Arnold Kurtz

HERE are some rules for a proper approach. First, do not begin by announcing all your differences. Dale Car­negie teaches us that. "In talk­ing with people, don't begin by discussing all the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing—and…

IN THE story of the Transfiguration the climaxing sentence reads, "And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only." Those two words, "Jesus only," provide the answer. Those two words are symbolic of the…

* A talk given at a ministers and doctors' retreat.

IMPORTANT as it is that we have a correct and pure theology, it seems to me just as important that as a people we excel in what we might call "peopleology." What really is more important,…

In the history of public evangelism as carried on by this movement, there has never been any question as to the vital importance of an attractive, comfortable, well-located meeting place in calling out the people.

Here in the West…

WHEN CHARLES Grandison Finney left his law office in 1821 to devote his life to the gospel ministry he inaugurated a new era in American revivalism. Not only did he develop new techniques for promoting conversions and a new style for pulpit…

ONE of the harbingers of the approaching winter that October evening in Pittsburgh in 1955 was a sermon preached in a crowded church. For the fortieth and last time Clarence E. Macartney was to preach his most famous sermon, "Come Before…

THE great British preacher Charles H. Spurgeon once referred to America's Henry Ward Beecher as the Shakespeare of the nineteenth-century pulpit. ¹ Doubtless the encomium was in recognition not merely of the rich variety of his…

"SEEING IS BELIEVING" is being revised to read, "Sensing is believing." Psychologists have determined that real events experienced in vivid sensory impressions act to create attitudes and influence conduct through the laws of learning—for…

Generally speaking, ministers move too frequently. Recently the American Lutheran Church, a denomination of approximately 3 million members and 4,200 active pastors, had 1,200 address changes among its clergy and 950 actual position changes…

Ministry is inevitably a series of painful decisions, often in the form of choices between the good of the institutional church and the need or comfort of the individual. Further, these choices are frequently the no-win variety between the…

FOR A good part of the first half of this century Harry Emerson Fosdick was regarded by many as the most important popular figure in the Protestant pulpit. His theology was controversial—to the point that some warned: he "is no…