Praban Saputro

Praban Saputro, Ph.D., is assistant professor of world mission at the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies IAIIASI, Silang, Cavite, Philippines

Articles by Praban Saputro

The Call to the Ministry

August 1929

The Need.—" What the church needs in these days of peril, is an army of workers who, like Paul, have educated themselves for usefulness, who have a deep experience in the things of God, and who are filled…

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Presenting Jesus to Muslims: a suggested approach

July 2004

Various approaches on how to share the gospel with Muslims have been suggested. The most current one is an attempt to understand the worldview of Muslims and then express the truth of the gospel in forms and terms…

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Confirming the Foundations

January 1930

A Serious Call to Study

The hour approaches when our every position prophetic, historic, and doctrinal — will be searched through and through by the enemies of truth. The world's scholarship will be turned…

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Meaning of "Breath" and "Soul"

April 1937

In 1 Kings 17:17, 22, we find the expressions, "There was no breath left in him," and "The soul of the child came into him again, and he revived." Kindly give an effectual explanation for believers in immortality, and also give the Hebrew…

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Restoring the Breach

October 1933

Repairing the breach is the keynote of Isaiah's prophecy, as indeed it has been of all the holy prophets since the world began. Isaiah is called the prophet of hope; for accom­panying all predictions of judgment or disaster…

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"The Dew of Herbs"

August 1937

What is the meaning and force of the pas­sage in Isaiah 26:19, which reads: "Thy dew is as the dew of herbs"?

The full text reads: "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye…

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Church Clinics Successful

July 1938

We are told that medical missionary work is the pioneer work of the gospel. And truly the present is a most oppor­tune time for the "right arm" to open the door for the gospel ministry.

"The purest example of unselfishness is to be…

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Keys to the Old Testament

October 1934

By W.R. French

The Pentateuch is the foundation division of the Bible. When read with this thought in mind, the superstructure is better understood. In the first chapter of Genesis…

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Medical Missions in Northern Rhodesia

September 1938

After more than twenty years' absence I was again sent to Musofu Mission near the Congo border, Northern Rhodesia, Central Africa. It was my medical experience that won friends in the old pioneer days, and I find that…

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Free Radio Time

October 1938

Since most time on the air is rather expensive, it is quite important for our workers who have limited budgets to give study to methods of securing what is called "free time." This is time for broadcasting that is available without financial…

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Gibbon's July 27, 1299, Date Sustained

February 1933

A few years ago a search was made at the Library of Congress for evidence support­ing Gibbon's date, July 27, 1299, for the first invasion of Othman into Nicomedia. Failure to verify this date has thrown into more or…

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"The Two Anointed Ones"

March 1933

The title of this study is found in Zechariah 4:14. This verse is the culmination of a wonderfully encouraging prophecy which God had given to Zerubbabel through his prophet Zechariah. Who are these two anointed ones?…

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