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2014 Volume 69 Issue 3
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A Word for Today: Advocate, Pleader, Intercessor (Gk. Para-kletos)
One of the enduring features of English common law is that it is based on the adversarial system of justice. This gives rise to the practice of advocacy, where parties are represented by advocates who a…
Brian Clatworthy
A Word for Today
Study
Annanias
The book of the Acts is a very interesting book, being the only inspired account of the development of the early church. This is exemplified when we compare Acts chapter 8 verse 3, in which we read, ‘Sa…
John Tinkler
Devotional
Bits and Bobs – What is ‘Nothing’?
It seems like a simple question. The Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary defines ‘nothing’ as, a) ‘something that does not exist; b) the absence of all magnitude or quantity’. To the average mind, ‘nothi…
Sandy Jack
Views from the News
Cregagh Street Assembly, Belfast, N. Ireland
The origins of the Cregagh Street assembly are to be found in the burden of a number of believers, mostly associated with the Victoria Hall assembly, Belfast, to see the gospel brought to the Woodstock …
None Assigned
History
Daniel’s Prophecy of The Seventy Weeks – Part 5
Daniel chapter 9 Daniel’s Seventieth Seven, verse 27 One over-riding consideration must drive our interpretation of this verse: what Christ Himself said about it on the Mount of Olives. Christ’s insiste…
Andrew Wilson
Daniel’s Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks
Exposition
Door-to-Door Work
We have to recognize that we no longer live in a society where people go regularly to church. In our experience at Redcar, England, attendance at our weekly gospel service is on the decline. We do not h…
Mike Oakes
Contemporary Issues
Editorial – ‘Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others’, Phil
‘We all deserve a little “me” time’. This was the focus of the advert promoting another ‘must have’ product. Yet, in that simple statement, there lies the nub of human thinking – ‘me’ first. We are enco…
John Bennett
Editorial
Josiah – Part 1
Chaos reigned in the royal residence at Jerusalem. Amon’s brief and godless occupancy of the throne had been brought to an untimely end by his servants, fearful, maybe, of a return to the cruel and idol…
John Scarsbrook
Josiah
Devotional
Question Time – Is the way we gather the most important issue in our Christian life?
QUESTION Is the way we gather the most important issue in our Christian life? ANSWER This is not an easy question to answer for it is almost certain that whatever response is given I will be in a ‘no wi…
Richard Collings
Question Time
Red Row, Northumberland, England
The assembly situated in the village of Red Row, Northumberland, has the distinction of being the most northerly assembly in England. There are currently four assemblies in the County, and Red Row is th…
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History
Reports
England Kirkby-in-Ashfield Since January of this year, the assembly in Kirkby-in-Ashfield has been involved in a town centre outreach in the Idlewells Shopping Centre in Sutton-in-Ashfield, a neighbouri…
Sandy Jack
Report
The Believer as a Servant
The Glory of Service In this article, we survey the essentials of what it means to be a servant of God. We were once the slaves of sin and Satan, but, by God’s infinite mercy and grace, we have been red…
Ken Totton
Exposition
The Chairman retires
For those of us who have known and worked with Roy Hill over the years of his involvement with Precious Seed, it is difficult to envisage the ministry without his advice, guidance, and leadership. Yet, …
None Assigned
Contemporary Issues
The Glory of His Coming
The first coming of Christ was in obscurity and humility. He veiled the outward display of glory and took upon Himself ‘the form of a servant’, and ‘the likeness of men’.1 The next time He comes to eart…
Gary McBride
Devotional
The Power of Choice
Do you have choice in life or are you simply a pawn where your actions are determined by your genes, environment, or a god who has predestined your every movement? In the creation account, after God has…
Donald L. Norbie
Contemporary Issues
The Practical Effects of Prophetic Interpretation
Is the study of prophecy purely academic and impractical? First of all, there is a very limited sense in which this is partly true. We cannot be sure exactly how some prophetic passages in scripture wil…
Malcolm C. Davis
Exposition
The Priesthood
There were three offerings made on the High Priest’s behalf. Foremost, he brought the bullock for the sin offering. The sin offering: He who knew no sin was made sin for us.1 Consequently, there is now …
John Hall
The Priesthood
Devotional
The Servant Songs of Isaiah- Part 4
This song begins as it ends, setting forth the ultimate exaltation of the Servant of Jehovah, the Seed of David. The second section of the song, beginning at Isaiah chapter 53 verse 1, starts with a que…
None Assigned
The Servant Songs of Isaiah
Devotional
The Symbols of Headship
Introduction One of the characteristics of God is that He is orderly. It has ever been His purpose that there should be order throughout His creation that would be achieved by some having authority to w…
Richard Collings
Exposition
Views from the News
Russia sentences secret agents over theft of Gutenberg Bible Russia has sentenced three agents belonging to its Federal Security Service (FSB) for trying to sell a rare 15th-Century Bible, officials say…
Sandy Jack
Views from the News
What does it mean to die with Christ? Luke 9. 18-27 – Part 1
Ordinarily, we speak of Christian living, but it is an essential fact of New Testament teaching that living for God can be realized only when ‘death’ has occurred beforehand. As will be seen later, sinc…
Eddie Honeyball
What does it mean to die with Christ?
Exposition
Why does God allow Evil Men to Rule? – Part 1
As the children of God, brought into God’s divine plan by faith in Jesus Christ, we have the great honour and privilege of glorifying Christ, regardless of the situation in which we find ourselves. As w…
John Thropay
Why does God allow Evil Men to Rule?
Contemporary Issues
Book Reviews in this Issue
Led by His Hand – Malcolm Coombes, ex- R.N.
Paperback, 198 pp. Author: M. J. Coombes [Micro-Entreprise], Orange, France. ISBN: 978-20-9530290-1-7. This book is an extended personal testimony by a servant of the Lord who will be known, at least …
John Bennett
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Life in the Big Story – Your Place in God’s Unfolding Plan – Heidi Johnston
Paperback, 192 pp. Published by IVP, Norton Street, Nottingham, NG7 3HR, UK. Price £8. 99. ISBN 978-1-84474-579-1. ‘What a refreshing change this is’. So writes a well-known academic, author, and Bibl…
John Bennett
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The Saviour God and His Servant King – Malcolm C. Davis
Paperback, 260 pp. Published by John Ritchie Ltd., 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, Scotland, KA3 1RH. Price: £7.99. ISBN 13-978-1-907731-83-9. The subtitle of this book is ‘Isaiah’s Prophecy – An Introducti…
John Bennett
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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 Zech…
R. Catchpole
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Theos: The Greatest Title of Christ – Rick Morse
Paperback, 66pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, ON L3K 6A6, Canada. Price: £5.99. ISBN 978-1926765-97-6. This book is a ‘consideration of the biblical doctrine o…
Daniel Rudge
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