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2018 Volume 73 Issue 1
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‘I Have Redeemed Thee … and Thou art Mine’
Whilst these words are specifically addressed to Jacob and Israel, it must be noted that ‘thee’ and ‘thou’ are singular. Israel might be God’s redeemed ones perpetually, in spite of their failure and si…
Eddie Honeyball
Devotional
A Word for Today: Missing the mark, Guilt, Sin (Gk. Hamartia)
hamartema, n (Sin, evil deed) hamartia, n(A missing the mark, guilt, sin) hamartolos(Devoted to sin, a sinner) Although there are at least nine different words in the Greek New Testament to describe sin…
Brian Clatworthy
Study
At His Feet: John 11 – Weeping at His Feet
One simple lesson we can learn from this chapter is that believers are not immune to sorrow or exempt from times of grief and loss. From the first verse we learn of the close relationship that existed b…
John Bennett
Exposition
Character Studies in the Book of Proverbs – Part 1
The Old Testament commences with seventeen books of history – Genesis to Esther, and closes with seventeen books of prophecy – Isaiah to Malachi. In between are five books – Job to Song of Solomon – whi…
John Scarsbrook
Character Studies in the Book of Proverbs
Exposition
Characters Around the Crucifixion – Part 10: Joseph Who Buried Him
The crowds had watched Jesus of Nazareth die. They had observed the Roman soldiers breaking the legs of the two thieves on either side of our Lord, in order to hasten their deaths. They had also heard t…
Ian Rees
Characters Around the Crucifixion
Exposition
Editorial
‘Take heed therefore how ye hear’, Luke 8. 18. In every generation, God has His messengers. In Old Testament times, preachers like Noah declared the righteousness of God to an antediluvian audience, an…
Sandy Jack
Editorial
Ephesians – Part 12: Chapter 6 vv 1-17
Stand against the adversary Having appreciated our heavenly calling in chapters 1 to 3, and something of our earthly conduct that continues from chapter 4 to verse 9 of this chapter, we will then be con…
Norman Mellish
Ephesians
Exposition
First Samuel
Introduction First Samuel is a book of contrasts. There are the themes of light and darkness that pervade the book. The times of spiritual darkness might be summarized by the writer’s comments in chapte…
John Bennett
Exposition
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‘And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount’, Exod. 19. 20. Even today, the exact location of Mount Sinai is highly disputed by scholars, but the traditional view, going back as …
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Legality, Liberty and Diversity
In a free society promoting liberty and diversity, ‘legalism’ is a common cry. If something is judged as absolutely right or wrong, not respecting personal choice, it’s now labelled ‘legalistic’. If it …
Randal Amos
Exposition
Mambilima Mission 1898 to 2017
Mambilima means ‘the jumping waters’ and gets its name from the raging of the waters of the Luapula River over the rocky outcrop just above the village. Dan Crawford reached this point in his canoe as h…
Robert Muir
Report
Question Time – There was a lot of music linked to worship in the Old Testament, is it appropriate for today?
Question There was a lot of music linked to worship in the Old Testament, is it appropriate for today? Answer Generally speaking, up until the middle of the twentieth century many assemblies had no mus…
Richard Collings
Question Time
Seven Prophecies of the Church’s Condition Fulfilled
Some see the church as full of hypocrites and errors. These seven prophecies show this would happen. God allows the negative to reveal the positive, Mal. 3. 13-17. May we see this as a test and thus an …
Randal Amos
Exposition
Sir Robert Anderson (1841–1918)
Christian magazines like this one do not normally contain articles describing the life of a man who was a spymaster, a chief police detective, a knight, and a prolific author on Bible topics, but this r…
Howard A. Barnes
History
The Gospel of Mark – Part 1
Introduction The Gospel of Mark is designed to portray the Lord Jesus Christ as the perfect Servant of Jehovah. Sidlow Baxter wrote, ‘What Jesus did proves who He was. What He wrought authenticates what…
John Bennett
The Gospel of Mark
Exposition
The Messianic Psalms – Psalm 24
The 24th Psalm can be considered in at least three ways. Historically Viewed thus, it is generally accepted that it can be connected to the joyful occasion when David brought the ark of the covenant fro…
R. Catchpole
The Messianic Psalms
Exposition
The Ministry of the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Believer
Introduction The Lord Jesus told His disciples that the future relationship that believers would enjoy with the Holy Spirit would be: ‘he dwelleth with you [i.e., by your side], and shall be in you’, Jo…
Howard A. Barnes
Exposition
The Scene of the Cross of Calvary – Part 1
Spurgeon once wrote, ‘A work done in a day and wondered at forever’. Whilst each Gospel writer brings before us different views of the Lord in His birth and life, they must present to us the purpose of …
John Tinkler
The Scene of the Cross of Calvary
Devotional
Their Finest Hour – John
John wrote his Gospel that, ‘ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name’, 20. 31, and his first Epistle so that, ‘ye may know that …
Michael Buckeridge
Their Finest Hour
Devotional
Truth & Training from Titus – Part 10: Chapter 3 vv 8-11
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. It mig…
Stephen Baker
Truth & Training From Titus
Exposition
What is Meant by Insiration?
The word inspiration The word ‘inspiration’ can have different meanings depending on its context, as is the case with many other words. Its root is a Latin word, spirare, which means ‘to breathe’, with …
Bert Cargill
Exposition
Book Reviews in this Issue
Bethlehem to Bethany – Jack Strahan
Hardback, 192 pages, Published by Scripture Teaching Library, Cookstown, Northern Ireland. ISBN: 978-1-909789-31-9 From the title alone one might consider this book to deal with familiar places in the…
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Cuckoos in the nest … apostasy in the church – Sam Gordon
Paperback, 145 pages, published by Christian Year Publications, available from John Ritchie Ltd, 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, KA3 1RH. ISBN 978-1-872734-43-9. A book review is, by its very nature, a subj…
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Truth for Today – Paul’s Letter to the Colossians – Edited by J. D. Rice
Paperback, 82 pages, Published by Scripture Truth Publications, 31-33 Glover Street, Crewe, CW1 3LD, UK. ISBN: 978-0-901860-58-3 As the Foreword suggests, this book might be best described as ‘suitabl…
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