Warren H. Johns

Many times we hear the expressions: "He is a real success," or, "He has been most successful." What is a successful pastorate? By what standards do men measure success? What does God say in His Word about success?

A minister's success,…

SURPRISING as it may seem, the majority of the geologists in early nineteenth-century England were advocates of the Biblical account of Creation and the Flood, thus earning them the title of "Scriptural geologists." Some had even switched…

THE OTHER DAY as I browsed through a nearby religious bookstore, my attention was caught by the statement published on the cover of the best seller, The Late Great Planet Earth, by Hal Lindsey. It stated that there had been…

IN  1696,  the  successor  to  Sir  Isaac Newton's  chair, William Whiston,  published  the  novel  theory  that  the Noachian Flood was caused by the passing  of  a  comet  extremely  close  to  the earth.  In  1755 the philosopher,…

JAMES HUTTON, the Scottish geologist, stood before the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1785 and proclaimed: "But if the succession of worlds is established in the system of nature, it is in vain to look for any thing higher in the…

ABRAHAM GOTTLOB WERNER, a most influential and persuasive geologist at the end of the eighteenth century, postulated that volcanic activity was the result of the burning of coal beds and melting of the nearby rocks. This conclusion…

FIVE YEARS before the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755, John Wesley preached a sermon entitled "The Cause and Cure of Earthquakes." Excerpts from his sermon give this vivid description of the June 7, 1692, earthquake that destroyed…

The rise of modern geological studies at the beginning of the nineteenth century indelibly altered our approach to the opening chapters of Genesis. As the earth's crust was first probed in earnest, man discovered a much more complex and extensive…

The way we perceive God, the way we look at the world around us, and the way we understand our own selves all have their roots in the opening verse of Scripture: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen. 1:1). Theology,…

" We confess that this Word of God was not sent nor delivered by the will of man, but that holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, as the apostle Peter saith. And that afterwards God, from a special care which He has…

Twentieth-century science has exploded two myths about the camel, the one physiological and the other archeological. The physiological myth, held for ages, has been that the camel's secret of desert survival lies in its ability to store large…

The first day of August, 1919, soon became the hot, muggy, greenhouse-style day, typical of Washington, D.C. The city had slipped into a comfortable calm after exploding fireworks had signaled the end of World War I some nine months earlier.…

The year was 1887; the date, October 8. The yellows, oranges, and reds of the hickories, maples, and sumacs were at the height of their fall beauty when an article rolled off the presses of the Michigan Christian Advocate that must…

A boy who appears to be 10 or 12 years of age is sprawled out on the rug in front of the fireplace. His father, after a hard day at the office, is relaxing on the sofa while soaking up the warmth of the fire. His mother is reading to the…

Anniversaries and birthdays are meaningful only to the ones experiencing them. Holidays and memorial days hold significance only to those who are intimately connected with the celebrated events or to those who are the descendants of the ones…

The May, 1983, issue of MINISTRY contained an editorial that responded to recent allegations in regard to theological dissension within the Seventh-day Adventist Church. At the end of the editorial we promised our readership that future articles…

Scholars have offered a greater variety of opinion upon the date for Creation than for any other single event in sacred history. Robert Young in his Analytical Concordance (p. 210) lists thirty-seven suggested dates for Creation, but he states…

The propagandized postulates of Charles Robert Darwin call to I mind the lyrics of a song from the twentieth-century Broadway hit musical Porgy and Bess: "It Ain't Necessarily So." A growing number of academics assess…

Evolutionary theory probably has as many different varieties as Heinz has products! Today the two major types of evolutionary thought are "phyletic gradualism'' and "punctuated equilibrium. '' The basic difference is whether evolution…

The attempt to explain supernatural phenomena exclusively on the basis of natural events is nothing new. The supernatural endowment of the gift of tongues at Pentecost was attributed by skeptic onlookers to the imbibing of too much alcohol…