Rollin Shoemaker
Rollin Shoemaker, D.Min., S.T.M., is a pastor with the Southern New England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, South Lancaster, Massachusetts, United States.
Articles by Rollin Shoemaker
Lincoln's Battle with God
March 2014
Stephen Mansfield’s Lincoln’s Battle With God is divided into five chapters,followed by an epilogue titled“Purposes of the Almighty,” and closeswith “Thoughts on Lincoln, Religion,and Sources,” plus an appendix and aselected bibliography.
The Book That Changed the World: The Story of the King James Version
August 2013
The Book That Changed the World outlines the importance of the King James Version (KJV) in American history, the English language, and its influence throughout the English-speaking…
Christianity’s Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution—A History From the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First
September 2012
What is Protestantism? A set of ideas? The result of historical events? No more than a reaction to the medieval Catholic Church? Does Protestantism have core beliefs? Is Protestantism a single or multifaceted phenomenon? Alister McGrath…
Galatians
April 2012
This commentary is number 9 in the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series. This series of New Testament (NT) commentaries is directed toward students and pastors who have studied NT Greek and want some grammatical and…
Pastors and Visiting Evangelists
April 1947
City-wide evangelism involves the united efforts of the visiting evangelistic company, the entire resident church membership and its pastor, and the conference administration. Each one is dependent on the other,…
Galatians: A Fiery Response to a Struggling Church
November 2011
Carl P. Cosaert’s book, which serves as a companion piece to the fourth quarter 2011 Adult Bible Study Guide, is divided into 14 chapters in which he attempts to address various theological issues as they arise in Galatians. He begins…
The "Unveiling" of Jesus Christ
September 1948
The accompanying outline contains what I feel to be the true spiritual and prophetic contents of Christ's Post-Ascension Gospel. In it the Lord Jesus Himself unfolded His eternal glory and the triumph of His redeemed…
Evangelistic Techniques in Britain
May 1959
The writer has recently had the privilege of conducting city-wide campaigns in two of Britains largest cities, Birmingham and Manchester. We thought the readers of THE MINISTRY and our fellow…
"Go Even Unto Bethlehem"
December 1962
The Christmas season is a time when a special opportunity is presented for bestowing gifts on those to whom they will bring genuine pleasure; a time of peace and good will; a time when our thoughts are directed…
Progress at the New Gallery Centre, London, England
October 1961
DURING the seven years of its existence our London evangelistic center, with its unique position at the cross-roads of the world, has been instrumental in raising up a large central church of some 500 members. At the same time it has added…
The Significance of Baptism
October 1961
ONE of the fundamental beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, held in common with other conservative Christian faiths, is that of baptism by immersion. We consider baptism to be one of the ordinances of the Christian church and a…
The Pastor as Theologian: The Formation of Today's Ministry in the Light of Contemporary Human Sciences, 2nd ed.
March 2009
Wesley Carr writes in the preface that the theme of the book is “the way that the practice of ministry generates theological insight” (ix). He considers the pastor as the theologian. The introduction lays the framework within which he writes…
Reading about the Trinity: A List for Additional Research
February 2009
Bauckham, Richard. The Theology of the Book of Revelation. New Testament Theology. Edited by James D. G. Dunn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Bauckham points out that Revelation has the same fundamental…
Hope for a lost world: a study of Romans 5:12-21
March 2007
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12 For this reason, just as sin by means of one person entered into the world, and death through sin, and thus death passed unto all men, because all have sinned. 13 For until the…