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2022 Volume 77 Issue 3
Articles in this Issue
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Anna
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 reflected from the gilded pinnacle of Herod’s te…
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 history and biblical prophecy poin…
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 of God is not bound’, 2 Tim. 2…
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 where He was honoured was in this little village of Bethany, and ther…
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 country in continental America, bordering Guat…
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 In each verse, a two-fold relationship is in view; His ‘God’ and His ‘Father’, and we need to di…
R. Catchpole
The Father
Study
The Finger of God
‘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 Lord Jesus condemned the Pharisees for laying burdens …
Mervyn Wishart
Anthropomorphisms
Study
Hezekiah
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 stopped. Some have drifted spiritually, and even some spir…
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 found on every continent except Antarctica. It is perhaps most not…
John Bennett
Cover Image
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 from which it never really rec…
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, they brought him to Athens. Then, Paul send…
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.1 There are indications of this doctrine in the Old Testament, e.g., Exod. 4. 22, 23; Hos. 11…
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 account, he decided to engage…
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 (ii) distance. We tur…
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 consider why this is such an important issue today. In the autumn of 2021, a…
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 limited in scope. It wi…
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 12. 23-36. This dis…
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 comings of our Lord Jesus. He now concentrates their…
Peter Davies
2 Thessalonians
Exposition
The Twelve Apostles
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 number, Luke 6. 13. We must remember, how…
John Tinkler
Study
A Word for Today: Assembly, Church (Gk. Ekklesia)
ekkleio (To shut out)ekklesia (Assembly, congregation, church)ekklino (To turn aside, deviate) The Greek noun ekklesia, used in the New Testament and translated as the words ‘assembly, congregation or c…
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 the use of fine gold. We saw it with the head. We saw it…
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.ISBN-13. 978-1-914273-15-5 This latest in a series of boo…
John Scarsbrook
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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, Arumbakkam, Chennai 600 106, India.ISBN 978-81-938892-9-9. Po…
John Scarsbrook
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