Geof ...

Geoff Ruston

Organisations

Our Lord’s Outststretched Hands

(Unless otherwise stated, all quotations of Scripture are from the New King James Version ) Although there are over forty references to our Lord’s han ...

Malcolm Horlock

Exposition

Personalities in the Pastoral Epistles

Those who were a delight to Paul: Timothy (continued) Timothy never met Paul in Troas and in all probability he never got down to Corinth. In fa ...

Howard A. Barnes

Personalities In The Pastoral Epistles

Exposition

Philippians: The Joy and Suffering of the Furtherance of the Gospel – Part 4

Chapter 1:The Gospel’s Progress amidst Opposition and Suffering Section 2: Verses 12-26 Paul’ ...

Question Can past sins prevent current service for the Lord? Answer Years ago I worked with a colleague who had the annoyin ...

Richard Collings

Question Time

Rehoboam

This is the first article in a new series that explores the practical lessons that we can all learn from the biblical record of the lives of the Kings of Judah. R ...

Ian Affleck

Kings of Judah

Exposition

The Parable of the Unjust Steward – Part 2

(UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED, ALL QUOTATIONS OF SCRIPTURE ARE FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION) The Parable of the Unjust Steward. Luke 16. 1-13. Part 2.

Malcolm Horlock

The Practical application of some of our Lord’s parables

Exposition

Views from the News

Suicide clinic Dignitas under investigation The controversial suicide clinic Dignitas is under investigation by the Swiss authorities over claim ...

Sandy Jack

Exposition

Book Reviews in this Issue

Book Reviews

Books are available from the publishers shown (or from John Ritchie in the UK or Gospel Folio Press in N. America), and NOT from Precious Seed ...

John Bennett

Remember the Children and the Adults at Christmas

Stepping stones through the Bible day by day This book fills a gap in the children’s book market and comes in full colour. The target purchase ...

Unknown

The Good Shepherd in Action

The central chapters of John’s Gospel are interconnected and developed in a very interesting way. The central theme is the activity of the Lord Jesus Christ as the good Shepherd. T ...

Drew Craig

The Good Shepherd in Action

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