Colin Standish

THE preacher is earnest, the sermon stirring, the congregation increasingly involved in the challenge of the message presented. Skillfully and deliberately the speaker's words are channeled to the personal needs of his hearers. An appeal…

CONVERSION CAN never be explained completely, for conversion is a supernatural act of God transforming the individual into the unfolding image of God.

In fact, as conversion involves not only simple behavior but also those processes…

THE MINISTRY of reconciliation takes many forms. It is a ministry of love, a ministry of courage, a ministry of exaltation, and a ministry of encouragement; but in contemporary Christianity it is perhaps the ministry of reproof that has been…

WHATEVER became of sin? Since 1973 when Karl Menninger's book raised this question, there has been a noticeable shift in emphasis of the role played by both clergymen and the church in the treatment of the mentally ill and the maintenance…

THE TIME SPAN from Creation to the present continues to be an issue of concern to some Seventh-day Adventist scholars. There are those who hold rigidly to a 6,000 year approximation; others are prepared to concede an extra one or two thousand…

FOR many decades most basic methods employed by psychiatrists and clinical psychologists have been established upon the assumption that major causes of mental illness have close connections with the disturbed person's ineffective social adjustments.…

OVER THE past two decades counseling has grown into a mam moth multi-million-dollar industry. Increasing numbers of men and women are assuming the role of counselors to the untold multitudes who are suffering from one kind of mental problem…

FAR TOO frequently today the pastor is faced with domestic and marital problems within his congregation. At the base of every strong church program is the security and stability of the home, and to the extent to which homes are unstable,…

SOME years ago an Australian university professor, representing a large student Christian Society, addressed a gathering of students. After having denied the person of God, and having spent much time in debunking the Scriptures, the professor…

IN WHAT proved to be his last chapel talk, Melvin Eckenroth, the late chair man of the theology department of Columbia Union College, bared his heart before the students, reflecting upon the fact that the young men of his generation…

In a room devoid of furnishings, twelve persons engage in an en counter workshop. The age of the participants varies from early adolescence to the aged. For several days they concentrate on discovery and uninhibited expression of…

As recently as the early twentieth century it was confidently predicted that universal education could solve such major societal problems of the world as poverty, crime, and insanity. Perhaps nothing did more to stimulate the thrust…