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2020 Volume 75 Issue 3

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1 Thessalonians Chapter 4 – Readiness for his coming

This is a chapter of challenge on the one hand, and cheer on the other. It opens with a call to holiness and concludes with the call to heaven. In view of the fact that we are a heav ...

Peter Davies

1 Thessalonians

Exposition

An Assembly of the Lord’s people will be a people among whom – Worship Arises to God – Part 8

As we examine the scriptures, we discover that the churches of the first century came together for at least six different kinds of meetings. Due to the prevailing social conditions, ...

Alastair Sinclair

An Assembly of the Lord’s people will be a people among whom …

Exposition

An overview of Job

Introduction The title of the book is taken from the person whose experience it records. That Job was a historical figure is confirmed by later references to him in the scri ...

R. Catchpole

Exposition

Aspects of Calvary – The blood of Christ in Hebrews – Part 2

There are twenty references to blood in the Epistle to the Hebrews, most of which deal directly or indirectly with the great matter of sacrifice. It would be impossible to embrace al ...

Stephen Fellowes

Aspects of Calvary

Devotional

Assembly work in the Northern State of Pará, Brazil

The place For many years, servants of the Lord in this region of Pará, Brazil, have proved the precious promise of Isaiah chapter 43 verse 2 in a very literal way, as they ...

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Report

Balaam – Part 1: Numbers 22. 1-38

The chapter opens with the children of Israel pitched in the plains of Moab, east of the River Jordan, over against Jericho. The wilderness journey is concluded, the next movement is ...

R. Catchpole

Balaam

Exposition

Image Cover – Volume 75 Issue 3

‘Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men’, Mark 1. 17 NKJV At the time of the creation we read that God gave man the authority to rule over the ...

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Editorial ‘We … sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre … and finding disciples, we tarried there’, Acts 21. 3, 4

As we read through the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles, it is often perplexing to know why the inspired writer should record in places the minute detail of Paul’s journey. Th ...

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Editorial

Hagar

Hagar was a slave. She had no rights. She could not request time off for rest and recuperation. She could not express her opinion. She couldn’t campaign for better working conditio ...

Frank Proudlock

Old Testament Women Who Appear in the New Testament

Exposition

Open Air Work

For the purpose of street preaching, I use a magnetic board, very similar in principle to the decorator’s pasting table, which is hinged and can be opened out. The upper section is ...

Ian Campbell

Report

Question Time – Is it right for Christians to gamble?

QUESTION Is it right for Christians to gamble? ANSWER Since there are no specific verses in the Bible that either sanction ...

Frank Proudlock

Question Time

The Epistle to the Colossians – Part 10

The significance of being raised with Christ, 3. 1-4 – ‘ye have been raised with the Christ’ JND. Continued. ‘Seek those things which are above’, v. 1, ‘where’; practical, ext ...

William Banks

The Epistle to the Colossians

Exposition

The Gospel of Mark – Part 11

As we continue our studies in chapter 3 and the Galilean ministry of the Lord, we come to the choosing of the twelve. The servants, vv. 13-19 The Lor ...

John Bennett

The Gospel of Mark

A Word for Today

The Messianic Psalms – Psalm 102: The Messiah, Afflicted Yet Victorious

People sometimes feel overwhelmed by life’s struggles. Amid physical, emotional, and spiritual difficulties, they wonder where to turn. The Lord Jesus promis ...

Keith R. Keyser

The Messianic Psalms

Exposition

The Resurrection and Ascension of Christ

The resurrection is central to Christianity. Every fundamental of our faith depends on it. Put simply, if there is no resurrection Christianity falls apart and is just another false, ...

Alastair Sinclair

A Word for Today

The Storm on the Lake

References are from the NKJV unless stated Although violent storms were common on the Sea of Galilee, clearly this was no ordinary storm. Even experienced fis ...

Malcolm Horlock

Devotional

The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Issachar

Scripture’s record of the tribe of Issachar is most interesting. There are several surprises as well as other details which are just plain obscure and difficult to unravel with any ...

Lloyd Stock

Exposition

What does the Bible tell us about the future? – Part 4 – Israel – The persecution of the nation

Introduction The nation of Israel has often been the victim of the most bitter persecution ever since they became a nation in Egypt under the Pharaohs after the time of Jose ...

Malcolm C. Davis

What Does the Bible Tell Us About the Future?

A Word for Today

William Henry Bennet (1843-1920)

The life of William Bennet is a good illustration of how God equips a dedicated soul to serve Him in ways that the individual might originally be unaware of. William Bennet eventuall ...

Howard A. Barnes

History

Word for Today – Anastasis

anaspao (to draw up) anastasis (resurrection) anastatoo (to stir up, excite, unsettle) Who would have thought that in a ...

Brian Clatworthy

Study

Book Reviews in this Issue

How shattered dreams became reality (Lessons from the life of Joseph) – Jack Hay

139 pages, Paperback. Published by John Ritchie Ltd, 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, Scotland. ISBN-13: 978-1-912522-74-3.

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Traditions to Treasure – Continuing Steadfastly

Bert Cargill and James Brown 242 pages, Paperback. Published by John Ritchie, 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, Scotland. ISBN-13: 978-1-912522-67-5.

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