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2015 Volume 70 Issue 4

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2015 Volume 70 Issue 4

Many believers in the Lord Jesus experience times of difficulty. Sometimes, there may be circumstances which are visible to others; in many cases, there are matters known only to the individual. It may …

Steve Sherwin

Contemporary Issues

A Word for Today – S(h)emesh (Sun)

Shakespeare’s tragedy Richard III opens with these famous lines, ‘Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York’. This forms part of a longer soliloquy, where the Duke of…

Brian Clatworthy

Study

And Dwelt Among Us

As the diamond in the hand of the jeweller, by catching various shades of light, reflects new facets of its beauty and brilliance, so the Spirit of God, by taking a word here or a phrase there, unfolds …

A. G. Anstice

Devotional

Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 1

The dreadful example of Judas Iscariot has been burned into the hearts of believers over the years by the phrase at the beginning of the frequently-read passage on the Lord’s Supper, ‘the same night in …

Ian Rees

Characters Around the Crucifixion

Contemporary Issues

Charles Gahan

‘Where there are not faithful ministers of the word of God, the people decay’, Prov. 29. 18 GNV The background to the biblical text quoted is likely to have been Exodus chapter 32 verses 25-26, where Mo…

Brian Clatworthy

Contemporary Issues

Editorial – ‘For he himself knew what he would do’, John 6. 6.

This statement is made in the account of the feeding of the multitude. It follows a question asked of Philip by the Lord himself. ‘Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat?’ v. 5. We are also given …

Rutherford Rabey

Editorial

Epistle to Philemon

Onesimus’ Restoration ‘Thou therefore receive him’, v. 12;1 ‘receive him as myself’, v. 17. Here is the nub of this letter. It is, in effect, a letter of commendation from Paul to Philemon with regard t…

John Bennett

Exposition

Evidences of New Birth

John wrote his Gospel so that his readers might learn how to obtain eternal life, 20. 31, and he wrote his first epistle that those who believed they had obtained it might be able to verify the fact, 5.…

E W Rogers

Devotional

Hannah – Faithful Amidst Unfaithfulness

Hannah lived in a very difficult time in Israel’s history. The nation had just come through a period when accountability was ridiculed and ‘every man did that which was right in his own eyes’, Judg. 21.…

Ian Grant

Devotional

Love is the Answer

Love is the solution of all such difficulties as those at Corinth. In the 1st Epistle to Corinthians we can trace: (A) A twelve-fold might of love If love ruled, there would be: no division, as in chap…

Harry Bell

Devotional

Precious Seed Editors – 1945 to the Present

Whilst the work of Precious Seed is not the work of any one man, it is appropriate that in this 70th anniversary magazine we should say a little about the service of those who have been editors of the m…

None Assigned

History

Property Trusts and Trusteeship

Introduction Whilst there is no example in the New Testament of an assembly having sole access to a building for its meetings, there are definite advantages in that facility being available. However, wi…

None Assigned

Contemporary Issues

Psalm 119 – Monitoring the heart

Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death in the UK, although strides have been made to detect the disease early so that preventative measures can be introduced to monitor those who are a…

Jonathan Black

Exposition

Question Time – Should some assemblies consider meeting in a house instead of a hall?

Question Should some assemblies consider meeting in a house instead of a hall? Answer There will be many assemblies where the possibility of meeting in a house would not be a practical option due to the…

Richard Collings

Question Time

Reports

England Berkshire At the end of April, Daniel Rudge, together with the saints at Bracknell, held a series of gospel meetings. Fifty unsaved, twenty of which were adults, came along to a family lunch on …

Sandy Jack

Report

The Believer as a Worker

Introduction Many people define themselves by the work they do. As Christians we are called to work for the Lord. He calls us, equips us, and defines the sphere of our labours and, in a coming day, He w…

Ken Totton

Contemporary Issues

The Will of God

John’s third Epistle shows how division in the church arose even in the days of the Apostle John. The root cause of such division in our own day, as also then, is the activity of un-judged self. But it …

Albert Rouse

Contemporary Issues

Then came a Rich Man of Arimathea

It is James who, in his epistle, underlines the fact that genuine faith will always be accompanied by appropriate works. A Joseph stands at both the entrance and the exodus of the earthly pathway of the…

John Scarsbrook

Devotional

Truth & Training from Titus – Part 1: Chapter 1 v 1

The Epistle (letter) to Titus, though short, is full of practical teaching about local church life and the personal behaviour of believers. In essence, it is a manual containing truth and training for n…

Stephen Baker

Truth & Training From Titus

Exposition

Book Reviews in this Issue

Looking for the Glory – An Exposition of the Epistle to Titus – Adam D. Thropay

Paperback, 103 pages, Published by Scripture Teaching Library, Cookstown, Northern Ireland. ISBN 978-1-909789-22-7. Adam D. Thropay has been involved in Bible teaching in assemblies in North America f…

John Scarsbrook

If it wasn’t for the Lighthouse – Bill and Irene Ridgeway

Paperback, 112 pages. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St West, Port Colborne, Ontario, L3K 6A6. ISBN 978-1-927521-56-4 If you want to know if missionaries have the same anxieties as we ha…

John Scarsbrook

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