The following article is taken from Principles and Proverbs by Brother Islip Collyer. It is to be found as chapter 7 in Part 1 of the book entitled Principles.
Of all Scriptural principles, this may seem the simplest. Almost any brother or sister could expound it, could exhibit the beauty of the ap…
It is increasingly obvious that our community can so easily lose sight of its relationship with Christ as “head of the body” and, lacking commitment to Christ, drift into a self-orientated attention to many other temporal things. So the second of these articles emphasises the importance of the t…
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When God gathers out of the Gentiles a people for His Name, in most circumstances He provides an ecclesial environment within which the new converts can grow and contribute to the wellbeing of others. For those of us who have the benefits of ecclesial life, we should pause and thank God for the stim…
Two days before Christ’s crucifixion, all the wisdom and power of Almighty God was on show in Jerusalem. On that day, Jesus magnified his Father as he overthrew the wicked plans of the nation’s leaders who came to destroy him. We read of this in Matthew 22.
First, the Pharisees questioned him…
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The dawn of life on this earth was accompanied by the echoes of immortal voices united in a song of universal praise. It was the first praise of the new world: when “the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy”.
Immortal Praise
When the colourful history of the pla…
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During just four days in June, we will read through the Epistle of James. In this powerful exhortation on practical issues in the life of a true saint, James demonstrates that the motivating power of a believer’s life is faith. It provides the means of victory in every problem, enabling the believ…
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Brother Paul Billington is Editor of the widely read Bible Magazine and will be well known to many readers of The Lampstand. He has written this article from Israel at the time of the recent political elections. From this advantageous position, he comments upon the purely secular nature of politics …
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They were the best scholars of the day. They read their Scriptures meticulously. They had memorized large portions of it. They had discussed and debated it at length. But when Jesus Christ came, his repeated challenge to the Scribes and Pharisees was, “Have ye not read?” The Scribes and Pharisee…
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This article has been specially prepared by Brother Leen Ritmeyer and presents a graphic and visionary contrast between Jerusalem today and Jerusalem in the Kingdom Age. The “Jerusalem today” story is presented in the left hand column and is based upon an actual tour conducted by Brother Leen in…
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We often hear familiar words as we bring to mind the sacrifice provided for us; as we acknowledge once again that the salvation we hope for is made possible only by the mercy and grace of the living God. “But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.” Th…
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