Richard Hammill
Richard Hammill, Ph.D., served as a vice-president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists prior to his retirement. He now writes from Olympia, Washington.
Articles by Richard Hammill
Preaching Through Translators
July 1946
Sometimes it is necessary for missionaries and those who are visiting our overseas divisions to preach through the medium of translators. After a new recruit arrives in the mission field, it requires a lengthy study of the native language…
The Birth of Revival
October 1956
A revival and reformation is greatly needed in our churches. We all agree to that. The problem of how to bring about this revival is one upon which many of our ministers and leaders have been thinking and studying. Recently two incidents…
The Name of God
May 1956
The Temple of Solomon had two central pillars. On one was inscribed the name Jachin ("he shall establish") and on the other Boaz ("in it is strength") (1 Kings 7:21). From these two great pillars Christ possibly drew the…
Life's Greatest Blessing
August 1963
One of the loveliest of the Psalms is the thirty-second, in which David sets forth what to him seemed to be life's greatest blessing. "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord…
Primary Anti-Sabbatarian Texts: A Discussion of Walter Martin's Comments Relative to the Sabbath and the Lord's Day—Concluded
December 1960
Romans 13: 8-10
In a discussion of this passage the author under review says, "... in the present passage the Holy Spirit twice declares that love fulfills the law. They [Seventh-day Adventists] cannot exempt the Sabbath from this…
"The Sabbath or the Lord's Day?": A Discussion of Walter Martin's Comments Relative to the Sabbath and the Lord's Day—Part 2
October 1960
This section of Mr. Martin's book begins as follows: "Seventh-day Adventists from the beginning have always attempted to equate the Sabbath with the Lord's Day. Their principal method for accomplishing this is arguments against their position,…
A Discussion of Walter Martin's Comments Relative to the Sabbath and the Lord's Day - Part 1
September 1960
IN HIS book The Truth About Seventh-day Adventism Walter R. Martin attempts to show that the teachings of the Seventh-day Adventist Church concerning the binding obligation upon Christians to observe the seventh-day Sabbath are…
Accreditation for the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary
August 1970
FOR approximately 25 years the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary has been an associate member of the American Association of Theological Schools. We have never applied for full membership in this association, because fully accredited…
Spiritual gifts in the church today
July 1982
The catholic or universal Church ... is the spouse, the body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all . . . Unto this catholic visible Church Christ hath given the ministry, oracles, and ordinances of God, for the gathering and perfecting…