Calvin B. Rock

Calvin B. Rock, Ph.D., is a recently retired general vice president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Articles by Calvin B. Rock

The Use of Mass Media in Soul Winning

May 1969

ONE very compact way of viewing our topic is to see it as having three distinct divisions: media, mass, and methods. But before analyzing these aspects of the whole, let's make certain that we have a general working- definition of the subject.…

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The Ministry of Reconciliation

February 1969

THE burden of preaching may be ex pressed in various ways. It is the task of feeding the flock, of building up and edifying the saints, of clarifying and defending the faith, of expanding and extending the kingdom of God on earth, or one…

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New Men for a New Decade

January 1971

"Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do" (1 Cor. 16:10).

During A.D. 51 and 52 the apostle Paul had spent eighteen months of intensive evangelism in metropolitan…

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Black SDA preaching: Balanced and binding or betwixt and between?

September 2000

Black American preaching is an identifiable reality. Its energy and imagery make it unique to gospel proclamation. It's an art form born of faith, rooted in love, driven by hope, shaped in trial, nurtured by pain,…

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Not yet—the Holy Ghost!

March 2002

Our text, John 7:37-39, finds Jesus speaking at the Feast of Tabernacles. On each of the seven days of the feast, the leaders, in commemoration of the 40-year miracle of water provided their foreparents in the wilderness,…

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