Harold Calkins
Harold Calkins is a retired Seventh-day Adventist minister and lives in Loma Linda, California.
Articles by Harold Calkins
The Place of Prayer in Getting Decisions
June 1959
Only the work accomplished with much prayer, will avail in the end."—The Desire of Ages, p. 362. In no other work is this more true than in winning men and women to Jesus Christ. It is only through divine grace that the miracle of…
Pastor
December 1953
A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith" (Acts 6:7) is a partial record of the results of the Spirit-filled apostolic ministry. In the remnant church we expect even greater results under the latter rain. Therefore the quarter…
Are You Satisfied With Your Life?
April 1962
* A sermon given in the Temple City church, Glendale, California.
ARE you satisfied with your life? Paul was not. Romans 7:14 to 25 is the heart cry of a saint. Read it in Moffatt's translation. This is the struggle of everyone attempting…
Empty Pulpits (Part 1)
August 1966
An article in the June 8, 1965, Wall Street Journal, "Empty Pulpits," states: "A severe shortage of clergymen has left almost 69,000 Protestant and Jewish congregations in the United States without a…
Empty Pulpits
September 1966
RECENTLY there has just been concluded a Voice of Youth series, in which thirty young people participated as speakers, plus many others as ushers, singers, and greeters, and in friendship teams. Three of the…
Some Books I Can Recommend
November 1961
Great Personalities of the New Testament, by William Sanford LaSor, Fleming H. Revell Company, Westwood, New Jersey, 1961, 192 pages, $3.00.
As professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary,…
The Value of Vacations
May 1960
"Come ye yourselves apart,... and rest awhile."
One Friday night the youth of our church reminded me of the verse in Mark 6:31, as they discussed how they might use their summer vacation from school. Of course, there…
Give Thyself unto Reading
August 1980
He who does not read has little ad vantage over the man who can not read. A prep-school teacher, with nearly fifty years' experience, when asked about the nature of his work, re plied, "I am a traffic officer. It has been my business…
Secrets of great preachers
January 1986
At 15 years of age George Whitefield (1714-1770), a tavern keeper's son, began to work behind a public bar. When the bar closed he would go upstairs to his room and read his Bible by the light of a stolen candle. So began the devotional life…
Read or trivialize
June 2002
The record of the beginning of Jesus' public ministry reads: "When He had opened the book ..." Books are still a minister's major tools.
Woodsmen used to consider that time spent sharpening their axe and saw…