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Letter to the Editor

We the undersigned were shocked and disappointed to read in the Fall issue, the statement in Donald MacLeod’s report on the 1994 American General Assembly, p. 10, the national organization ‘Presbyterian Women,’ Meeting in Ames, Iowa, a month after Assembly, was dominated by the gay-lesbian lobby in the church.” Shocked, because we were present at this gathering and could not believe that Dr. MacLeod was writing about the same event. … Read more

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Review: Adams, Jay, A Consumer’s Guide to Preaching

Here is a book for your church library. No! It is a book for every worshipper in your church. Put it in their hands, librarians. It is subtitled “How to Get the Most Out of a Sermon.” Preachers expend energy in the preparation of sermons, but did you know that as a listener you must expend energy too? The author, Jay Adams, claims that his book is the only one devoted to genuine concern for preaching from the listener’s point of view. During Sunday lunch have you ever found yourself saying: “I couldn’t get the drift of the sermon” … Read more

Table of Contents

30. Summer 1992

COVER ILLUSTRATION: A scene from the series of engravings on the Book of Job by William Blake (1757-1827) shows Job surrounded by his wife and his three friends. His herds, sons and daughters are gone. Job is covered with sores. Job’s companions “sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was” (Job 2:13). In this issue of Channels several articles and book reviews touch on suffering.

ARTICLES

  • The Human Sexuality Report
  • Ministering to Those with Life-Threatening Diseases – Kenneth Oakes
  • Suffering and the Search for Renewal – Jack Archibald
  • “Beyond Belief” – Roger Judd
  • A Prayer of “Expectancy” – Edward P. Mason
  • Prayer Helps to Keep the Bloom in Marriage – Esther Mcllveen
  • Living Churches: A Hope of Life and Growth – George Anderson
  • Helping the Lonely – W. Stanford Reid
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    REVIEWS

  • Trojan Horse, by Donald L. Faris – Howard Mcllveen
  • Living with Dying, by George Lea Harper, Jr. – Kit Schindell
  • Up Against It, by James Philip – John Vaudry
  • Learning to Worship as a Way of Life, by Graham Kendrick – Nancy Bettridge