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Hearing, Seeing, And Believing In The Gospel Of John, Craig R. Koester

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Guess Who's Coming To Worship? Worship And Evangelism, Patrick R. Keifert

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Too many congregations of mainline churches profess that they welcome strangers but are inhospitable when the stranger comes to worship. They know that worship is the single most important ingredient in why people join and remain active members in a congregation. They realize that they need to welcome strangers, so they try to be a warm, open family. Some of them believe they have achieved this model, but few do achieve it. The key to turning this situation around lies in the congregation’s attitude toward the stranger. This is especially true of the attitude of those who plan and lead …

The Origin And Significance Of The Flight To Pella Tradition, Craig R. Koester

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Book Review Of Creation And Blessing: A Guide To The Study And Exposition Of The Book Of Genesis, By Allen P. Ross, Jacques R. Doukhan

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Book Review Of Faith & Reason: Searching For A Rational Faith, By Ronald H. Nash, Fernando L. Canale

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Book Review Of Selected Studies On Prophetic Interpretation, By William H. Shea, Richard M. Davidson

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Priestly Mediator And Judge, C. Mervyn Maxwell

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Creating A Shared History: Serial Narratives In The Young Woman's Journal, 1889-1894, Sherry Baker

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"Creating a Shared History: Serial Narratives in The Young Woman's Journal, 1889-1894" is a cultural press history and textual analysis of contemporary indigenous serial literature in a nineteenth-century Mormon young women's periodical. It tests press historian Catherine Covert's assertions that some of the functions of the press are (1) to be a conservator of values, and (2) to engender harmony and affiliation among community members. The investigator places the Journal within the historical/ cultural context from which it was written, and identifies specific messages in the serial narratives that encouraged the preservation of Mormon values and Mormon community affiliation. The …

What Is The 1888 Message?, C. Mervyn Maxwell

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The Theology Of Sexuality In The Beginning: Genesis 3, Richard M. Davidson

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The Theology Of Sexuality In The Beginning: Genesis 1-2, Richard M. Davidson

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Angry Love, Miroslav Kis

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The question of God’s wrath is an old thorny problem for Christian theology. Simply expressed, one wonders how can a loving God be angry when anger is associated with a loss of temper, and a loss of self-control, and love is expressed in forbearance, patience, and graciousness. Can love be angry?

Yet, the scriptures speak often about an angry God (Nehemiah 1:6; Mark 3:5; and John 2:13-17).

Some treated this problem as only a human metaphor. Others as a pedagogical tool. Cultural anthropologists saw in it a vestige of primitive fear of taboos.

Lactantius claims that God is slow to …

What Is The 1888 Message?, C. Mervyn Maxwell

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Assurance In The Judgment: How I Lost My Fear Of Heaven's Courtroom, Richard M. Davidson

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A Markan Epiphany: Lessons From Mark 1, Donald Juel, Patrick R. Keifert

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Interpreting and preaching on these Markan texts in the Epiphany Season requires attention to a series of contexts, including the narrative setting provided for these separate units and the congregational setting within which they will be interpreted. The interpretive task would seem to be to get at the promise in these epiphany texts while taking seriously the particularity of the good news and the specific setting in which the lives of hearers are planted.

Thoughts On A Sda Theology Of Ordination, Miroslav Kis

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Reaping The Harvest, P. Gerard Damsteegt

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The reaping of the harvest through baptism is a highlight in the life of God's church. When the new Christian confirms his spiritual marriage to the Lord in baptism, we witness the outcome of a long, painstaking process wherein humans, as coworkers with God, have unselfishly worked to gain the victory over the devil. At the moment of reaping, we rejoice, exclaiming, "It was worth all the effort!"

Ministry, Management, And The Ecumenical Movement, Gary M. Simpson

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The ecumenical movement in contemporary America should not be surprised to find itself in a quandary of questions regarding the "ministry” of the gospel. From the first decades following the ascension of Jesus until the present the whole complex of emerging questions of ministry have been intimately bound up with society-wide crises of authority. While it is nearly impossible to sort out the myriad questions regarding ministry that have arisen in the American context, one factor in particular has and, if left unchecked, will continue to subvert the ministry of the gospel: a society-wide managerial mode of authority. It has …

A Public Ministry By All The Baptized?, Patrick R. Keifert

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Any discussion of the ministry of the baptized eventually reaches a point where someone asks, “If all the baptized are ministers, then why and how do we distinguish between the ministry of clergy and laity?” One promising answer begins, “The clergy have a public ministry....” The unspoken half of that answer, seldom said, but powerfully lived out in contemporary capitalistic cultures is, “The laity’s ministry is private.” This response constricts the scope of the gospel and plays into the contemporary gulf between the public and private dimensions of our lives.

An Ecumenical Horizon For "Canon Within A Canon"?, Patrick R. Keifert

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The Parish As A Confessing Community, Gary M. Simpson

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Divine Judgments Warn Of The End, Samuele Bacchiocchi

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Is Christ's Coming Near?, Samuele Bacchiocchi

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Book Review Of Deliverance In The Psalms: Messages Of Hope For Today, By Hans K. Larondelle, Richard M. Davidson

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Book Review Of Who Said Life Is Fair?: Job And The Problem Of Evil, By Jerry A. Gladson, Jacques R. Doukhan

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Teaching Ethics: Why Is It Important? How Should It Be Done?, Miroslav Kis

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Ethics concerns every aspect of human life. This, logically, issues out of the Biblical view of the unity of human nature. Education, while compartmentalized didactically for the purpose of specialization, cannot be complete unless some interdisciplinary and essentially human needs are met as well. Seventh-day Adventist graduates in colleges Should not be only excellent nurses, skillful secretaries, money-making businessmen but also outstanding Christians within their vocation. The world does not need to see how one can be a Christian within the church building or setting. Rather, what difference does it make to see a Christian physician as com­pared to a …

Eastward To Eden: The Nauvoo Rescue Missions, Richard E. Bennett

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I have felt sensibly there was a good deal of suffering among the saints in Nauvoo, as there has been amongst us, but the Lord God who has fed us all the day long, has his care still over us and when the saints are chastened enough, it will cease. I have ever believed the Lord would suffer a general massacre of this people by a mob. If ten thousand men were to come against us, and no other way was open for our deliverance, the earth would swallow them up (Journal History, 27 Sept. 1846). These were the words …

Modern Dogma And Liturgical Renewal, Patrick R. Keifert

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Was The Crystal Ball Cracked: Time Is Shattering Hal Lindsey's Predictions, Samuele Bacchiocchi

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Hal Lindsey's Prophetic Puzzle: Fact Or Fiction, Samuele Bacchiocchi

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