My dear readers,

1. Feeding the flock of God ... earnestly contending for the faith

For thirty years the Bible-Presbyterian Church was the leading consumer of "Scripture Union" Daily Bible Reading Notes. That was until 1980. In that year, the poison of liberal theology began to appear in the pages of the SU "Daily Bread". Like the serpent in Genesis 3, the writer cast doubt on the Bible record, eg.

a) The six Creation days (Gen 1) were "long periods of time", not 24-hour days.

b) "theforbidden fruit, talking serpent, and flaming sword" of Gen 3 are not to be taken literally.

c) "We cannot be sure the flood covered the globe", implying the Genesis record was unreliable.

The decision to stop subscribing to SU Notes was a "step in faith" which, praise God, has opened up a great new avenue of service for the past 12 years, since 1982. Today 12,000 copies of RPG Daily Bible Reading Notes are helping Christians around the globe, especially in Third World countries, to read God’s Word regularly and meaningfully.

RPG Distinctives:

a) The notes help the user to read through the whole Bible systematically in easy stages.

b) The authors are conservative Bible-believing pastor-teachers of fundamentalist persuasion, with a "high view" of Holy Scripture.

c) The notes are based on the King James Version of the Holy Bible, the Bible of the Reformation, most loved and trustworthy, and a bulwark in the path of the ecumenical union.

d) RPG notes have a strong devotional (and evangelistic) flavour to help the reader "grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" (2Pet 3:18).

e) RPG notes will also help the reader to take a stand for the Word of God, and to "earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3).

We must settle in our minds that the Word of God must certainly be true, absolutely infallible, and beyond all questions.

2. Using God's Word Every Day

By Miss Carol Lee

Psalm 119:105 ("Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path") is a familiar and well memorized verse. Indeed, we must use the Word of God on a daily basis to direct us as we sojourn on earth, to guide us in all that we say and do. Thank God that He did not leave His people to grope in the dark. We are grateful that God has given us His Word to be our "lamp" and "light." Are we using this "lamp" and "light" every day, every moment of every day?

Many in our midst are using the Read Pray and Grow (RPG), a Daily Bible Reading Guide, to help them in their daily reading of God’s Word. We are thankful to God for this publication which is helping many to spend time with God: for some, every morning; for others, every night. There are also those who use the RPG as materials for their nightly family devotion. How wonderful to see father gathering everyone in the home (servants and house guests included) nightly to READ a portion of God’s Word and the RPG reading for that day, and to PRAY before they retire for the night. Surely, our Lord will be pleased to help the family to GROW spiritually.

How did the RPG Daily Bible Reading Guide come about? For many years, right up to the early 1980s, our churches were using the Daily Bread (published by Scripture Union) as our daily Bible reading guide. Unfortunately, Dr SH Tow detected "poison" in the Daily Bread. How can the sheep be fed "poison"? But if not Daily Bread, then what? The Lord laid it in the heart of Dr Tow to produce an alternative daily Bible reading guide. So in 1982, he "began this RPG ministry to give God’s people a doctrinally sound Daily Bible Reading Guide, faithful to the Word of God and free from the poisonous leaven of liberalism, ecumenism, Romanism, and other godless ‘isms.’" (Source: Inside Cover of RPG August 1987.) The maiden issue of RPG rolled out in January 1982 as a monthly booklet. What does it mean for Dr Tow to start this RPG ministry? It meant that for the first two years (1982 and 1983), he laboured to write the RPG readings, with older brother Rev Dr Timothy Tow helping with seven months’ of readings.

RPG, as we know it today in 2014, is a quarterly issue and has grown to include the Junior RPG and the Teenz RPG, with their own teams of writers, editors, proof-readers, cover designers, etc. The Senior RPG is also translated into five languages: Chinese, Bahasa Indonesia, Swahili, Myanmar and Vietnamese. In addition, this Daily Bible Reading Guide is also available for reading online and for downloading onto mobile phones and tablets. The Lord has extended the RPG readership beyond our shores, almost into any corner of the world. Anyone can be helped to read God’s Word daily.

These RPG daily Bible reading guides costs many man-hours to produce, but they are freely available today to aid God’s people in their reading of God’s Word every day for their spiritual good and growth. Are you setting aside time daily to read God’s Word? No? Why not? God’s Word is "a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path" (Ps 119:105). Grope no more in the dark. Begin today, and let RPG help you to read God’s Word daily. Psalm 63:1: "O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee…" No effort is spared to help you read God’s Word daily. Will you spare no effort to daily read God’s Word? May God help you. Amen. – End of article

God bless all readers.

Yours faithfully in the Saviour’s Service,

Dr SH Tow, Sr Pastor