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2013 Volume 68 Issue 1
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‘What is his name … if thou canst tell?’ – Proverbs 30. 4
The many names and titles given to God in the Bible are a revelation of His Person, character and purpose toward mankind. The names by which God chose to make Himself known to His people are a true indi…
Eric Parmenter
Devotional
A Word for Today: Shield, Protection (Heb. Magen)
One of the important features of heraldry is the graphic design of individual or family coats of arms, usually displayed on some form of shield. This decorative imagery goes back to at least medieval ti…
Brian Clatworthy
A Word for Today
Study
All Creatures Great and Small – The Sovereignty of God over Animals
Animals have achieved unparalleled status in modern society. Although they have been venerated in various cultures since ancient times, Rom. 1. 23, the creatures have probably never enjoyed greater popu…
Keith R. Keyser
Contemporary Issues
Armageddon and the Judgement of the Living nations
The storm is gathering and threatening on God’s prophetic horizon. Already the prophesied apostasy of the end times of the church age is gathering strength. Anti-Christian attitudes and rejection of mor…
Michael Browne
Contemporary Issues
Bible Bytes – Christology
I was talking to a friend after a meeting recently; we were discussing personal difficulties that occur in local churches from time to time. My friend and I agreed that if we all spent more time sharing…
Jeremy Singer
Bible Bytes
Bits and Bobs – So, what is a Gene?
DNA is the famous molecule of heredity that carries the code of life – an altogether remarkable biopolymer (polynucleotide). As expected, the more research that is conducted on the DNA molecule, the mor…
Sandy Jack
Contemporary Issues
Christian Hospitality
A careful examination will show that the word for ‘hospitality’ in Romans chapter 12 verse 13 is the same word translated as ‘entertaining strangers’, Heb. 13. 2. W. E. Vine states that hospitality mean…
John Campbell
Contemporary Issues
Editorial
‘To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God’, Eph. 3. 10. We said in our last editorial that ‘it is appropriate …
John Bennett
Editorial
Philippians: The Joy and Suffering of the Furtherance of the Gospel – Part 13
The passage opens with ‘where-fore’ which refers the reader back to the last section of chapter 3. The coming exhort-ation towards two disagreeing sisters in the assembly is issued in the light of their…
Keith R. Keyser
Philippians
Exposition
Question Time – Does the teaching of 1 Corinthians chapter 11 verses 2-16 apply only to assembly gat
Question Does the teaching of 1 Corinthians chapter 11 verses 2-16 apply only to assembly gatherings? Answer From the outset of history it has been the intention of God that there should be order in His…
Richard Collings
Question Time
Reports
ENGLAND Nottinghamshire The assembly at Kirkby-in-Ashfield held its second Evangelism Day for 2012 on Saturday, 13th October. A number of young people from across the East Midlands gathered for a time o…
Sandy Jack
Report
Samuel Prideaux Tregelles – Biblical Scholar
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the biblical scholar S. P. Tregelles. He was born in Falmouth in Cornwall on 30 January 1813. His father was a merchant, and both his parents were Q…
Brian Clatworthy
History
Studies in the life of Elijah – Part 1
‘The Lord God of Israel liveth’, 1 Kgs. 16. 29 - 17. 24 The history of Israel’s northern kingdom was one of rapid spiritual deterioration, so that by the time Elijah spoke to King Ahab its sin had becom…
Jeremy Gibson
Studies in the Life of Elijah
Exposition
The First Epistle of John – Part 6
(UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED, ALL QUOTATIONS OF SCRIPTURE ARE FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION) 1 John chapter 4 Children of God: Test – the Person of Christ, 4. 1-6 This section completes the second cycle o…
Ken Totton
The First Epistle of John
Study
The Glory of the God – Part 2
In the last article the revelation of God’s glory to Moses was in view. Moses was hidden in the cleft of the rock and he saw a display, and heard a declaration. There was the visual and the verbal expre…
Gary McBride
The Glory of God
Devotional
The Work in Moldova
Moldova is situated between Ukraine and Romania. It was part of the Soviet Union before gaining independence in 1992. It has a population of around 3.6 million and is often considered to be one of the p…
Matthew Hillier
Organisations
Unveiled – The History of the Kingdom of Heaven (4) (iii) The Parables of the Composition of the Kingdom vv.44-50
Parable No 5 Parable No 6 Parable No 7 The Treasure The Pearl The Dragnet Israel (a believing remnant) The Church Tribulation Saints Parable No. 5 The Treasure, v. 44 – Israel (a believing remn…
John Griffiths
Unveiled – The History of The Kingdom of Heaven
Exposition
Uzziah
Uzziah’s name means ‘Jehovah is my strength’ and his naming points to worthy spiritual ambitions for the child – a lesson to all God-fearing parents. So, in the phrase ‘marvellously helped till he becam…
Ken Totton
Exposition
Views from the News
2011 Census Returns Now fewer than six in ten people say they are Christians Proportion of Christians in England and Wales down to 59.3 per cent Quarter of people say they do not follow any religion fo…
Sandy Jack
Views from the News
Working with Senior Citizens – Part 1
The psalmist wrote, ‘The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly…
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Working with Senior Citizens
Contemporary Issues
Worshipping God
When the Lord delivered Israel from Egyptian slavery the command to Pharaoh was, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me’. There was a goal to freedom. It was not freedom to choose. Rather…
Randal Amos
Contemporary Issues
Book Reviews in this Issue
A Glimmer of Light – Studies in the Book of Lamentations – Paul Young
Paperback, 309pp. Price: £10.00. Published by Authorhouse UK Ltd., 500 Avebury Boulevard, Milton Keynes, MK9 2BE, UK. ISBN 978-1-4520-1686-3. Available from the author at 31 Fairmeadows, Cwmfelin, Maest…
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The Lord’s Day – A Medical Point of View – Professor Verna Wright
Paperback, 17pp, Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ. ISBN 978-1846252-39-6. ‘“Hurry, Worry, Bury” is the epitaph for many people in this century’. So begins this pam…
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The Messiah and the Covenants of Israel – Bryan W. Sheldon
Paperback, 181pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Available in UK from John Ritchie Ltd. Price £7.99, ISBN 978-192-676-5105. In the introducti…
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The Son of God, as Revealed by John – Robert E. Surgenor
Paperback, 240 pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, ON. L3K 6A6, Canada. ISBN 978-1-926765-34-1. Given all the books which have been written about the Gospel of Jo…
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This Jesus – Harold S. Paisley
Paperback, 86pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. W., Port Colborne, ON L3K 6A6. Price: £6.99 ISBN 978-1926765-20-4. This Jesus is a study of some of the more prominent names and title…
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