Articles
Ministering to one-parent families
Nearly half the children born in the mid-seventies will spend time living in one-parent homes before age 18. Many of these children and their parents will turn to their pastor for help. Are you prepared to do more than apply spiritual and emotional band-aids to their special and long-term needs?
The grace of law
We usually find the terms grace and law in opposing contrast rather than associated together in harmony. In defense of his unusual title, the author says, "The moral law as expressed in the Ten Commandments is as much of grace as is the good news of the gospel, which speaks of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ."
To such belongs the kingdom of heaven
When Jesus spoke these words regarding the children, He surely couldn't have had in mind the youngsters in Pastor Cole's Placid Place Community Church! Or could He?
What Jesus said about Justification
Jesus always accepted those who came to Him. Based on His actions and teachings, acceptance is the key word in the entire theme of justification freely given and grounded in a relationship.
One glorious inheritance
Many Christians are looking for a national reinstatement of an earthly Davidic kingdom in the land of Israel New Testament evidence seems to indicate, however, that Abraham and his believing descendants looked for a heavenly country and city to a new heavens and a new earth.
The fingerprints of God
MINISTRY Editor J. R. Spangler talks with Robert V. Gentry, associate professor of physics, Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, Maryland, about implications of his studies for creationism.
Why we publish creationism articles
Are we overdoing it on the subject of creationism? We don't think so, although some of our readers might. Perhaps an explanation of our stand in this important area will clear up any misunderstandings.
Ancient crematorium discovered?
The strange square building excavated near the Amman airport has puzzled archeologists for several years. The director of a recent excavation shares his interpretation of this unique structure.
Pity poor David?
MINISTRY made a Goliath out of television in its May editorial, says the author, but the humble preacher has something that any advertizer would cheerfully pay for ten times what he pays for prime-time commercials!
The pastor and his pastime
If your philosophy is "better burn out than rust out," and if you have been heard to say, "If Jesus is always on the job, can I do less?" then you had better read this article!