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2013 Volume 68 Issue 4

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 4

A Word for Today: Vine, Grapevine (Heb. Gephen)

Viticulture or vine cultivation has been practised for many thousands of years. The Greeks were the leading exponents of this science, and it was extended by them throughout the Mediterranean world wher…

Brian Clatworthy

A Word for Today

Ards Evangelical Bookshop, Newtownards, Northern Ireland

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to run a Christian bookshop? The economy; the internet; dying town centres; poor reading habits. Like Jacob, some may feel like saying ‘All these things are against…

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Organisations

Bits & Bobs – Brilliant Butterfly Feature Challenges Darwinian Selection

How do butterflies’ wings shine? Like almost all other butterflies, the Morpho has wings covered with scales. Typically, pigmentation patterns across these scales generate wing colours, but a Morpho’s s…

Sandy Jack

Views from the News

Daniel’s Prophecy of The Seventy Weeks – Part 2

DANIEL’S PROPHECY OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS By ANDREW WILSON Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia (UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED, ALL QUOTATIONS OF SCRIPTURE ARE FROM THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION) Daniel chapter 9 verse…

Andrew Wilson

Daniel’s Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks

Study

David Livingstone

2013 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of David Livingstone and the 140th anniversary of his death. What was crammed into those sixty years of his life is astounding! Livingstone was a man who recei…

John Bennett

History

Depression a Biblical Case Study – Elijah

Few, if any, of us have ever faced a woman like Jezebel. She was the very influential and utterly ruthless wife of the king of Israel, the power behind Ahab’s throne. When she issued a threat, as she di…

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Contemporary Issues

Editorial – ‘Abstain from all appearance of evil’, 1 Thess. 5. 22.

I still remember with affection the days of childhood, and being able to play outside in the garden. It wasn’t just the pleasure of summer holidays and sun. There was that sense of additional freedom. Y…

John Bennett

Editorial

Front Cover Illustration

WADI ARBEL. Photo: John Chesney The ancient village of Khirbet Hamam was located on a steep slope of the Nitai Mountain above the Wadi Arbel, which is captured in our stunning cover picture. It is about…

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Editorial

Hezekiah – The Devoted King

2 Chronicles chapter 30 Gathering God’s Way proclaiming to the tribes the place and purpose of the meeting. The Place – As the post went out to Israel as well as Judah, they were to impress upon the peo…

John Griffiths

Hezekiah

Devotional

Philippians: The Joy and Suffering of the Furtherance of the Gospel – Part 16

Paul’s Contented Gratitude and the Practical Fellowship of the Gospel Chapter 4 verses 10-20 As Paul draws his letter to the Philippians to a close he conscientiously thanks them for a financial gift, a…

Keith R. Keyser

Philippians

Exposition

Question Time – Are there scriptural grounds to justify leaving one assembly to join another in the

QUESTION Are there scriptural grounds to justify leaving one assembly to join another in the same locality? ANSWER In the answer that appeared in the November 2010 magazine I began by referring to a for…

Richard Collings

Question Time

Recognition and Reward of The Elders

No subject in relation to what we call assembly truth can be more important than that of rule among the assemblies of God’s people. The assembly is not a place where everyone does that which is right in…

John J. Stubbs

Contemporary Issues

Reports

England West Yorkshire The assembly in Hemsworth is able to go into around ten local schools to take the assemblies. Once a year, the assembly takes the Open Air Mission’s Bible exhibition into eight sc…

Sandy Jack

Report

Spreading The Word ‘Scotland Needs the Gospel’

This article is written with a view to encouraging God’s people to take up the opportunities for spreading the written word of God. If it encourages even one brother or sister to do this it will have be…

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Contemporary Issues

Studies in the life of Elijah – Part 4

‘Naboth’s Vineyard’, 1 Kgs. 21. 1-29. It was during the middle and largest section of Luke’s Gospel, as the Saviour journeyed to His death at Jerusalem, that He ministered on the snare of riches.1 It is…

Graeme Hutchinson

Studies in the Life of Elijah

A Word for Today

The Canon of Scripture. How was it arrived at?

The second phase: How false doctrine causes a reappraisal of the canon of scripture. Everything seems to be progressing well when suddenly a wealthy man raised in a Christian home with an excellent educ…

John Thropay

The Canon of Scripture

Contemporary Issues

The Case for a Literal One Thousand Year Kingdom

This article will seek to put forward the case that the one thousand year period referred to in Revelation chapter 20 is a literal period of Christ’s reign on earth following the present age, rapture, t…

Alastair Sinclair

Contemporary Issues

The Glory of God and the Church – Part 5

[Unless otherwise stated, all quotations are taken from the NKJ version of the scriptures). THE PURPOSES OF GOD Paul ends his prayer in Ephesians chapter 3 with a wonderful doxology, vv. 20, 21. He is e…

Gary McBride

The Glory of God

Devotional

The Servant Songs of Isaiah – Part 1

There are four passages in the book of Isaiah that are called songs of the Servant of Jehovah. The subject of these lyrics is a royal servant (ebed), meaning one who rules under another, as Joseph did. …

Adam Thropay

The Servant Songs of Isaiah

Devotional

The Sovereignty of God in Relation to Prayer

Perhaps the most private sphere of the Christian’s life is his or her prayer life. Aspects of a man’s prayer life may be heard by others in the assembly prayer meetings or in family devotions, but the l…

Tom Wilson (2)

Devotional

Views from the News

Head teachers removed in row over ‘creationist’ church Two head teachers who allowed members of a US-based creationist church to help out at a Scottish primary school have been removed from their posts.…

Sandy Jack

Views from the News

Book Reviews in this Issue

The Principles and Practices of the New Testament Church – William McCormack

Paperback, 44 pages, Published by John Ritchie Limited, 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, Scotland. ISBN 978-1-907731-27-3. Although there are many books that have been published on this subject, it is approp…

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The Parables: Truth Illuminated – Donald Norbie

Paperback, 190 pages, Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, ON L3K 6A6, Canada. ISBN 978-1-926765-22- 8. This is a straightforward consideration of the Lord’s parables.…

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The Desire of All Nations – B. R. Mikhael

Paperback, 166pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, ON L3K 6A6, Canada. Price: £9.99 ISBN 978-1926765-77-8. The Desire of All Nations (Hag. 2. 7) is a series of ‘me…

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Realising a Vision through Faith Colleen Redit with Peggy Loh

Hardback, 205 pages, Published by Christian Missions Charitable Trust, Chennai, India. Available from Precious Seed International. Price: £11.95. ISBN 978-1871642-57-5. This is a book that traces the …

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The Song of Zechariah – Timothy Cross

Paperback, 106pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, ON L3K 6A6, Canada. Price £5.99 ISBN 978-1926765-64-8. In the preface, Timothy Cross describes the song of Zechar…

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