COVER ILLUSTRATION: “Christ Washing Peter’s Feet” by Ford Madox Brown.
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1988
The King is Coming
By Donald Rossiter. Excitement was running high as everybody prepared for the king. Somehow word got back to the people that he was returning and everybody began to get ready for the great celebration. … Read more
Renewal: When Church Growth is not Enough
By Harvie M. Conn. Reformation in the church has been reduced to the recovery of proper doctrinal formulations for use by Christians in the church, but no longer is the church at issue with community or society over worldview dimensions … Read more
Worship Workshop: The Challenge of Solidarity
By Joe Reed. As evangelicals enter new relationships with Third World Christians, God through them challenges how we look at the world, shaking both the content and the vocabulary of those relationships. … Read more
And He Gave Some to Be …
By David Mills. In these days of talk about “lay education”, one is tempted to ask the question why? Should we be talking about educating the whole church? If so, how are we to educate them? We need to consider seriously the consequences of embarking on more effective and wide-spread lay education. … Read more
Renewal and Confessional Continuity
By Bill Campbell. This article sets forth two focii as foundations for genuine biblical renewal. First, a clear commitment to a confessional ecclesiology as a basis of security and fellowship in that faith, and secondly, an intensely practical involvement in theological issues that impede renewal. … Read more
An Interview with David Craig
By David Craig. The original vision of the French Canadian Missionary Society, which our church inherited, was to see this mission becoming gradually in its composition, management, and support, purely and exclusively French Canadian. … Read more
The Reformed Church of Quebec/L’Eglise Réformée du Québec
By J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. Although the Presbyterian Church in Canada has supported work in a French Canadian context, nevertheless, the General Assembly did not see fit to second any of our workers who might now already be working within a French Canadian context to the new Reformed Church of Quebec. … Read more
What To Expect From Your New Senior Pastor
Anonymous. 43 rules for driving him out of the ministry or out of his mind … Read more
Josh’s Promise (A Modern Parable of Grace)
By Ivan S. Gamble. A parable illustrating the truth that it is by grace that we have been saved, through faith … Read more
Charismatic Renewal in the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan
By Zeb Bradford Long. Over the last twenty years, there have been four streams of renewal and movements of the Holy Spirit bringing renewal to the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, each with itsr distinctive characteristics but which are deeply interrelated. … Read more
Needed: A Spiritual Revolution
By W. Stanford Reid. Today, we find western society very much in the moral morass which engulfed western society in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. What is needed to bring about social, political, and personal moral renewal is ,the spiritual renewal of the church … Read more
More Than Coping, by Elizabeth Skoglund
Reviewed by Roma E. Bryant. This book helps us to realize that during suffering, we can cope, and that those we think of as giants of the faith still struggled as we do through terrible odds, and still coped. … Read more
Your Work Matters to God, by Doug Sherman and William Hendricks
Reviewed by Jack Charleson. If we start with the certainty that our work matters to God, we will be able to connect what we do all day with what we think matters to God, and we will find meaning in our work and our relationship to God. … Read more
Working the Angles: the Shape of Pastoral Integrity, by Eugene Peterson
Reviewed by David Sherbino. The three pastoral disciplines are a triangle composed of preaching, teaching, and administration. The angles are prayer, Scripture, and spiritual direction. The need of ministry is to “work the angles.” … Read more
The Problem of Preaching, by Donald Macleod
Reviewed by Stephen Self. Preaching is the art of making the preacher and delivering that. The preparation of the speaker is more important than the preparation of the sermon. Six qualities every sermon should have … Read more
Preaching About Life in a Threatening World, by Ronald J. Sider & Michael King
Reviewed by Stephen Self. This book is a practical guide for all preachers interested in preaching more compassionately and effectively on major social issues such as abortion, human rights, economic justice, war, and violence, identifying with people who have inner hurts, needs, and dreams … Read more