Perspective Haunting Your Own House First, a disclaimer, acknowledging that many believers feel Christian writers shouldn’t speak of ghosts, or tell ghost stories, unless they are Holy Ghost stories — which happens be the intent of this article. Nevertheless, if this doesn’t work ou... Read more Appreciate the Pastor When the elders hid my Bible with its sermon notes, I should have known this Sabbath would be different. They didn’t want me to preach that day. What was happening? Pastoral Appreciation Sabbath. Read more Little We like big things. Big names, big paychecks, big promises. But the little things, often overlooked, are really what matter. Read more Meetings I arrived a day later than I was scheduled for a book signing at the ABC booth during the NAD Pastoral Convention in Austin, Texas, this summer. For the uninitiated, the ABC is the Adventist Book Center — seller of my literary works. NAD stands fo... Read more Assessing the Session Delegates to the 60th General Conference Session in San Antonio, Texas, in July elected a global leadership team, updated church policies and clarified doctrinal statements. In the minds of many, though, the main agenda item was ordination of wome... Read more New From Pacific Press Editor's Note: Periodically the Gleaner will feature reviews or summaries of recently published books from the Pacific Press Publishing Association. Following are the third set of featured books in the series. Read more Tongues of Fire This year the powerful planners of camp meeting called upon me to teach a class on the Holy Spirit. This subject fascinates me as a former Adventist preacher’s kid, turned Pentecostal, turned Adventist pastor. My background creates morbid fascinat... Read more After the Ordination Vote, What Now? By the time you read this, the General Conference Session in San Antonio will be history, and world church delegates will have voted on perhaps the most explosive Adventist issue of our lifetime. I’m referring, of course, to the ordination of wome... Read more Fermata “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.” — Mark Twain Read more Saving Adventist Education in the 21st Century Throughout the North Pacific Union, church schools and academies reopen their doors next month to serve our children and teens. But what about next year? Read more Learning the Language I took German in high school, instead of Spanish, because I thought it would be funny. After all, saying “ambulancia” (“ambulance” in Spanish) is nowhere near as stimulating as crying out “krankenwagen!” A lot of other students had the same idea, ... Read more Best Imagine if you will a portrait of Paradise, with a white cottage in the midst of a green garden. A young boy plays outside in the sunshine. He is wearing pajamas. Read more Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Current page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Haunting Your Own House First, a disclaimer, acknowledging that many believers feel Christian writers shouldn’t speak of ghosts, or tell ghost stories, unless they are Holy Ghost stories — which happens be the intent of this article. Nevertheless, if this doesn’t work ou... Read more
Appreciate the Pastor When the elders hid my Bible with its sermon notes, I should have known this Sabbath would be different. They didn’t want me to preach that day. What was happening? Pastoral Appreciation Sabbath. Read more
Little We like big things. Big names, big paychecks, big promises. But the little things, often overlooked, are really what matter. Read more
Meetings I arrived a day later than I was scheduled for a book signing at the ABC booth during the NAD Pastoral Convention in Austin, Texas, this summer. For the uninitiated, the ABC is the Adventist Book Center — seller of my literary works. NAD stands fo... Read more
Assessing the Session Delegates to the 60th General Conference Session in San Antonio, Texas, in July elected a global leadership team, updated church policies and clarified doctrinal statements. In the minds of many, though, the main agenda item was ordination of wome... Read more
New From Pacific Press Editor's Note: Periodically the Gleaner will feature reviews or summaries of recently published books from the Pacific Press Publishing Association. Following are the third set of featured books in the series. Read more
Tongues of Fire This year the powerful planners of camp meeting called upon me to teach a class on the Holy Spirit. This subject fascinates me as a former Adventist preacher’s kid, turned Pentecostal, turned Adventist pastor. My background creates morbid fascinat... Read more
After the Ordination Vote, What Now? By the time you read this, the General Conference Session in San Antonio will be history, and world church delegates will have voted on perhaps the most explosive Adventist issue of our lifetime. I’m referring, of course, to the ordination of wome... Read more
Fermata “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.” — Mark Twain Read more
Saving Adventist Education in the 21st Century Throughout the North Pacific Union, church schools and academies reopen their doors next month to serve our children and teens. But what about next year? Read more
Learning the Language I took German in high school, instead of Spanish, because I thought it would be funny. After all, saying “ambulancia” (“ambulance” in Spanish) is nowhere near as stimulating as crying out “krankenwagen!” A lot of other students had the same idea, ... Read more
Best Imagine if you will a portrait of Paradise, with a white cottage in the midst of a green garden. A young boy plays outside in the sunshine. He is wearing pajamas. Read more
