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2022 Volume 77 Issue 3

Articles in this Issue

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The day dawned like any other day for most of Jerusalem’s residents. As the sun rose over the ancient hills of Moab to the east of Jordan, its first rays ref ...

John Scarsbrook

The Widows of Luke’s Gospel

Devotional

A Brief Look Into the Death and Burial of Jesus Christ – Mark 15. 33–47 – Part 1

Introduction If the timeline of human history is imagined as an hourglass, the crucifixion of Christ would be the pinch point, the narrow part in the middle. All human histo ...

Dejice Jacob

Devotional

Drive-In Gospel Meetings – In South Wales

Introduction In bringing Covid 19 to the shores of the UK, Amos 3. 6, the Lord has provided many and varied ways for the gospel to go beyond its usual precincts. ‘The word ...

Huw Rees

Report

Editorial – August 2022

‘Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany’, John 12. 1 One of the few places on earth where the Lord was received and wher ...

John Bennett

Editorial

El Salvador

In April of 2019, we had a national conference in San Salvador to commemorate fifty years of assembly testimony in El Salvador. El Salvador is the smallest coun ...

Kevin Flett

Report

The Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Some six times in the New Testament, reference is made to ‘the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ’.1 ...

‘For they bind heavy burdens … and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers’, Matt. 23. 4. The Lor ...

The man who opened the doors of the House of the Lord In the last two years, the doors of many halls have been closed, and public meetings have stoppe ...

Tim Kimber

Devotional

‘I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top’, Ps. 102. 7

‘I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top’, Ps. 102. 7. The sparrow is one of our most familiar wild birds, and said to be f ...

John Bennett

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Jeremiah

Introduction When Manasseh and his son were on the throne, the southern kingdom of Judah arguably went through its darkest period. They took the nation to appalling depths f ...

Colin Lacey

Centre Pages

Paul’s Second Missionary Journey – Part 2

Paul departed from Berea at the request of the brethren due to the problems stirred up by the Jews of Thessalonica. Sending some of their own to show the way, ...

Michael Buckeridge

Paul’s Missionary Journeys

Study

Pauline Metaphors – Part 3: Adoption

Introduction The word adoption only occurs five times in the New Testament and is confined to Paul’s letters.

Richard Collings

Studies in Pauline Metaphors

The Parable of the Unrighteous Steward – Luke 16. 1–18

The parable of the unrighteous steward is possibly the most puzzling of all the Lord’s parables. The story concerns a steward who wasted his master’s goods. Being called to accou ...

Andrew Wilson

Economic Parables

Study

The Power of the Word – Part 2

This is the second of three articles which focus on the power of our Lord’s word. In the first article we considered a few instances of the power of His word over: (i) disease; and ...

Malcolm Horlock

Study

Question Time – What Should Our Attitude Be Towards Environmental Issues Such As Climate Change?

What Should Our Attitude Be Towards Environmental Issues Such As Climate Change? ANSWER To answer this question, let us first consid ...

Frank Proudlock

Question Time

Some Remarks on Testimony in Quebec

The deliberately modest title of this short article reflects the writer’s disinclination to make sweeping statements and a conviction that anything he says on its subject will be l ...

Mark Fenn

Report

The Son of Man – Part 1

In a powerful discourse recorded for us by the Apostle John, our Lord indicates how, as the Son of man, He would be glorified by the Father through being lifted up upon a cross, John ...

Brian Clatworthy

Son of…

Devotional

2 Thessalonians – Chapter 3

Introduction We have now come to the last chapter of this second Epistle. In the two previous chapters, Paul has written about the subject of the two ...

Three times in the Gospels and once in the book of the Acts we have a record of the apostles. Much has been considered why these men were selected from a larger ...

John Tinkler

Study

A Word for Today: Assembly, Church (Gk. Ekklesia)

ekkleio (To shut out)ekklesia (Assembly, congregation, church)ekklino< ...

Brian Clatworthy

A Word for Today

Study

What Is Thy Beloved? – Part 4

His legs ‘His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold’, S. of S. 5. 15. As we have thought about these verses, we have noted t ...

Andrew Bennett

What Is Thy Beloved More Than Another Beloved?

Devotional

Book Reviews in this Issue

Ezekiel – Coming Back From Exile

Ezekiel - Coming Back From Exile by John Riddle576 pages, Paperback.Published by John Ritchie Ltd, 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, KA3 1RH, Scotland.

John Scarsbrook

Penned for His Praise

Penned for His Praise by Joanna DanielHardback, 106 pages,Published by Moriah Ministries, PO Box 7193, 31-33 Water Tank Road, MMDA Colony, Arumbakk ...

John Scarsbrook

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