Colin Standish
Colin Standish, Ph.D., is dean of the college, Weimar Institute, Weimar, California.
Altar Calls--The Aftermath
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 is made for decisions and rededications. Many, if not most, of the congregation signify their response to the appeal by standing. . .
Psychological Processes In Conversion
CONVERSION CAN never be explained completely, for conversion is a supernatural act of God transforming the individual into the unfolding image of God. . .
The Ministry of Reproof
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 the most neglected aspect. . .
Sin, Stress, and Sanity
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 of mental health. . .
6,000 Years?
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 years, maintaining that the important issue is the fact of fiat Creation; there are still others who, at least privately, have been prepared to concede the possibility of considerably longer periods of time. . .
A Christian Approach to Mental Health
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. . .
The Pastor and Postmarital Counseling
The base of every marital breakup is a spiritual problem.
What Is True Relevancy for Youth?
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 was confronted by a student who declared that as an atheist, he could agree almost entirely with what had been said by the professor.