April 1989 Issue

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Rex D. Edwards

Having much to do relieves, in part, the frustration of not knowing what to say.

Who are(n't) we baptizing?

Roger Dudley, Bruce Wrenn, Slimen Saliba

Market research can help us understand where the church is succeeding and failing in its work of preaching the gospel.

Market research can help us understand where the church is succeeding and failing in its work of preaching the gospel.

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The Adventist pastor and the ordination of women

Arthur N. Patrick

An Australian Seventh-day Adventist gives his perspectives on a matter that has worldwide significance.

An Australian Seventh-day Adventist gives his perspectives on a matter that has worldwide significance.

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Sometimes you should drop the load

Anonymous

What do you do when your spouse is in the wrong and the church members are asking you to straighten him or her out?

What do you do when your spouse is in the wrong and the church members are asking you to straighten him or her out?

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Natural remedies and health-care assistance

Albert S. Whiting

On Health and Religion

On Health and Religion

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God's New Envoys: A Bold Strategy for Penetrating "Closed Countries"

James Zachary

Having worked in Asia for nearly 20 years, I have been challenged and encouraged by this book. One is pushed toward discouragement when recognizing that the Christian church is faced with the responsibility of reaching 860 million Muslims, 656 million Hindus, hundreds…

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A Right Conception of Sin

Robert M. Wagley

Every now and then we come across a book that, it appears, providence has placed in our hands as it warms and quickens our hearts with its message. This is such a book. Taylor is both cognitive and pragmatic in his assertive approach to the fallacies of the inroads…

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Letters to the Editor

Leaves a bad taste in my mouthThe article on the trademark matter("General Conference Trademark Policy," December 1988) leaves me with abad taste in my mouth and some seriousquestions about the integrity and visionof the writers.The matter of assuming control ofgeneric…

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More from this issue:

Gary Patterson, H.M.S. Richards

This interview, conducted in the spring of 1979, reveals Richards' thinking on evangelism and preaching.

W. Floyd Bresee

In a cartoon a secretary is answering the church phone. Someone wants to talk with the pastor, but she replies, "Can he call you back? He's listening to a tape of his sermon." Meanwhile behind her, in the midst of his listening, the pastor has fallen sound asleep! If the preacher has become tired of his or her own preaching, there's an awfully good chance that the congregation has too. Perhaps it has become more a bur den than a blessing to them both. One day… Continue reading...

Lyndon K. McDowell

In the first paragraph the authors of The Battle for the Mind make their readers aware of their objectives in writing the volume. In this book they examine modern Seventh-day Adventist exorcists and compare them with others in the church's history and with Ellen White's warning against such work. It should be read by every Adventist involved in or contemplating exorcism or "deliverance ministry." If the authors had subtitled the book "A Study of Exorcism in the… Continue reading...

Jerry Connell

Campus ministry at a state university or college has its own unique challenges. Both pastors and students can feel intimidated as they contend with hectic schedules, relationships that are sometimes intense, and pressure from their peers. What they need is help. Inter-varsity Press has produced an excellent resource for campus ministry in this volume. It does not discuss a theology of campus ministry, but it does live up to its title of being an "evangelism handbook."… Continue reading...

John B. Youngberg

This book grew out of a pastor's Bible class at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, and became a cassette package with 140,000 copies sold. Dr. Dobson has a profound respect for Scripture and does not try to get around or interpret it away. After dealing with the Old Testament, he surveys the teachings of Jesus. While the caviling Pharisees wanted to know the technical grounds for divorce, Jesus answered the real question: "How can I keep the marriage… Continue reading...

Kevin L. Jenkins

Preaching has been called "the sweetest torture" of ministry. It's a spiritual event that engulfs both preacher and congregation in worship and dialogue with the Creator. But too often preaching can be more torture than sweet. Hicks portrays the darker side of proclamation but in doing so, "confirms the power of preaching in the tempest of church conflict." The author writes with empathy as one who knows what it is to attempt to preach when the church is in the… Continue reading...