Roland R. Hegstad
Roland R. Hegstad is the editor of Perspective Digest, and a former editor of Liberty.
How to Revive the Adventist Home
WHAT is the condition of the Adventist home that we should speak of its revival?
Charismatic Countdown
A professional man in your church comes to you and says he has been attending meetings of a charismatic group. He likes the warmth of the fellowship and wonders why Adventists, who emphasize the gift of prophecy, are strangely silent on tongues. If we have been blessed by one gift would we not be doubly blessed by two?
Mind Manipulators
IN RECENT times the world has witnessed instance after instance of mind manipulation, most notably in the staged trials of political prisoners. What it has not been aware of, however, is the degree to which more subtle forms of mind manipulation are affecting millions of people. Modern communications bring the world into our living rooms daily; techniques of propaganda and salesmanship have been refined; there is scarcely any hiding place from the constant visual and verbal assault on the mind. . .
Mystic Tongues Are Speaking (Concluded)
Devils working miracles are speaking to Christendom today with new and compelling power: signs, wonders, healings, and tongues, experienced by participants in the charismatic movement and claimed to be of God, may be utter fraud. The neo-Pentecostal movement, which has sprung so quickly to prominence, crossing all denominational and social barriers, poses serious questions for the Adventist ministry.
Mystic Tongues Are Speaking (Part II)
In Part I the author made the first of four observations concerning neo-Pentecostalism: The charismatic movement owes its growth to churches that have failed and are failing their people. . .
Mystic Tongues Are Speaking (Part I)
I WANT to talk to you about the charismatic movement or neo-Pentecostalism, as it is also called. A movement that is bringing the so-called baptism of the Holy Spirit with all its concomitants, speaking in tongues and healings into the main line Protestant churches and Catholicism. "Charismatic," of course, stems from the Greek charisma., and refers to gifts of extraordinary power given a Christian by the Holy Spirit and for the good of the church. There are four reasons why I believe the charismatic movement deserves our attention:
Down the road to a Christian republic
Roland Hegstad takes a look at the Christian Voice, a new evangelical-political movement, and raises questions about its possible place in the scenario described in Revelation 13 and 17.