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2019 Volume 74 Issue 3
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1 and 2 Chronicles
Introduction to 1 Chronicles By JOHN BENNETT Kirkby-in-Ashfield, England Although some of the history of this book is shared with 2 Samuel, it must be remembered that 1 Chronicles was written much later…
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Exposition
A Word for Today – Agape
agapeo (to love, to feel and exhibit esteem) agape (love, brotherly love, affection) agapetos (beloved, esteemed) Perhaps the one major word group in the New Testament whose origin and use is misunderst…
Brian Clatworthy
Study
Character Studies in the Book of Proverbs – Part 7: The Righteous Man
The righteous man occupies the central place in the book of Proverbs. He is seen as a shining example to the various characters as they move around him on the stage of life. His morally upright walk and…
John Scarsbrook
Exposition
Image Cover – Volume 74 Issue 3
‘Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters’, 2 Kgs. 2. 21. The city of Jericho was known in the ancient world as the ‘City of Palm Trees’, Deut. 34. 3, and features prominently in Old Testament h…
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Discipline is Exercised
Most societies operate within set structures, rules are drawn up and the consequences of breaking the rules are clearly stated. So it is with a local church. The basic proposition is that ‘An Assembly i…
Stephen Baker
An Assembly of the Lord’s people will be a people among whom …
Assembly Principles
Editorial – ‘A brother beloved’, Philem. 10. What a difference salvation brings!
One day, as a prisoner in a Roman prison, a young man came face to face with the challenge of the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This young man had been a servant in a wealthy home in Colossae. …
Sandy Jack
Editorial
Joseph Medlicott Scriven (1819 – 1886)
One of our best-known and most-sung hymns must be What a friend we have in Jesus, yet its author, Joseph M. Scriven, is not so well known or remembered as many of the other hymn-writers of the nineteent…
Mitchell Cargill
History
Paul the Priest – The Pouring Out of the Drink Offering – Part 3
‘Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all’, Phil. 2. 17. Once again in the Epistle to the Philippians the Apostle Paul occupies our thoughts…
Stephen Fellowes
Paul the Priest
Devotional
Question Time – Does the first part of 1 John chapter 3 verse 8 teach us that a Christian will never sin?
Question Does the first part of 1 John chapter 3 verse 8 teach us that a Christian will never sin? Answer In responding to the above question it may help to quote what the verse actually says and then t…
Richard Collings
Question Time
Tanzania – A land of many opportunities to serve the Lord – Part 2
Compiled by Stephen Davies Tanzania, from contributions from missionary colleagues The Emmaus Bible School correspondence course was started right from the beginning of missionary work in Tanzania in 19…
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Report
The Chronology of Revelation – Chapters 21 and 22 – Part 2
Specific considerations In chapter 21 verses 1 to 5, a city called the New Jerusalem descends from God’s presence. ‘I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared…
Alan Summers
The Chronology of Revelation – Chapters 21 and 22
Exposition
The Epistle to the Colossians – Part 6
Paul’s two ministries, 1. 23 to 2. 3. The two ministries were given to Paul ‘according to the dispensation of God’, v. 25. He is a ‘minister’ of ‘the gospel’ and a ‘minister’ of ‘the church’, vv. 23, 25…
William Banks
The Epistle to the Colossians
Exposition
The Gospel of Mark – Part 7
The theme of the Galilean ministry of the Lord continues into chapter 2 of the Gospel, but, in this chapter, we see the storm clouds of opposition and conflict begin to cross that ministry. It is a sad …
John Bennett
The Gospel of Mark
Exposition
The Logos School – Cyprus
By Colin P. Clarke, Chairman of The Logos Trust It would not be incorrect to say that the beginnings of the Logos School began at the Nuremberg Trials in Germany at the end of the Second World War. It w…
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Report
The Messianic Psalms – Psalm 69
The Travails of the Trespass Offering Life is filled with multifarious troubles. In His incarnation, our Lord Jesus Christ experienced the tribulations that are endemic to the human condition in a falle…
Keith R. Keyser
The Messianic Psalms
Exposition
The Slaughter of the Innocents: Matthew Chapter 2
The events of this chapter are not recorded anywhere else. No other Gospel writer mentions the visit of the magi, the slaughter of the innocents, nor the emergency flight into Egypt. And, to date, no se…
Jeremy Gibson
Exposition
The Son of God His Incarnation
Incarnation literally means ‘becoming flesh’.1 The word is not used in the Bible, but the truth of it is there and the evidence of it is clear. The incarnation of the Son means that the Son of God becam…
Bert Cargill
Devotional
The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Dan
Of all the tribes we have considered thus far, the tribe of Dan is perhaps the one which is most dismal. After the joy of observing God’s hand in the tribe of Judah, there are far fewer positive qualiti…
Lloyd Stock
Exposition
Website Reviews
adailydevotion.com The website adailydevotion.com reflects a larger shift in the way Christians and society now read their material. Although books and magazines will always have their place, there are …
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Contemporary Issues
Book Reviews in this Issue
When Christians roamed the earth
Authors, Henry Morris, Ken Ham, Jack Cuozzo and others. Paperback, 192 pages, Published by Master Books, Inc., PO Box 727, Green Forest, AR 72638. ISBN: 978-0-89051-319-8 This title caught my eye and …
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The Messianic Jewish Epistles: An Exposition of Hebrews,  James, 1 & 2 Peter and Jude
Author, Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum Th.M, Ph.D. Hardback, 478 pages, Published by Ariel Ministries, P.O. Box 792507, San Antonio, TX 78279-2507 ISBN 978-0-914863-11-8 It is extremely difficult for a twenty…
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