Walter R. L. Scragg

There are two fields of service for the home-base evangelist. These two fields are the country and the city. One differs from the other in many respects; and paying close attention to these differences will help an evangelist…

The Influence of the Spirit of Prophecy on Evangelistic Preaching

MELVIN K. ECKENROTH Assistant Professor of Practical Theology, S.D.A. Theological Seminary PART I

The Spirit of prophecy was decades in advance of the times…

The Preacher was wise. . . . The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words" (Eccl. 12:9, 10, R.V.).

This is your hour!

Days of preparation are ended. Careful study com­pleted. The Holy Spirit's unc­tion…

1. Planning the Broadcast

There is a temptation to think that be­cause there is no opportunity to use our large professional and denominational pro­grams, we should do nothing about being on the air. Remember that every…

ACROSS North America more than six  thousand radio and television stations daily fill the airwaves with sound. Sym­phony and cacophony, harmony and de­liberate discord, voices that tell truth and lies, and shouts and whispers that battle…

SUCCESS achieved in the public campaigns organ­ized to follow-up Voice of Prophecy and Faith for Today broadcasts as well as local broadcasters led delegates at the quadrennial session of the Radio-Television De­partment to pledge themselves…

STEPPING through the foam of the shore-break on the beach at Kovalam in South India, I looked to my right and saw about a hundred men struggling with something in the surf. What was it? Divided into two groups, they were hauling in an extremely…

IN MY own personal, non-Gallup, nonscientific survey of the public's knowledge of the Seventh-day Adventist Church I think I've discovered the winners in the "what-I-know-about- Seventh-day Adventists" question. John Q. Public knows about…

"I have become everything in turn to men of every sort, so that in one way or another I may save some" (1 Cor. 9:22, N.E.B.).*

EVERY so often I arm myself with the strong sword of the promises Cod gives, a fat billfold, and a secret…

MINNEAPOLIS, San Francisco, Cleveland, Detroit, Atlantic City, Vienna. Vienna? A strange name in the roster of General Conference sessions! And yet for hundreds of thousands of Seventh-day Adventists an exciting new departure in denominational…

FORTRESS ADVENTISM seems to be withstanding the assaults from the secular city rather well. Our schools are protecting larger numbers of youth than ever before. Our churches bulge toward second services. Our colleges and seminaries fashion…

MY FIRST appointment in the ministry was with the team of a leading evangelist in the city of Melbourne, Australia. I was to replace a young worker who had accepted a call to India. In my hands I found more than three hundred names…

WORDS are the building blocks of communication. A structure of thought, blueprinted in beauty or ugliness, utilitarian or ornamented, transfers itself from one mind to another through the use of words.

Words link the world…

It isn't often that the liberal critics from the left of Biblical scholarship comfort and support the conservative right. Yet the Anglican cleric John A. T. Robinson, whose popular book Honest to God scandalized the religious world…

If you want an interesting exercise in church dynamics, take a large map of your city and plot the daily paths of your congregation. Put a large, X where your church is located, pins where your families and individual members reside, and…

It's a problem as old as the hieroglyph graffiti on Egyptian monuments, yet as new as a videocassette, and it keeps getting worse. The problem is this: How can you inform all those people out there, keep them united on a common goal, reassure…

Time had worn deep ruts of exposition across the passage that I had chosen for my Sabbath sermon at Newbold College. Yet the conviction had settled that the parable of the prodigal son should be the topic.

The decision itself…