B. Russell Holt

It was January, 1928. Calvin Coolidge sat silently in the White House, and Prohibition lay uneasily across the land. AI Capone roamed the streets of Chicago; people were still talking about Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic…

Previous articles in this series have examined several doctrines and characteristics that distinguish authentic, historic Christianity from the cults that have sprung up in recent times. This concluding article will deal with a…

A non-Adventist reader of MINISTRY recently wrote us this letter: "We appreciated having the local Seventh-day Adventist clergyman in our area ministerial association until he moved. We have missed his successor being with us. After all,…

Mark Twain once said, "Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me, I always noticed that the passages in Scripture which troubled me most are those which I do understand."

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My wife, a labor and delivery nurse in a local hospital, tells me that in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, where MINISTRY is published, abortions routinely outnumber live births each year. (The score for 1977 was 12,718…

Recently I attended the annual meeting of the Adventist Chaplains Association, hosted this year by Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Shawnee Mission, Kansas. (It sounds like a log-cabin dispensary on an Indian reservation, but actually it is…

Have you read the latest best seller from the evangelical religious press? The one everyone is talking about—Was Blind But Now I See?

The publisher's promotional piece says, "Follow the odysseys of Paul, a liberal theologian…

April 4 has been designated by the 1980 Annual Council as the beginning date for a concerted prayer effort in Seventh-day Adventist churches around the world. Pastors and preachers everywhere are being asked to present to their congregations…

Would you turn off your television set for a whole month if someone offered you $500 to do so? Don't be so quick to say Yes. When the Detroit Free Press made that exact offer recently to 120 families in their reading area, 93 turned it down…

Beginning with the copy in your hand and continuing for some months, MINISTRY will be carrying a series of articles titled" This We Believe," dealing with the verities of our Christian faith as we, the editors, see them. (See page 16.)

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One of the most significant issues to come out of the recent national elections in the United States (and one that, in our opinion, will not rapidly fade away) is the proper role of political-action groups composed of evangelical Christians.…

The hour comes in every reformatory movement when, with its founding fathers all sleeping in their graves, and a new generation of leaders in responsibility facing new and unprecedented conditions, it must review its founding purpose and…

If you ever get to thinking that your church would roll over and die without your constant ministerial intervention, consider the 400-member Southview Southern Baptist church of Lincoln, Nebraska.

When Southview's pastor left in…

I went to the San Diego Congress on the Bible in March very uneasy about the word "inerrancy." The congress had been billed as a gathering of those who want to "understand and experience the trans forming power of God's inerrant, authoritative…

Pastor A rarely attends Sabbath school. He is rarely able to do so. He serves a district of three churches—two small congregations and one larger one. While Sabbath school is in progress in the larger church, Pastor A is preaching in…

Applauded by more than two thou sand religious broadcasters at their fortieth annual convention in Washington, D.C., Ronald Reagan challenged America to "face the future with the Bible." A couple of days later, at the National Prayer Breakfast,…

As the sun rises around the world on April 3, hundreds, probably thousands, of special services will celebrate the grand theme of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Later in the day pulpits every where will sound forth the wonderful news as…

Not so many years ago most people accepted what the mayor said or the explanations of their boss. They believed nearly everything they read in the newspaper, and they certainly didn't question the positions put forth by their pastor.

Those…

The lingering effects of a remark my wife had made a few days earlier must have still been rankling somewhere down in the subconscious convolutions of my thinking. "You're so dogmatic," she accused. "You're always right, and no one else's…

I no longer make New Year's resolutions. I made hundreds, but no more. Quite a few were stillborn; hardly any survived the end of January. I have tried to determine why my resolutions failed so consistently. I believe the following are some…

When I was in college and seminary, most of my professors seemed to assume that I would spend my life pastoring a church of 600 talented, eager-to-serve members. After I graduated and became a pastor, most of the programs coming to me from…

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