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Looking at the Lord’s Supper

For over 150 years assemblies seeking to follow the simplicity of the New Testament have conducted the Lord’s Supper as an open meeting. This means it was not prearranged, but was open for all the brothers to take part audibly,...

Never Give Up

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before...

War – In Heaven?

The Bible tells us little about the nature and powers of angels, whose functions seem often to dwarf their personality. Yet our Lord’s own words in the Gospels acknowledge distinctly that angels are real, not any mere figure of speech....

Jephthah’s Vow for Victory

The main outline of the story in Judges 10–11 is clear. After the death of the judge Jair, once again the Israelites had turned to idolatry of a most virulent kind. The Lord thus lifted His protective care from them...

APR-MAY 2004 – The Long War – Victory – PDF

The Cause

It was a stalemate. The older sons of Jesse, along with the rest of Saul’s army, had been “dismayed, and greatly afraid” (1 Sam. 17:11) at the brazen boast of the Philistine champion. And little wonder, for Goliath was an...

Salvation!

Salvation as found in the Epistle to the Hebrews is a comprehensive word, meaning more than the salvation of our souls. It does mean that, but there is more. The word is used in the epistle seven times (one of...

The Framing of God’s Word

Hebrews 11 brings before us the subject of the framing of God’s world. The prophet Habakkuk comes to help us as being the source of the quotation in the end of Hebrews 10, “Yet a little while, and He that...

Hebrews 6

Melchizedek having been mentioned in 5:6ff, the writer finds himself somewhat embarrassed to proceed with his exposition because of the state of the believers to whom he writes. He, therefore, breaks off into a parenthesis which occupies the remainder of...