W.B. Quigley

Appearances or Realities?

G. CUPERTINO Associate Secretary, Ministerial Association Southern European Division

Among the many valuable lessons contained /\ in the history of ancient Israel is one * *- that should be very…

The two great challenges that face the ministry today are (1) the challenge of the unfinished world task, and (2) the challenge of our slumbering congregations. These two phases of our work are embraced by the term evangelism in its broadest sense.…

This is the third in the series of articles on the return of Jesus. The first article raised the question of whether today's Adventism still possesses the sense of imminence that characterized Millerism and the Adventism of the nineteenth…

This is the second in a series of three articles examining the significance and implications of Seventh-day Adventism 's belief in a soon-coming Saviour. The first, which appeared in April, pointed out that the mainspring of historic…

Imminence, meaning a characteristic of that which is likely to happen without delay, has always been the dominant thrust of Adventism—not just the belief that Jesus will come "one day," but rather that He will come almost immediately, that…

The Bible instructor, Trudy Long, answered the telephone. After listening attentively for a few minutes, she asked, "You mean he accidentally shot himself?" In the conversation that followed, this patient Christian worker empathized with…

"Fantastic!" was the way a certain pastor described one of the most unusual outreach programs ever to be conceived by a church group! He was referring to MINISTRY'S current two-phase program of (1) sharing the magazine with more than 271,000…

On the evening of March 4, 1982, the emcee of TV's popular "Family Feud" program posed to the contestant this question: "What is the most boring place you go to?" Her ready answer? "Church." And it turned out to be the number one answer,…

God has placed within the fabulous, computerlike mechanism of man's brain certain great capacities by which we receive salvation. Without these mental processes we cannot be reached by the loving solicitude even of a saving God. With them…

How would you answer the question "What factors will be most influential in giving absolute priority ... to total evangelism?"

A pastor, responding to a questionnaire regarding the Thousand Days of Reaping challenge, wrote a very…

The church of Jesus Christ is not an end in itself. It does not exist to grow rich or popular or to function only for its members. It does not even exist to preserve its own existence, but contrarywise, to give itself away in tireless sacrifice…

Typhoon Ruping had left the day hot, humid, and overcast Emotions were a mixture of anticipation, apprehension, and I excitement. Final plans for the opening of the Good News Total \Health Expo '82 in Manila's twelve-thousand-seat Rizal 'Memorial…

On January 30, 1984, the One Thousand Days of Reaping program of the world church reached its midpoint and looked ahead to the final 500 days! Assuming that you are reading this April issue on April 15, 576 of the one thousand days will have…

During January and February, 1 984, Pastor David Anderson, of the Fredericksburg, Virginia, church, and I united in an evangelistic series, using the "Good News for Today" multimedia program of color slide/sound presentations. Based on our…