Clifford Owusu-Gyamfi
Clifford Owusu-Gyamfi, PhD, is the pastor of the Geneva International Seventh-day Adventist Church in Switzerland.
Articles by Clifford Owusu-Gyamfi
Rethinking community in the Adventist Church
June 2023
The Christian church, since its inception, has long been characterized as a community of believers. Many members meet to discuss their faith, while others find the church to be a family to which they belong. Without a doubt, the church community…
Accepting the Evolution Challenge
January 1941
The theory of evolution presents a challenge to every Seventh-day Adventist. This challenge is especially forceful to anyone teaching in the biological field, inasmuch as evolution is continually presented in text and reference material.…
What About Natural Selection?
July 1943
Because Darwin propounded the idea that natural selection was the principle agent in the evolution of living things, many have drawn the conclusion that natural selection does not exist in reality, but only in the imaginations…
The Positive Aspects of Creationism
May 1944
Seventh-Day Adventists stand almost alone in their adherence to literal creation and its concomitant principle of a flood of waters that destroyed the original earth. Anyone who wishes to inform himself as to…
Positive Aspects of Creationism (Concluded)
June 1944
Last month we learned that the theory of evolution might be divided into three parts—cosmic, geological, and biological. The geological phase was considered first, and we come now to the biological aspect.
Volutionism assumes…
Fact and Theory in Modern Geology
October 1946
The creationist who faces the problem of the popular geological theory must choose one of three alternatives: (I) to shut his eyes to the problem, ignore it, and thereby assure himself a degree of comfortable…
Evolution's Challenge to S.D.A.'s
July 1947
The theory of evolution offers a challenge to every Adventist minister and evangelist. To ignore it is impossible; to evade its challenge is out of the question. How can we meet it? This question is highly important.…
The Geological Problem
May 1958
In practically every instance, when a person who believes in evolution is confronted with the evidences for creation, as far as plants and animals are concerned, he will reply, "But what are you going to do with…
The Question of Species and Variation
April 1958
Opponents of the literal rendering of the Genesis record base their opposition on two main points: (1) the problem of species and (2) the record of the rocks. In this study we shall consider the first of these.
1.…
The Scientific Apostasy
March 1958
In the previous study we discussed the doctrine of creation as taught in the Bible. Now we must consider how the Christian world departed from the plain truth of a literal creation.
1. What…
The Biblical Doctrine of Creation
February 1958
[Prof. Harold Willard Clark has had a long and distinguished service as head of the Biology Department of Pacific Union College, Angwin, California, which position he has held for thirty-five years, from 1922…
Avoiding the preaching temptation of egotism
August 2009
One of the most dangerous temptations for a pastor comes from the pulpit itself. You may plan to communicate a biblical message; but somehow you end up being the center of attention in the sermon. Most likely, you did not plan it that way,…
Pastoral fatigue--you can live with it
April 2006
You have been a successful pastor. In the years you have been in ministry, you have done everything possible to make your church the ideal one. You have spent several hours a day in preparing for the Sabbath sermon,…
Down from the pulpit
June 2008
After I had finished preaching, a woman of about 35 approached me and confessed, with tears, that she had been committing sexual sin. After all these years, after all the sermons that she had heard me preach, she…
Meeting the Evolution Problem
August 1937
Certain pulpit addresses and magazine articles on the subject of evolution lead me to make a few comments on methods that may well be employed or avoided in meeting this great problem. I hope I may be allowed,…
The Advent Movement and Darwin
October 1935
The early part of the nineteenth century was conspicuously a theological age in England and America. Religious beliefs were sharply defined, and had changed little since the Reformation. Personal salvation was the keynote…