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2022 Volume 77 Issue 1
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Albania
Albania is a beautiful country, situated in South-eastern Europe bordering Montenegro, Kosovo, Northern Macedonia, and Greece. The population1 within its border is only three million, but in an ethnical…
Enris Nase
Report
Balaam – Part 7: Numbers 23. 27 – 24. 9
As we mentioned in the last article, Israel’s influence will yet be worldwide, as a channel of blessing to others, ‘And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lo…
R. Catchpole
Balaam
Study
The Calmness of Christ
Amongst the virtues of the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, little has been spoken or written about His calmness. Sadly, calmness is not a virtue which humanity excels at. In fact, we are so often fo…
Roderick A Barton
Devotional
The Council at Jerusalem and Its Lessons for Us
Being a Christian, and in fellowship with other Christians, will expose us all to difficulties and problems. The Acts of the Apostles is an honest testimony of such problems and difficulties in the earl…
John Bennett
Paul’s Missionary Journeys
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Cover Image – ‘The Heron After Her Kind’
‘The heron after her kind’, Lev. 11. 19; Deut. 14. 18. In the list of birds that were regarded as unclean and therefore not to be consumed by Israelites, it is relatively easy to appreciate why birds of…
John Bennett
Cover Image
Editorial – February 2022
‘From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures’, 2 Tim. 3. 15. There are many lessons that emanate from the early days of Timothy that should be carefully considered, lessons which those of us who ar…
Sandy Jack
Editorial
The Father of Lights
‘Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning’, Jas. 1. 17. On the first day of creation, God …
Mervyn Wishart
The Father
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The Four Beasts of Psalm 22
For some years four impressive life-size, bronze statues/ sculptures stood together in the plaza between the law school and the main library of Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. They repres…
David Brauch
Study
The Great White Throne Judgements Rev. 20. 11-15
Introduction Just before beginning this article, I read about a man who the previous day had been sentenced to thirty years in prison for a particularly heinous crime. Due to his age, the probability is…
Richard Collings
What Does the Bible Tell Us About the Future?
Prophecy
The Inspiration of Scripture – Part 2
We now come to the proof of inspiration. In this connection, we should notice that while we value the work of archaeologists, scientists and historians, and have nothing to fear from any of them, our ac…
John Riddle
The Inspiration of Scripture
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The Island of St. Lucia
Its position St. Lucia is a small tropical island in the Caribbean Sea located about 400km north of South America. With a very mountainous terrain, the majority of the population of approximately 180,00…
Phil Gould
Report
The Lord Is on Our Side
Historically, Israel is one of the most persecuted nations. Their continued existence as an identifiable people is testimony to the truth of God’s promises. The psalms of ‘degrees’ or ‘ascents’ contain …
Keith R. Keyser
Study
Pauline Metaphors – Part 1: Citizenship
‘For our conversation [citizenship] is in heaven’, Phil. 3. 20; ‘Only let your conversation [walk as citizens] be as it becometh the gospel of Christ’, Phil. 1. 27. Are you a good citizen? In the UK, …
Michael Buckeridge
Studies in Pauline Metaphors
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Question Time – Is It Acceptable for a Christian To Get a Tattoo?
QUESTION Is it acceptable for a Christian to get a tattoo? Answer An online survey conducted in 2018 estimated that 40% of responders in the UK had received at least one tattoo with similar trends being…
Frank Proudlock
Question Time
A Reflection on John Chapter 13 Verses 1 to 17
There is a lovely picture of advocacy in the Upper Room ministry. Indeed, we might have been a little surprised if there wasn’t, bearing in mind that four times over our original word, parakletos, is fo…
William Banks
Devotional
Solomon’s Temple – Part 2
The temple courts Solomon’s temple and palace were part of a large complex of courtyards and buildings, linked by guarded gates and built upon a foundation of large, carefully hewed stones.1 The other b…
Jeremy Gibson
Solomon’s Temple
Centre Pages
The Son of God
The phrases ‘Son of God’ and ‘sons of God’ occur fifty-nine times in the King James Version of the Bible. Only six references are found in the Old Testament, most of which refer to angels.1 In the New T…
Daniel Rudge
Son of…
Devotional
The Teenage Years and the Challenge of Secondary Education
When the eleven-year-old walks through the gates of their secondary school for the very first time, it is the beginning of the first day of a most challenging period in their lives. It is not only chall…
None Assigned
Contemporary Issues
2 Thessalonians – Chapter 1
It appears this second letter of Paul to the Thessalonian church followed soon after his first letter. Some suggest it might have only been a few months later. Although a much shorter letter, it is an i…
Peter Davies
2 Thessalonians
Exposition
What Is Thy Beloved? – Part 2
In our first article we considered something of the general features mentioned by the Shulamite as well as one or two features that were conspicuous. She mentioned her beloved as the standard bearer and…
Andrew Bennett
What Is Thy Beloved More Than Another Beloved?
Devotional
The Widow of Serepta
This notable widow is directly mentioned in two passages in the word of God: 1 Kings chapter 17 verses 8 to 24, part of the record concerning the ministry of the prophet Elijah; and by the Lord Jesus in…
R. Catchpole
Old Testament Women Who Appear in the New Testament
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A Word for Today: Fear (Gk. Phobos)
phbaytron - Terrorphobos - FearPhoebe - Phoebe The Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition 1989) defines the word ‘fear’ as ‘the emotion of pain or uneasiness caused by the sense of impending danger’,…
Brian Clatworthy
A Word for Today
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Book Reviews in this Issue
Daily Shall He Be Praised
A day by day anthology of Hymn writers and their work.Paperback, 221 pages. Published by Scripture Teaching Library, Northern Ireland.Available from Ards Bookshop, Newtownards, Northern Ireland. ISBN: 9…
John Scarsbrook
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One Is Your Master Even Christ
192 pages, Hardback, Published by The Bereans Publishing Ltd., 38 Mountain Road, Kilkeel, County Down, BT34 4BB.ISBN: 978-1-913232-20-7. As the back cover summary indicates, this book has been written…
John Scarsbrook
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