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2012 Volume 67 Issue 1

A Word for Today: Firstfruits (Heb. Bikkûr)

Unsurprisingly, with an agrarian economy that formed the major part of Israel’s day to day existence in the Promised Land, the term ‘firstfruits’ was employed by God as a motif to underline the various …

Read: 2 Kings 8. 25-29; 9. 16ff.; 2 Chronicles 22. 1-9 Accession to the throne Jehoshaphat’s ill-advised marriage alliance with the house of Omri brought bitter results, 2 Chr. 18. 1. Athaliah, the quee…

Ken Totton

Devotional

Angolan Literature Fund

UK Charity Registration No. 1077591 The Angolan Literature Fund was established in September 1998 with the aim of furthering the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, providing literature for the edifying of…

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Organisations

Bible Bytes – Christian Biographies on the Web

I always enjoy reading Christian biographies, especially when an author gives a personal account of his or her conversion. Of course, we know this is sound biblical practice: Paul’s Damascus Road experi…

Jeremy Singer

Bible Bytes

Bits & Bobs – Why Don’t Animals Need a Barber?

While many of us make periodic trips to the barber, most nonhuman mammals always appear in perfect trim without a barber. The reason for this is that hair grows in a cyclic manner. A relatively long per…

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Contemporary Issues

Christ our Life

A Christian’s personal relation-ship with the Lord Jesus Christ is unique. It is so in the sense that He is a Person we have never seen.1 We have never heard the sound of His voice. It is special becaus…

John Buchanan

Devotional

Church Gatherings – Part 1

In Matthew chapter 18, verse 20 the Lord Jesus planted a seed thought which blossomed in the book of Acts and bore fruit in the Epistles. One of the reasons given by the Lord when he called the twelve i…

John Scarsbrook

Church Gatherings

Exposition

Editorial – ‘For if ye do these things ye shall never fall’

‘For if ye do these things ye shall never fall’, 2 Pet. 1. 10. It is instructive that Peter should write these words. He was someone who knew, from personal experience, what it was to fall. He had made …

John Bennett

Editorial

Israel in the interval between the Rapture and the Tribulation

It is evident from the word of God that there is a time gap after the rapture of the saints of this present dispensation. The place that Israel will have in that period is also defined in the word of Go…

Norman Mellish

Exposition

Personalities in the Pastoral Epistles (7) – Those who were a delight to Paul (continued)

Apollos When Apollos, a Jew from Alexandria in Egypt, turned up at the synagogue at Ephesus, he made quite an impression with his speaking. As far as it went, his teaching was very good, being marked by…

Howard A. Barnes

Personalities In The Pastoral Epistles

Exposition

Philippians: The Joy and Suffering of the Furtherance of the Gospel – Part 9

The third chapter of Philippians continues Paul’s assault on the self-consuming error that threatened the progress of the gospel. In particular, he demolishes false teaching that placed the emphasis on …

Keith R. Keyser

Philippians

Study

Question Time – Should there be a minimum age set for those requesting baptism?

QUESTION Should there be a minimum age set for those requesting baptism? ANSWER The only guide we have to assist us in responding to questions relating to spiritual things is the word of God. Such a sta…

Richard Collings

Question Time

Reports

England London Jonathan and Joy Black, who have been commended by the Harryville assembly in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to serve the Lord in London, have been involved in gospel meetings in Clifton Ha…

Sandy Jack

Report

Riverside Gospel Hall, Bandon, Co.Cork, N.Ireland

The assembly at Riverside Gospel Hall has a long history in the town of Bandon in Southern Ireland. In the years 1830 to 1840 there was an Episcopal curate in the parish of Bandon named George Bellett. …

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History

Teaching and Guiding a Rising Generation – Part 1: The Spiritual Balance

Part 1: THE SPIRITUAL BALANCE Perhaps the most difficult aspect of discipling others is knowing how much time should be committed to the spiritually lethargic. Not every Christian matures as he or she o…

Warren Henderson

Teaching and Guiding a Rising Generation

Exposition

The Challenges and Blessings of Foster Care

It may come as a surprise to many that foster care, like many pertinent issues in society today, is referred to directly in God’s timeless word, the Bible. In Acts chapter 13, Manaen, one of the prophet…

Mark Kolchin

Contemporary Issues

The First Epistle of John – Part 2

Prologue, 1. 1-4 John introduces his letter with a complex sentence, consisting of a series of profound statements. He sees no need to identify himself, implying that he is well-known to those to whom h…

Ken Totton

The First Epistle of John

Study

The King James Version and Principles of Translation – Part 2

Last year was the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Version (AV) which, in many places, is rarely matched in terms of the beauty of its language. In these two articles an effort has…

Howard Coles

The King James Version and Principles of Translation

Contemporary Issues

The Reward Side of Christianity

On his office wall a brother had this motto – ‘Counted Faithful’. The same brother wrote, All my work is for the Master, He is still my heart’s desire, Oh that He may count me faithful in the day that t…

Eric Parmenter

Exposition

The School of Pain

Although no one dares to apply to it, all believers have still been through this school at one level or another. The wisdom and grace of God permitted that our family would go through the pain of the de…

Sam Taufeek

Contemporary Issues

The Servants of God

In most of Christendom there is a clergy system firmly entrenched. The clergy are a special class in the church, men or women who go to seminary for special training, are ordained and then become leader…

Donald L. Norbie

Exposition

The Sovereignty of God – Introduction – Part 1

The doctrine of the sovereignty of God is one of the weightiest and most important doctrines of scripture. Although the word ‘sovereignty’ is never used in the English Bible, other synonyms such as ‘maj…

David Dunlap

The Sovereignty of God

A Word for Today

Views from the News

Cameron’s Big Society needs Christian values behind it David Cameron’s “Big Society" dream will fail unless the country rediscovers traditionally Christian values, according to the academic credited wit…

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Views from the News

Book Reviews in this Issue

You Shall Go Out With Joy – Robert Muir

Paperback, 136pp. Published by John Ritchie Ltd., 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, Scotland, KA3 1RH. £6.99. ISBN 978-1-907731-11-2. This delightful book charts the missionary work of Robert and Margaret Mui…

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True Love – Understanding the real meaning of Christian love

James M. Renihan. Paperback, 144pp., Published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH, UK. Price: £8.99. ISBN 978-0-852347-13-3. This book will speak to the conscience. James Renih…

Ed Hotchin

History Today – James Montgomery Paul S. Taylor

Paperback, 134pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ, UK. Price £7.00. ISBN 978-1-84625-209-9. James Montgomery was the author of some 400 hymns, among the best know…

R. Catchpole

God’s Care for the Widow – Austin Walker

Paperback, 128pp, Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ, UK. Price £5.00. ISBN 978-1-84625-199-3. For over thirty years the author has been a pastor at a Reformed Bapti…

Ed Hotchin

Exemplary Spiritual Leadership – J. Wragg

Paperback, 154pp, Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ, UK. £7.00. ISBN 978-1-84625-200-6. There is much here that is helpful. There is good use of headings and sub-he…

Bryan Charles

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