September 2004

September 2004

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In this issue:

Editorial: Horizontal humility

A new generation from diverse backgrounds and complex situations challenges the church's traditional way of preaching.

Is the Genesis Creation account literal?

Amid the far-reaching, contemporary shifts occurring in significant Christian circles, what are the implications of dismissing the Genesis Creation epic as a literal account of how the present world order began?

Sexual misconduct in ministry: victims and wounds

The fifth in Ministry's series on ministers and sexual wrongdoing.
By:  Miroslav Kis 

Ministering in the midst of competing worldviews

What remains the same and what changes in ministry as we seek to reach out to a changing world?

The stripping process: broken down for breakthrough

A powerfully honest story of personal growth in ministry: Year of World Evangelism feature

The shape of the emerging church: a pastor's view (part 1)

What form is the church taking as it moves out of the old "givens" and into something new?
By:  Ryan J. Bell 

An enemy defeated: death and resurrection

A fresh, Christocentric view of the twenty-fifth Seventh-day Adventist expression of faith
By:  Richard Rice 

From panic to purpose: the process and benefits of planning a preaching calendar

How to successfully hold a preaching calendar, and how it can and will benefit you.
By:  Derek Morris 

Preaching beyond modernism (part 2)

How must preaching change as many world cultures move into seriously different ways of thinking and viewing the world?

Pastor's Pastor: Non-investigative judgments

Full force vitriol came from the writer's suppositions that I had stolen a sermon outline from him which he had cited from another minister at a seminar he believed I had attended.