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2011 Volume 66 Issue 1
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400 years on, and looking forward: the Authorised (King James) Version
Editor’s Note: This is the first article in a short series that commemorates the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the scriptures. Each article seeks to highlight features of this much love…
Mark Fenn
The Authorised (King James) Version
Contemporary Issues
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
Contemporary Issues
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 …
Brian Clatworthy
A Word for Today
Study
Abijah
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
Exposition
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
Devotional
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
Exposition
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
Community Outreach on the West Coast of Canada
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…
John Bennett
Editorial
Facebook – A good thing or a bad thing
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
Contemporary Issues
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
Devotional
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
Devotional
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
Philippians: The Joy and Suffering of the Furtherance of the Gospel – Part 5
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
Exposition
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
Contemporary Issues
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
Exposition
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
Devotional
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
Exposition
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
Exposition
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
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…
John Bennett
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Christian Devotedness – Anthony Norris Groves
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. …
John Bennett
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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
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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…
John Bennett
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R. B. Jones – Gospel Ministry in Turbulent Times – N. Gibbard
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…
John Bennett
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