Wayne Willey

Reviewed by Wayne Willey, pastor, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Bentonville, Arkansas.

Articles by Wayne Willey

"Be ye therefore perfect"

March 1979

Spiritual frustration, discouragement, and despair have their beginnings in the great disparity between what we know we ought to be and what we really are. The greatest struggle in the Christian life is the attempt to reconcile the perceived…

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Church Discipline and the Courts

September 1988

In the past few years several churches have become targets of lawsuits. This book focuses upon the implications of one such lawsuit in Oklahoma, in which the plaintiff was awarded $390,000 for being "defamed" when her church published its…

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The Pastor as Prophet

August 1988

This book of essays is an attempt to call pastors back to theology, rather than the behavioral sciences, as the primary basis for pastoral care. The editors claim that "in the process of integrating the insights of the behavioral sciences…

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Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

May 1988

I found this to be a most disturbing book--one that provoked a strong visceral reaction as I read it. Although this is a book on enjoying the Christian life, I found little joy in reading it.

As one reads the book, it seems that Piper's…

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The True Image: Christ as the Origin and Destiny of Man

June 1991

Hughes begins with the premise that "the doctrine of man (anthropology) can be truly apprehended only in the light of the doctrine of Christ (christology)." He presents Christ as the "true image in which man was formed at creation and into…

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