August 1988 Issue

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Do Sports belong in SDA Schools?

David C. Nieman

Are Ellen White's counsels regarding sports anachronistic? Were her statements principles or applications?

Are Ellen White's counsels regarding sports anachronistic? Were her statements principles or applications?

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Treatment of the erring

Ellen G. White

How should we deal with the faults of others? Too often correction is absent or counterproductive. The counsel given in this article is as necessary today as when it was first written in 1888. It is published here for the first time.

How should we deal with the faults of others? Too often correction is absent or counterproductive. The counsel given in this article is as necessary today as when it was first written in 1888. It is published here for the first time.

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What ministers' wives want

Ellen Bresee

A worldwide survey reveals the felt needs of pastors' wives.

A worldwide survey reveals the felt needs of pastors' wives.

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What is the most difficult position in the church?

J. David Newman

A piece of doggerel says this concerning leaders: People's faults are many, but leaders have only two: everything they say and everything they do. Being a leader has never been easy even in the best of times. I would like to argue that the local conference president…

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Women in ministry

W. Floyd Bresee

The Commission on the Role of Women recently brought to Washington, D. C., some 80 men and women from around the world principally to discuss the ordination of women to the gospel ministry. Twenty-two papers had been sent to, and hopefully studied by, each member of…

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Reflexology: healing, harmless, or hazardous?

Elvin E. Adams

On Health and Religion

On Health and Religion

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Letters to the Editor

Calling sin by its right nameIn her article "Chemical DependencyAmong Adventists" (April 1988) KathyLewis quotes a statement about the intemperate from The Ministry of Healing:"With these self-indulgence is not onlya moral sin, but a physical disease" (p.172). Then…

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Chad McComas

Jay E. Adams, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, 1986, 120 pages, $5.95, paper.

Ron du Preez

Christopher J. H. Wright, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois, 1983, 224 pages, $8.95, paper.

Dennis Smith

G. Edwin Bontrager and Nathan D. Showalter, Herald Press, Scottsdale, Pennsylvania, 1986, Teacher's Manual, 247 pages, $14.95; Student's Book, 96 pages, $5.95, paper.

Wayne Willey

Earl E. Shelp and Ronald H. Sutherland, editors, Pilgrim Press, New York, 1985, 184 pages, $9.95, paper.

Steve Willsey

Sammy Tippit, Moody Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1987, 113 pages, $5.95, paper.

Ella M. Rydzewski

Roger L Dudley, Pacific Press, Boise, Idaho, 1986, 77 pages, $5.95, paper.