James Dean once starred in a film entitled Rebel without a Cause and became an icon of rebellious youth. That title could well have described the prophet Jonah, who was told by God to go and preach ag…
‘I don’t think that infanticide (the killing of infants) is always
unjustifiable. I don’t think it is plausible to think that there is
any moral change that occurs during the journey down the
birth ca…
Proverbs 6.27
Surely no one would be so daft as to pick up a handful of burning
coals from the embers of a fire and place them on one’s chest. To do
such a thing would be to invite severe burns and po…
Proverb 26.14
The sluggard in the Bible is a tragic-comic character, one who is
lazy to the point of ridicule and full of excuses, many of them
feeble. ‘I can’t plough today because it is too cold. I …
Proverb 25.21-22
‘Heaping coals of fire’ upon an opponent’s head has become a
proverbial expression in English and remains in common use
even today. The thought behind the proverb is that if we repay
…
Proverbs 15 v1
The natural thing to do when someone is angry with
you is to reply in anger: yet how often we regret the
words once they are out of our mouths.The tongue,
despite being such a small par…
Proverbs 31. 30
The NIV translates the first part of this proverb as, ‘Charm is deceptive
and beauty is fleeting’. ‘Beauty is only skin-deep’ may be the wisdom of
the world, but it confirms what God s…
No one, other than the proud himself, likes a proud person. God likes the proud least of all. One of the seven things that are an abomination to God is ‘a proud look’, Prov. 6. 17. This is because pri…
Perhaps you, like many others, have little time for the Lord Jesus. Some deny He is the Son of God, saying He was deluded in many of His claims, especially when He said, ‘I am the way … no man cometh …
Countless numbers of Christians down through the millennia of time have struggled with doubt. ‘Am I really saved?’ they ask. ‘Is it possible for us to be completely sure that God has saved us?’ ‘How c…
Assurance of Salvation –
‘once saved, always saved’ One of the legs on the ‘chair of assurance of salvation’ (YPS vol 5
number 3) was the one that reminded us we have to prove the
reality of our profe…
On January 11th 1956, five days after her husband had been killed, a
widow wrote home to her parents, ‘I want you to know that your prayers
are being answered moment by moment as regards me – I am eve…
The term ‘capital punishment’ refers to the legal execution of a person by the government or state. Most western countries have abolished capital punishment on what they term as humanitarian grounds a…
Declaring God’s Authority
The Lord’s Prayer, which begins with
an introduction that reminds us of
the relationship we can have with the
One to whom we are praying, finishes
with a conclusion that remi…
‘That’s not fair!’ is an expression we expect to hear from little children, but is surprisingly often heard from adults as well.Mankind seems to have a standard of behaviour by which it judges whether…
Of all the attributes that God possesses,
the things that make Him who He is,
which would you think was His most
glorious? His omnipotence, perhaps,
being able to do anything, or His
omniscience, in t…
Everything we see and know around us had a beginning. It was either conceived, germinated or made. Once it was not and now it is, and there will probably come a time when it will not be any longer. Ou…
The word ‘euthanasia’ means ‘dying well’. When referred to these days, it usually refers to the grounds upon which others should be permitted to speed up or ease the death of another person. Following…
This issue of Young Precious Seed brings us to the end of its sixth year. It was first introduced in 2003 and its aim was to deal with issues that young believers face, subjects upon which we all shou…
Meet Master Know-it-all
He and his wife always know best. They sail along through life supreme in the knowledge that they have it all sussed. No-one else has their experience, their knowledge, their u…
Meet Mr Short-fuse
He seems to be a very angry sort of man and one who can fly off the handle at any moment and for no obvious reason. Now it is not sinful to be angry. ‘Be ye angry and sin not’ means…
You have probably met him and his sister, before now. They are always cynical and sarcastic. They never accept things at their face value; there is always some hidden agenda for them. Whatever anyone …
What should the Christian’s attitude to gambling be,
especially as the United Kingdom is facing the
biggest shake-up in gambling laws it has ever seen, and
the result of these changes will soon be obv…
That the first three petitions of this prayer have in mind God’s concerns
teaches us that the things of God
should always have priority with us,
even in our own prayers. ‘Seek ye first
the kingdom of …
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