This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 127:1 'Except Jehovah keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.' "John Norman (Jack) MacLeod (1926-2002) was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland who served as Moderator of the General Assembly 1983/84. His parents had emigrated from the Isle of Lewis to America in the early 1920s and John was born in Detroit, Michigan in 192...

This Week's Focus Passage: Philippians 2:25-30 'But I counted in necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother.' We, once again, consult "The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia," Grand Rapids, Mich. 1947, with a query: who was this man named Epaphroditus? "EPAPHRODITUS, (Epaphroditus,"lovely"): Mentioned only in Phil. 2:25; 4:18. The name corresponds to the...

This Week's Focus Passage: Philippians 2:12 'Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.' This text is just one of the texts that Arminians and 'free-willers' are swift to raise up before others, as a proof of their position with regard to a synchronic means of salvation; that is, to say, that salvation is a 'joint venture' between both God and the sinner. Or,...

This Week's Focus Passage: 1 Kings 17:1 'And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead.' In his "International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia," James Orr, M.A., D.D., General Editor, published by Eerdmans, 1947, in volume II, we may read an article on the prophet, Elijah, pp.930-933, about this enigmatic person and prophet. The author of this particular a...