March 1989 Issue

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J.R. Spangler

More than 2,800 years ago, Elijah, God's special messenger, labored untiringly for Israel during the great apostasy Ahab and Jezebel instigated. God honored his enormous faith and zeal by taking him to heaven without his tasting death (2 Kings 2:11, 12). Elijah's fearless ministry qualifies him as one of the greatest of the prophets. The last two verses of Malachi 4 contain the Old Testament's final reference to this prophet of fire. Bible students have puzzled… Continue reading...

Managing ministerial stress

Michael G. McBride

While you can't eliminate stress, by using these strategies you can manage it and control its effects. Concluding article in a three-part series.

While you can't eliminate stress, by using these strategies you can manage it and control its effects. Concluding article in a three-part series.

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Should we use professional fund-raisers?

Mel Rees

The difference between a contribution and an offering may make the difference between failure and success in your building program.

The difference between a contribution and an offering may make the difference between failure and success in your building program.

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Does Genesis 2 contradict Genesis 1?

Paul Hou Kang Luo

Even though the Hebrew verbs of verses 18 and 19 are in the same tense, translating them with differing English tenses is justifiable.

Even though the Hebrew verbs of verses 18 and 19 are in the same tense, translating them with differing English tenses is justifiable.

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Making friends in your own church

Laurie S. Herr

Being a pastor's spouse can lead to loneliness. But you can find friends in the churches you serve.

Being a pastor's spouse can lead to loneliness. But you can find friends in the churches you serve.

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Of making books there is no end

Marcia K. Hornok

The Bible includes many things we would rather not know; things that interfere with our com fort, conscience, or complacency. On the other hand, I suspect there are things the Bible should have included but somehow missed. Not to worry. These in dispensable truths…

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Is competition a moral issue?

J. David Newman

The students at the Christian college I attended organized a soccer match with the local village team. When the faculty heard about it, they forbade us to play any team outside the college ever again. That was competition, and competition was forbidden. Five weeks…

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Challenges of the AIDS Epidemic

Harvey A. Elder, Joyce Hopp, John E. Lewis

This article is provided by the Health and Temperance Department of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

This article is provided by the Health and Temperance Department of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

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Christian responses to the New Age movement

Anonymous

A review of various resources on the New Age

A review of various resources on the New Age

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What is the New Age movement?

Kenneth R. Wade

Hope for a better tomorrow is coming from many directions today. Is it a conspiracy? Or is it just wishful thinking?

Hope for a better tomorrow is coming from many directions today. Is it a conspiracy? Or is it just wishful thinking?

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Letters to the Editor

Right on targetThe article by Hal Gates, "Alcoholism: What Pastors Can Do" (November 1988) was tremendous, timely,and right on target. I found considerable validation of my own training andexperience.—DonaldE. Jones, D.P.A.,Gulf Breeze, Florida.The church must teachHow…

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W. Floyd Bresee

All went well until he drew the scalpel across the patient's soft skin and it parted like the Red Sea*

Kenneth R. Wade

To know what a man or woman is really like, you must watch him or her in action. The same is true of God. To really know Him we need to see how He acts and reacts in day-to-day life. That is the beauty of this biography of God. It is no theological treatise, but a seemingly unending stream of factual accounts of God's dealing with people from Arkansas to Zion via Bucharest, Chicago, Dallas, Kiev, Rawalpindi, Siberia, Tokyo, and a hundred other places. You'll… Continue reading...

Sally Streib

As the central theme of their book, David and Jan Congo focus upon the idea that the "power of love" surpasses the "love of power" as a basis for the marriage relationship. The intriguing chapter titles lure the reader into a lively and practical text that gives creative suggestions to enrich the marriage relationship. Checklists provide for evaluation and comparison. Three basic marriage styles are presented and contrasted. The first, called the unhealthy hierarchy,… Continue reading...

Leo Van Dolson

Christian meditation concentrates on the revealed Word of God and includes the full use of the capacity of the mind. It differs from the meditation of Eastern religions in which the attention is on the repetition of a single word and special emphasis is given to one's posture and breathing. A more important difference is that in Eastern meditation people are primarily engaged in a search for their "true selves." But in Christian meditation they are in search of… Continue reading...

Ella M. Rydzewski

The Reincarnation Sensation presents its subject from a mainstream Christian perspective. Spreading out from its original roots in Eastern religion, belief in reincarnation finds fertile soil in Western society among those seeking to transcend a threatened world. Many Westerners claim that their belief in reincarnation is based on hypnotically induced past-life regressions. But the authors point out that those who experience such regressions usually already believe… Continue reading...