Articles for the Issue –

A Plea for the Preaching of the Gospel

EDITOR‘S NOTE: Our thanks to Jim Paul for issuing a timely call to evangelism, to have a personal desire to reach the lost, and to present to them the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the last decade…

Jim Paul

A Word for Today: Hear, Obedience (Heb. Shema)

One of the remarkable features of the Bible is the way in which God uses simple words to convey the most profound truth. This point is effectively demonstrated by the single Hebrew word shema’ (English …

If Rehoboam had obeyed the letter of the law, then Abijah would never have been king! The laws of inheritance, given in Deuteronomy chapter 21, clearly stated the rights of the firstborn where a man had…

John Scarsbrook

Accursed of God

How amazing that the Lord Jesus should be ‘made a curse for us’! The threat of judgement hung over every lawbreaker, Gal. 3. 10, and the penalty had to be executed. To redeem His people from that threat…

Jack Hay

As his custom was

If you were to make a list of the things that you habitually do, and the places you regularly visit, any who subsequently read it would be able to glean certain facts about you. Such a list would not on…

R. Catchpole

Community Outreach on the West Coast of Canada

Bits and Bobs

Harry Potter As the latest Harry Potter film hits cinemas, one writer is warning Christians that something sinister lurks beneath the wizardry and hocus-pocus. Steve Wohlberg, the author of the new book…

Stephen Baker

Report

Vancouver and the surrounding communities on the west coast of Canada form a diverse multi-lingual society. A recent article in the Vancouver Sun noted that – ‘Many high schools have student populations…

David Chesney

Organisations

Editorial

‘We … shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air’, 1 Thess. 4. 17 This is the first issue of the magazine for a new year. As the first month of that year may well h…

Facebook – A good thing or a bad thing

Editorial

The medium of social networking has taken the on-line community on a journey most would never have imagined. Twenty years ago, when we started to discover the Internet on our dial up connections, little…

Jim Armstrong

Gospel Work and Other Activities

England Devon The Gospel Hall at Teignmouth has been in existence for almost 200 years. It is quite a small assembly, with approximately fifteen attending the Breaking of Bread service each Lord’s Day. …

Sandy Jack

Report

He began to speak…

He longed to preach the gospel to every creature and spent hours distributing tracts and visiting the slums. He said later, ‘When I was quite young I used to go down to the slums of London. I would go i…

Harold St. John

Metaphors of the Church

The Assembly as the House of God – Its Dignity, 1 Tim. 3. 15. The first use of the expression ‘house of God’ is in Genesis chapter 28 verse 17 where Jacob, having slept and dreamt, awoke to the realizat…

John Griffiths

Philippians: The Joy and Suffering of the Furtherance of the Gospel – Part 5

Online Missionary News

Since the internet provides such a rapid and global communications network, it can be useful for obtaining up-to-date news of gospel outreach and Christian testimony from all over the world. Several onl…

Jeremy Singer

Bible Bytes

Chapter 1: The Gospel’s Progress amidst Opposition and Suffering Section 3: Chapter 1. 27 to Chapter 2. 5 Exhortation to live worthy of the gospel amidst suffering and to embrace the mind of Christ In t…

Keith R. Keyser

Philippians

Question Time – Why do I find it hard to spend time in prayer?

Question Why do I find it hard to spend time in prayer? Answer It is reputed that Frances Jane Crosby wrote over 8000 hymns, one of which contains the verse, ‘O the pure delight of a single hour that be…

Richard Collings

Question Time

So, You want to be Contemporary?

EDITOR‘S NOTE: Is all change good? It is hoped that this article will help us to consider what is worldly and therefore inappropriate in the context of the spiritual. Society and culture seem to be in a…

Donald L. Norbie

The Elder as a Servant

EDITOR‘S NOTE: This is the first of a short series on this very needy and practical area of elders. It is designed to emphasize the spiritual nature of this work and how we need to encourage younger men…

William Burnett (2)

The Elders

The Good Shepherd in Action

The climax of that scene following the death of Lazarus, John chapter 11, is that divine eyes shed human tears! It was but a foretaste of the ‘strong crying and tears’, Heb. 5. 7, that were to be His lo…

Drew Craig

The Good Shepherd in Action

The Parable of the Pounds – Part 1

1(Unless otherwise stated, all quotations of Scripture are from the New King James Version) INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT The previous two articles focused upon the Parable of the Unjust Steward in Luke chap…

Malcolm Horlock

The Practical application of some of our Lord’s parables

Study

The Rapture – it’s details

This article considers details revealed in scripture of the event often referred to as the Rapture. It is the sudden removal of God’s people from earth to heaven.1 We will see that the Rapture is also a…

Alastair Sinclair

These Forty Years (1969 – 2009)

On the 30th of September 2009, approximately 220 believers from the six assemblies around Botswana, came to Serowe to commemorate forty years of assembly testimony in the country. The six assemblies are…

None Assigned

History

Those Who Were a Delight to Paul: Lois and Eunice (Continued)

Eunice and her mother Lois lived in Lystra in southern Galatia (modern-day Turkey). They were Jewesses, but, by the time we read about them, Eunice had married a Greek and had a grown-up, but uncircumci…

Howard A. Barnes

Personalities In The Pastoral Epistles

R. B. Jones – Gospel Ministry in Turbulent Times – N. Gibbard

Views from the News

Most under-35s have not heard of the King James Bible More than half of young adults have never heard of the King James Version of the Bible, according to a new survey. The influential translation, whic…

Sandy Jack

Views from the News

Book Reviews in this Issue

R. B. Jones – Gospel Ministry in Turbulent Times N. Gibbard. Paperback, 232pp. Published by Bryntirion Press, Bridgend, CF31 4DX, Wales. ISBN 978 1 85049 231 3. In the first part of this book the auth…

Prayer Moves Mountains – John Williams

Prayer Moves Mountains John Williams. Paperback, 110 pp, Published by Guardian Books, Ontario, Canada. ISBN 978 1 55452 339 9. The sub-title of this book is ‘Jesus’ Teaching on Prayer’, and the publis…

Christian Devotedness – Anthony Norris Groves

Open-Air Preaching

Introduction ‘Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature’, Mark 16. 15. It is with this commission from the Lord Jesus Christ in mind that we mention the opportunity that there is …

Andrew Bennett

Christian Devotedness Anthony Norris Groves Paperback, 54pp.Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Available in UK from John Ritchie Ltd. Price £2.99. …

Bible and Church Conference 2009 – Peter Williams, Dirk Jongkind, Simon Gathercole

Bible and Church Conference 2009 Peter Williams, Dirk Jongkind, Simon Gathercole. DVD; 138 minutes; Tyndale House, 36 Selwyn Gardens, Cambridge, CB3 9BA, England. Price £17.50. This DVD is a visual re…