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“Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church” (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2005) is a new book written by Don Carson. The Emergent (or Emerging) Church is hardly a dozen years old and already it is has reached a level of considerable importance. Indeed, it is argued that the term is out of date; it has already emerged! […]

“The rights of women, what are they? The right to labour, love and pray, The right to weep, with those that weep, The right to wake when others sleep. The right to dry the falling tear, The right to quell the rising fear, The right to smooth the brow of care And whisper comfort in […]

On a summer’s day in July, 1555 a stake was set up outside the Star Inn, in the county town of Lewes, Sussex. The order had been given – Deryk Carver was to be burned, and his Bible to be burned with him. He was led out to a large barrel surrounded by wood. His […]

From ‘The Eternal Predestination Of God’, a treatise by John Calvin, 1552. The salvation of believers depends upon the eternal election of God for which no cause or reason can be rendered but his own gratuitous good pleasure. God calls [converts], justifies, and glorifies, no one but him whom he had ordained unto eternal life. […]

Comments on Ephesians, chapter 2, taken from the writings of Thomas Goodwin, President of Magdalen College, Oxford 1650. In Ephesians chapter 2, the Apostle having described our lost condition by nature goes on to enumerate the benefits we have in and by Christ. But not sooner does Paul state the first blessing a soul experiences, […]

“So is everyone that is born of the Spirit” (John 3:8) Probably no passage of Scripture has caused more contention than John 3:7, where Christ Jesus said: “Ye must be born again”. An alternative translation is “born from above”. Maybe this helps to clarify the meaning. Nevertheless, the perception, fostered by the media. that there […]

MaozNews News about events in Israel and the ministry in which the Maoz family is involved The Disengagement By the time our readers receive this issue of MaozNews, all or most of the Israeli settlements in Gaza and those designated for evacuation in northern Samaria will have been evacuated. It has been a heart-rending experience […]

On Friday 20th May 2005 a crowd of some 300 Muslims burned a wooden cross outside the American embassy in London. This was part of a protest against the rumoured desecration of a Qur’an by American soldiers in Guantanamo Bay, during which British and American flags were also burned. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of […]

Extracts from WILLIAM GURNALL on Ephesians 6:14 What is here meant by loins that are to be girt with this girdle? Peter will help to interpret Paul: ‘Gird up the loins of your minds’ (1 Pet. 1:13). It is our minds that must wear this girdle of truth, and very fitly may our mind be […]

The structure of the Aberystwyth Conference is unique. After the prayer meetings (which begin at 9.15) are over the crowds numbering 1200 people gather in the Great Hall of the University for the 11.00 main meeting. There is just one preaching session for the whole morning and that is the conference address. Everything hangs on […]

Strange as it may sound I am not a Christian by my own choice and volition. It is generally believed that becoming a Christian is a matter of one’s own choice. A person joins a church, any church, and thereby becomes a Christian. But is the matter as simple as that? Can one join the […]

When I began my service as a U.S. Navy doctor I wanted to do something that would toughen me up and be a worthwhile experience. Little did I know what the Lord had in store for me. United States Marines undergo some of the toughest training in the world, starting with boot camp. But I […]

The Aberystwyth Conference of the Evangelical Movement of Wales always occurs in the second week of August. It is the primary preaching week for the church in Wales and daunting enough for the five men who preach each evening in the lonely centre of the stage of the Great Hall of the University to 1200 […]

Readers of Banner books and magazines will be familiar with Walt Chantry both as an author and as the current editor of the Banner of Truth magazine. Walt has also spoken at the Banner ministers’ conferences in the UK and USA, and the Youth Conference in the UK. On July 18, Walt was diagnosed as […]

We went to the Kijiji township one July morning at 8.45. Kijiji is one of the slums that are dotted across Nairobi and this is medium sized for this vast city where half a million people live; it is about a mile and a half from Trinity Baptist Church. Hannah Ebrahim the 19 year old […]