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2016 Volume 71 Issue 3
Articles in this Issue
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A Life of Victory in the Spiritual Conflict – Part 2
The fruit of the Spirit, vv. 22-23 When considering the fruit of the Spirit, two questions may be asked: a) What is meant by the fruit of the Spirit? b) How is this fruit produced? Fruit in scripture re…
James D. McColl
A Life of Victory in the Spiritual Conflict
Devotional
A Word for Today – Grace
The hymn writer John Newton published his first edition of the Olney Hymns in 1779, which he arranged into three books. He states in the preface that, ‘In the first I have classed those which are formed…
Brian Clatworthy
Study
Ahijah The Shilonite – The Lord’s Anger 1 Kgs 14. 1-10
Little that happened in the first ten chapters of 1 Kings prepares the reader for the distressing contents of chapters 11-14. Following Solomon’s request to the Lord for ‘an understanding heart to judge…
Colin Lacey
Devotional
Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 4 – Herod who Mocked Him
It is important to remember in reading the New Testament that the name ‘Herod’ belonged to several people of the same family, much as there were many kings of England named Edward, or George. The first …
Ian Rees
Characters Around the Crucifixion
Study
Christ in Zechariah’s Prophecy – Part 1
If a scriptural reason is needed for studying the person of Christ in the book of Zechariah, we might refer to Peter, ‘To him give all the prophets witness’, Acts 10. 43. Christ Himself endorsed such a …
John Griffiths
Christ in Zechariah’s Prophecy
Devotional
Depression – A Personal Experience
What does it mean when someone says they are depressed or have depression? The answer can be varied. Some people have had a problem or a hard day at work, home, or college and say they are depressed. Fo…
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Contemporary Issues
Editorial – ‘Apollos … mighty in the scriptures’, Acts 18. 24.
In the consideration of Apollos in our last editorial, we wrote that the position and status of pre-eminence belongs to God alone! However, rather than put someone like Apollos on a pedestal, it is also…
John Bennett
Editorial
Ephesians – Part 6: Chapter 3 vv 14-21
As we come to Paul’s supplications we find that there is intimacy with the throne of heaven. All is achieved through the person of the Lord Jesus, for it is both in Him and through Him that we can appro…
Norman Mellish
Ephesians
Devotional
Evangelism – Visitation
Evangelism is engaging with people in an attempt to explain the gospel and show them that they need Christ as their Saviour. Conversing with people in their own homes can be a relaxed and informal way o…
Paul Young
Devotional
The Exercise of Gift in the Local Assembly
The Holy Spirit has gifted believers in order that those who constitute a local assembly may be built up spiritually and numerically. This will only happen as each individual believer recognizes their g…
A Maunder
The Exercise of Gift in the Local Assembly
Devotional
Henry Craik 1805-1866
Few, if any, readers of Church history, or secular history in relation to the care of the poor, would be unfamiliar with the name of George Muller of Bristol. What he accomplished on the basis of faith …
John Bennett
History
Leviticus
1. Introduction The Name of the Book: Like the other books of the Pentateuch, the English Bible follows the ancient Greek translation the Septuagint – as transliterated in Latin by the Vulgate – in titl…
Keith R. Keyser
Exposition
The Lord’s Upper Room Ministry
In previous articles we have looked at our Lord’s relationship to His Father, and learned a lesson on humility, and the Lord’s relationship to Peter, learning the lesson of holiness. In this article we …
D. J. Williams
The Lord’s Upper Room Ministry
Devotional
Question Time – What is meant by the phrase ‘the autonomy of an assembly’?
QUESTION What is meant by the phrase ‘the autonomy of an assembly’? ANSWER I am sure the questioner is well aware that the word ‘autonomy’ does not occur in the scriptures; although that, of itself, doe…
Richard Collings
Question Time
The Deity and Personality of the Holy Spirit
Caveat There are two obvious dangers to be avoided when we seek to explain the nature of any of the blessed persons within the Godhead. The first is reluctance on our part to state how the separate, yet…
Brian Clatworthy
Devotional
The Gospel Preached by the Apostles
On three separate occasions the apostle Paul referred to ‘my gospel’, Rom. 2. 16; 16. 25; 2 Tim. 2. 8. This does not, of course, mean that what he preached was different from what was preached by the ap…
Ian Jackson
Devotional
Their Finest Hour – Mary
When it comes to the study of women in the Bible, there are those who find it easy to select Mary as the most prominent of all due to her role as the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ. If we were to count…
Andrew Mellish
Their Finest Hour
Devotional
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 4: Chapter 1 vv 6-8
This article is part of an on-going study. The writer’s intention is to look at each phrase and statement in the letter and to glean a simple understanding of what Paul was writing to Titus about. There…
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
Devotional
Book Reviews in this Issue
Day by Day – Through the Bible Edited – Ken Totton
Paperback, 381 pages, Published by Precious Seed Publications, 34 Metcalfe Avenue, Killamarsh, UK. ISBN 978 1 871642 80 3. The latest publication in the tried and tested Day by Day series does exactly…
John Scarsbrook
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Insects of the Bible – Tom H. Ratcliffe
Paperback, 81 pages, Published by Bell and Bain Ltd, Glasgow. [Available from John Ritchie Limited]. ISBN: 978 1 871642 810. It may be that if you have never had an interest in entomology then you may…
John Scarsbrook
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Precious Seed 70th Anniversary Edition
Paperback, 212 pages, Published by Precious Seed Publications, 34 Metcalfe Avenue, Killamarsh, UK. ISBN 978 1 871642 77 3. This well presented book incorporates scanned copies of the Precious Seed Mag…
John Scarsbrook
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