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2017 Volume 72 Issue 2
Articles in this Issue
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A Word for Today – Panim
Human beings have always been fascinated with faces, simply because the face says a lot about an individual. We can quickly detect a person’s mood from their facial expression. Our appearance can change…
Brian Clatworthy
Study
Bible Exhibitions as an Evangelistic Tool
In recent years, Bible Exhibitions have been used as a means of reaching young people and adults with the message of the gospel and providing a deeper understanding of the Bible. Typically, they are set…
Ian Grant
Organisations
Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 7: The Thief who turned to Him
Scripture tells us that our Lord was to be ‘numbered with the transgressors’, and so He arrived at Golgotha ‘where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst’…
Ian Rees
Characters Around the Crucifixion
Exposition
Charting the Scriptures – Joshua
Jonathan Black
Study
Christ in Zechariah’s Prophecy – Part 4
(VII) THE ALLUSIONS TO THE LORD, 10. 4 (i) The Corner, i.e., the cornerstone. Christ as the foundation stone is the bedrock of Israel’s Messianic hopes. The cornerstone was also the keystone which broug…
John Griffiths
Exposition
Editorial – ‘They were cleansed … where are the nine?’ Luke 17. 14, 17
How precious it is to be ‘cleansed’! The defilement that sin brings to the human condition is not to be underestimated, and as these ten lepers ‘stood afar off’ they knew something of the isolation that…
Sandy Jack
Editorial
Ephesians – Part 9: Chapter 5 vv 1-14
The sanctifying influence of love As we approach this fifth chapter, it is good to glance over the supreme interest of the Lord in the church seen in it. It is formed of believers in the Lord Jesus who …
Norman Mellish
Ephesians
Exposition
Godly Living in the Workplace – Its Pressures
It might seem strange to some readers that this article draws on New Testament teaching relating to masters and slaves. However, it is submitted that the behavioural principles set out for healthy relat…
Colin Lacey
Contemporary Issues
Introduction to the Messianic Psalms – Part 2
Editor’s Comment: Please note that this article is Part 2 of an introduction to these Psalms. Part 1 was published in the February issue of the magazine. The Messianic Psalms in the ministry of Christ T…
R. Catchpole
Introduction to the Messianic Psalms
Exposition
Joshua
Introduction – Purpose and plan The book of Joshua marks an important milestone in the history of the nation. Promise was made to Abram in Genesis chapter 12 of both a land and a nation. Abram and his i…
John Scarsbrook
Devotional
Keeping the Wise Men in Focus
Keeping in focus the persons you wish to photograph is essential to having a clear picture of them. With the wise men in Matthew’s Gospel chapter 2 we see a clear picture of them because Matthew wrote u…
Nevil Williams
Devotional
Local Church Discipline
This is a much-neglected area of teaching today. It is little surprise, therefore, that there have been so many examples over the years of disciplinary matters that have been either ignored or inappropr…
Colin Lacey
Devotional
The Messianic Psalms – Psalm 2: The Triumph of The King
With tremendous realism, the second Psalm depicts the rebellious condition of the present world, demonstrating the obdurate opposition of fallen human beings towards their creator. It also describes God…
Keith R. Keyser
The Messianic Psalms
Exposition
Question Time – Would it be in order to have a hymn or reading between breaking bread and drinking the cup?
Question Would it be in order to have a hymn or reading between breaking bread and drinking the cup? Answer Although we are given very clear instructions as to the preparation required by those who part…
Richard Collings
Question Time
Symbols of the Holy Spirit
Introduction There can be no more fascinating and inexhaustible study than the study of God. We are familiar with the multiplicity of titles and offices of Christ which, together, highlight the greatnes…
Ken Totton
Devotional
The Believer as a Pilgrim
What comes into your mind when you consider the terms ‘pilgrim’ or ‘pilgrimage’? My English dictionary1 defines pilgrim as ‘a person who undertakes a journey to a shrine or other sacred place’. This com…
Ken Totton
Contemporary Issues
The Fruit of the Spirit – Part 1 – The Character Developed in the Believer
Fruit – that which is produced externally from a life source within a plant or being. So too with the believer, having been sealed and indwelt by the Spirit of God, should be giving evidence of spiritua…
Fred Whitelock
The Fruit Of The Spirit
Exposition
Their Finest Hour – Paul
An Old Soldier’s Triumphant Finish BBC Radio 4 airs a programme called Great Lives, in which a celebrity picks a notable historical figure and describes their admirable qualities. Judging by spiritual c…
Keith R. Keyser
Their Finest Hour
Contemporary Issues
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 7: Chapter 2 vv 1-9
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
Exposition
Book Reviews in this Issue
Opening up Proverbs – Jim Newheiser
Paperback, 182 pages, Published by Day One Publications, Leominster, HR6 8NZ, UK. ISBN 978-1-84625-110-8. The ‘Opening up’ series covers many of the books of scripture, written by a number of respecte…
John Scarsbrook
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The Suffering Servant of the Lord: A Prophecy of Jesus Christ
Author – David J. MacLeod. Paperback, 225 pages, Published by Emmaus Bible College, Dubuque, Iowa, 2016 ISBN 978-0-692-53824-1. David MacLeod, a Professor at Emmaus Bible College and a commended teach…
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