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2026 Volume 81 Issue 3
‘And When We Had Sailed Over the Sea . . . We Came to Myra’, Acts 27. 5.
‘And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra’, Acts 27. 5. Of course, this is really the Mediterranean Sea but the section of it described lies off the coast of Cilicia…
John Bennett
Front Cover
The Authority of God Indicated
Our studies now move into the second main division of Ezekiel. Herein we see that the book is not only arranged chronologically but also thematically as oracles against foreign nations are grouped topic…
Graeme Andrews
Ezekiel the Seer
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Editorial – August 2026
‘Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine’, 1 Tim. 4. 13. Without a doubt our world is changing radically - economically, politically, morally, technologically, and socially.…
Graeme Andrews
Editorial
Exodus 33 – Thy Presence in Our Midst
Our previous study was in Exodus 32 and we looked at some of the details that made the ‘molten calf’ sin such a grievous one. We pick up the story where we see God responding in His righteousness. The L…
Tim Geske
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The Face of God
Since our Lord told us that ‘God is Spirit’, John 4. 24 NKJV, it goes without saying that God does not have a body neither does He have a face. Before the incarnation of our Lord, the three members of t…
Ian Rees
Anthropomorphisms
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God’s Purpose in Redundancy
A meditation on Psalm 105 verses 16 and 17 ‘When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread, he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave’, ESV. Introduction In 2…
Graeme Smith
Practical
I Am the Bread of Life, John 6. 33
‘And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst’, John 6. 35 This is the first of the seven delightful ‘I am’ s…
Mervyn Wishart
The ‘I AM’ Statements of Scripture
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Jehovah Tsidkenu – the Lord Our Righteousness
Of all the Old Testament prophets, Jeremiah had one of the most difficult jobs. His call was to prophesy in the final days of the kingdom of Judah. From the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah, when …
Andrew Ware
Titles of Jehovah
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Jerusalem – the Temple
The Gospels record the Lord Jesus visiting the temple in Jerusalem on at least seven occasions. Luke describes the two early visits in His childhood, while John focuses on four visits during His public …
Frank Proudlock
Towns and Cities in the Life of the Lord
Devotional
The King of Israel
The extraordinary life of ‘Elisha the man of God’, 2 Kgs. 5. 8, is epitomized in the events of 2 Kings chapters 6, 7, and 8. In these chapters we see Elisha disrupting the plans of kings, defeating his …
Phil Raggett
The Life and Times of Elisha
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The ‘Looks’ of the Lord Jesus – Part 3
[All quotations are from the New King James Bible unless otherwise stated] (iii) In Mark chapter 11, we read of the second occasion when the Lord Jesus cast out those who bought and sold in the temple.1…
Malcolm Horlock
Devotional
A Man of Prudence
Less than ten months since Nehemiah heard of the conditions in Jerusalem, the monumental task was finished. The building and repairs, completed in the sixth calendar month, Elul, took only fifty-two day…
Tom Merriman
Nehemiah
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The Mount of Healing, 15. 29–39
Introduction In Matthew chapter 15 verse 29, the setting is described in general terms as a mountain near the Sea of Galilee. The parallel account, however, provides greater precision, locating this vis…
Frank Proudlock
Mountain Scenes of Matthew’s Gospel
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The Nostrils of God
Introduction ‘The glory of his nostrils is terrible’ is the dramatic - if somewhat unusual - description of a horse in Job chapter 39 verse 20. If you have been surprised when stood next to a horse as i…
Steve Buckeridge
Anthropomorphisms
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Question Time – Is It Advisable To Use Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) for Bible Study and in Christian Ministries?
QUESTION Is it advisable to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for Bible study and in Christian ministries?1 ANSWER Generative Al (referred to here simply as GenAI) is a form of artificial i…
Frank Proudlock
Question Time
The Twelve Apostles (2026)
Are the twelve disciples those whom we would have picked to start the greatest commission ever given to human endeavour? Would we have been prepared to invest three years’ effort into such an unusual gr…
Steve Buckeridge
Diversity
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Walk in the Spirit and Be Filled With the Spirit
In our previous studies, we have been thinking about who the Holy Spirit is, and titles given to this person of the Godhead. In this article our focus turns to the teaching of the Apostle Paul as he exh…
Tim Coltman
The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
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