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2010 Volume 65 Issue 4
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A Word for Today: Hope (Gk. Elpis)
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 of all texts, the Bib…
Brian Clatworthy
A Word for Today
Exposition
Bible Bytes
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 retaining the interest of the children in their care. Providing Bi…
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, but new results from a rival study taking place in the USA …
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. During the early 1930’s…
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 modern society’s sorry and sord…
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 EDWARD DENNY, a respected expositor of the last century, call…
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 to notice God’s attention to detail. In a c…
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. So sex is good, God…
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 very encouraging in terms of the numbers of unsaved coming in. They…
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 Precious Seed International as its background the principles can be appl…
Michael Jones
Exposition
Metaphors of the Church
The Dispensational Aspect (The Church which is His Body) The Local Aspect (The Church of God) Col. 1. 18; Eph. 1. 22, 23 THE BODY 1 Cor. 12. 14-27 Matt. 16. 18 THE BUILDING1 Cor. 3. 9 Eph. 5. 24, 25,…
John Griffiths
A Building
A Body (Published 1983)
A Bride
A City
A Priesthood
Exposition
Opal Trust
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’. Geoff Ruston is the Secretar…
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 hands in the Gospels, we read there of only three occas…
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 fact, when Paul arrived in Troas, he did not find Titus, bu…
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’s imprisonment and its effect on the gospel Although verses 12-26 focus on Paul’s immediate circumstances, …
Keith R. Keyser
Philippians
Exposition
Question Time
Question Can past sins prevent current service for the Lord? Answer Years ago I worked with a colleague who had the annoying habit of not supplying a direct answer to a direct question. Stephen’s respon…
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. Rehoboam was the fourth and the least sig…
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. INTRODUCTION In the previous article, we noted that …
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 claims that it provided drugs to a patient to allow him to end…
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 Publications. The divorce dilemma John MacArthur. Paperback…
John Bennett
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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 purchasers are parents and grandparents of children in the age rang…
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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. This study follows His …
Drew Craig
The Good Shepherd in Action
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