Articles
New Men for a New Decade
"Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do" (1 Cor. 16:10).
T. C. for Children Too!
WE ARE more than halfway through the Testimony Countdown program in the Macksville and Kempsey churches in New South Wales, Australia, and the blessings are growing each week. A large percentage of our members have attended regularly and have brought their ideas to the discussion periods provided each evening of the program.
I Had Dreamed--But!
FOR years I had stifled the urge to do public evangelism with the excuse that denominational administrators and office workers possessed neither the time nor the aptitudes for the rigor of evangelism. Since college days, as a business student, I was moved by the challenges of evangelistic campaigns. . .
Real Maturity
In our quest for togetherness it is well that we check again the Ephesian formula for—"real maturity. . ."
Revival in Oakland
The months of July, August, and September were memorable ones for the Seventh-day Adventist church in Oakland, California. For five nights a week and three times each Sabbath, an evangelistic crusade conducted by the Bay Area Seventh-day Adventist ministers was held in the Oak land Municipal Auditorium. The immediate sponsor of this campaign was the Northern California Conference under the direction of Elder James Chase. They invited E. E. Cleveland of the General Conference Ministerial Association to be the speaker. . .
Adventist Women in Purdah?
Australian women might as well be in purdah, secluded, in the tradition of the East, from all social contact except with their husbands. They are the most uninteresting women outside the Arab world, the most intellectually unstimulating . . . ," according to a recent visitor from overseas. . .
Women of East Brazil Organize Large Shepherdess Club
A recent letter from Mrs. W. J. Streithorst of Brazil gave interesting details of their Shepherdess Club organized at the beginning of 1970. Workers' wives and other women employees of the six fields and five institutions make up its membership. . .
Presenting the Full Gospel
Those persons who have felt the touch of the divine love are obligated to bring to those who have it not a knowledge of that love and God's exalted purpose for man. . .
A Simple Filing System
THERE are many filing systems ministers use and one must find one that will adapt to his method of doing things. Most systems require more time to keep up than the average minister has. . .
On Illistrating the Sermon
THERE are about as many ways of preaching as there are preachers. Nevertheless, there are certain excellences and, unfortunately, certain shortcomings that recur and point the way to failure or success as a preacher. For the purpose of this discussion I shall think of preaching in terms of either the pastoral or evangelistic sermon. For the most part the principles involved apply to both.