Dwight K. Nelson

Dwight K. Nelson, D.Min., is the senior pastor of the Andrews University Church, Berrien Springs, Michigan.

Articles by Dwight K. Nelson

“Leave her alone!”

August 2020

The story came out of the New York Times. “On March 1, while Lele was holding her 11-month-old daughter, her husband began to beat her with a high chair. She is not sure how many times he hit her. Eventually, she says, one of her…

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A daily petition to God

June 2018

Last August, a young man at the British Columbia camp meeting, where I was preaching, gave me a book. I had never seen the book before, nor had I heard of the author—but the man told me there were more than 600,000 copies of the book circulating…

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Extraordinary Asking

February 2012

The Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards observed, “When God has something very great to accomplish for his church, it is his will that there should precede it the extraordinary prayers of his people.”1 Edwards was, no doubt, reflecting…

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Projecting the impact of NET '98

September 1998

Alfred C. McClure interviews Dwight K. Nelson, speaker for NET '98 the largest evangelistic event ever undertaken by a Christian church. It will be broadcast via satellite to as many as five thousand downlink sites…

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A tryst with Thomas

March 1998

If I had walked into that room late Sunday night, I'd have reacted in the same way. All he had done was step out---just for a few moments. Who could blame him, after spending that entire fearful day sequestered in…

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The 10/40 window of the West: Out of light and into darkness

March 2003

It was night. Two men under a street lamp were searching for a watch one of them had lost. Down on their hands and knees, they searched the pavement all around the light pole.

"Are you sure you dropped it…

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Requiem and resurrection for a fallen brother

May 2004

Could there be anything in this life more glorious than a resurrection from the dead? The Reuters news agency carried the story, dateline: Managua, Nicaragua. Cesar Aguilera, 58 years old, was missing from his home…

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