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2016 Volume 71 Issue 4
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A Word for Today – ‘Es (Tree, wood)
Trees play an essential part in protecting our environment and meeting many of our practical needs. They produce large amounts of oxygen on a daily basis, and constantly absorb harmful carbon dioxides. …
Brian Clatworthy
Study
Argentina
The Background Accompanied by Roman Catholic priests, both Spanish and Portuguese invaders came to conquer and convert in South America. For three centuries South America was the stronghold of Roman Cat…
Jim Burnett
Report
Changes in the Precious Seed Trust
As the careful reader will have noted, there have been a number of significant changes in the Precious Seed Trust over the course of 2016. These changes will enable us to move forward in 2017 DV, and I …
John Bennett
Report
Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 5: Pilate Who Condemned Him
Pontius Pilate was caught in a trap. He had been given the unenviable task of governing the Roman province of Judea. No proud people ever love being subjugated by a foreign power, but the Jews had a rep…
Ian Rees
Characters Around the Crucifixion
Exposition
Christ in Zechariah’s Prophecy – Part 2
(III) THE ADVENT OF THE LORD, ‘Behold, I will bring forth’, 3. 8, 9. (i) ‘My servant the Branch’, v. 8. Isaiah writes of Christ and His servant character. His first song begins, ‘Behold, my servant’, 42…
John Griffiths
Christ in Zechariah’s Prophecy
Devotional
Editorial
‘For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing’, Acts 17. 21. From this verse one might suggest that there are many…
John Bennett
Editorial
Ephesians – Part 7: Chapter 4 vv 1-16
Chapter 4 verses 1-16 The epistle now turns to what is practical. If we have seen doctrinal truth in chapters 1-3, where our wealth is set before us, now we have the desire of God that we live out the t…
Norman Mellish
Ephesians
Exposition
ESL Evangelism in Vancouver, A Philadelphian Open Door?
It is the responsibility of believers to preach the gospel to all the world, Mark 16. 15. Helping newcomers to our country to learn English and using this as an avenue to present to them the glorious go…
Harold Summers
Report
God’s weeping prophet and wayward people: Jeremiah’s prophecy and Lamentations – Malcolm C. Davis
Paperback, 269 pages, Published by John Ritchie Ltd, 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, KA3 1RH, Scotland. ISBN: 0978-1-910513-50-7. A cursory glance at the brief comment on the back cover of this book brought m…
John Scarsbrook
A Word for Today
Jehu The Son of Hanani
Read 1 Kings 16. 1-7; 2 Chronicles 19. 1-4 Baasha, King of Israel, came to power by assassinating Nadab, the son of Jeroboam. The historian recorded of him, ‘And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, an…
Colin Lacey
Devotional
Jeremiah Faithful Amidst Unfaithfulness
The Oxford English Dictionary commemorates Jeremiah’s legacy with the word ‘jeremiad’, defining it as ‘a lamentation; a writing or speech in a strain of grief or distress; a doleful complaint; a complai…
Keith R. Keyser
Exposition
The Name of the Lord Jesus Christ
This article explores the name of the Lord Jesus Christ as it is associated with collective Christian activity. Whilst it is often stated that believers should gather to the name of the Lord Jesus, it i…
Walter Gustafson
Devotional
Numbers
1. Introduction The Hebrew name of the book is bemidhbar, meaning ‘In the wilderness’. This phrase occurs repeatedly in the book, e.g., 1. 1, and accurately describes its setting.1 In the ancient Greek …
Keith R. Keyser
Exposition
Question Time – Is ill health an evidence of God’s chastening?
QUESTION Is ill health an evidence of God’s chastening? ANSWER The root cause of all suffering is sin not sins. For example, a baby that only lives a few hours or weeks does not die because it has sinne…
Richard Collings
Question Time
Redemption
It is important to distinguish not only the various aspects of the work of Calvary but also their effects, so as to avoid confusion of thought and doctrine. When the Holy Spirit speaks of truths such as…
Ian Jackson
Devotional
The Deity and Personality of the Holy Spirit Part 2
Continuing our examination of the essential characteristics or attributes of God: Omnipresence It is difficult for us as human beings who think in terms of being in one place at any one time in the worl…
Brian Clatworthy
Devotional
The Gospel of the Kingdom and the Everlasting Gospel
One of the most glorious themes of scripture is that our Lord Jesus Christ, once rejected and disowned, will reign on earth in power and glory in a kingdom which has no end, in which He will be vindicat…
Ian Jackson
Exposition
Their Finest Hour – Stephen
Stephen, the first martyr of the church age, flashes on and off the page of Holy Scripture in just three action-packed chapters in the Acts of the Apostles, yet leaves a legacy that changed the course o…
Gareth Edwards
Their Finest Hour
Devotional
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 5: Chapter 1 vv 9-10
This article is part of an ongoing 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
Beginnings: Old Testament Overview Volume 1 – Richard Catchpole
Paperback, 323 Pages, Published by Precious Seed Publications, 34 Metcalfe Avenue, Killamarsh, UK. ISBN 978-1-871642-66-7. Precious Seed Publications set themselves the very worthy task of providing C…
John Scarsbrook
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Christian Frontline Series: The Christian and Money – Hansruedi Graf
Paperback, 94 pages, Chapter Two, Fountain House, 3 Conduit Mews, London, SE18 7AP, United Kingdom ISBN 978-1-85307-257-4. Programmes or articles about money are usually deadly boring. Who can listen …
John Scarsbrook
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