Roy Naden

Roy Naden, Ed.D. {retired) is a professor of religious education at Andrews University. He lives in Bainbridge Island, Washington.

Focus on Living

THE idea of a totally different television approach by the church in Australia was born from urgent necessity about five years ago. It was--and still is--almost impossible to buy prime or semiprime time on any of Australia's major stations. We had seen excellent results from Faith for Today and It Is Written in those areas where the telecasts had been given reasonably good time slots, but increased competition made it extremely difficult to obtain the necessary time slots in all areas. . .

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Preparing your sermon

A sermon, like anything else, is made up of parts. But how can you blend the various parts so that you still have one sermon instead of several separate speeches on unrelated topics? The tenth in our series of twelve articles on preaching suggests construction techniques for building an organized, unified sermon.

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Discovering spiritual gifts

Christians are often not aware of the particular gifts bestowed on them by the Holy Spirit. Now a carefully designed test will help them identify these gifts.

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Changing perceptions of health work

What results came from the Adventist Health System/Sunbelt's first conference on mission? How much agreement was there?

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The Holy Spirit and evangelism

Do we have the will to recognize the Spirit's empowerment of God's people?

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Contemporary manifestations of the prophecy gift

The role of the gift of prophecy in the local congregation

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The Authority Paradox

A biblical view of the source and function of authority in the church

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The nature of Christ: Four measures of a mystery

A review of the Seventh-day Adventist understanding of the divine-human nature of Jesus Christ

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You are gifted

A Christocentric discussion of the sixteenth statement of Seventh-day Adventist faith.

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