Ever wondered
if Jesuits have infiltrated the General Conference? Or why Adventists don’t believe in unity? Should Adventists go to court against other Adventists? And just where does the Adventist Church stand on the issue of homosexuality?
These and many more such questions—101 to be exact— are asked and answered in
101 Questions Adventists Ask,
by Bert. B. Beach and John Graz. Drawing on their collective years of experience in religious liberty work for the General Conference, the authors candidly speak their minds in addressing this sampling from the thousands of questions that deluge the world church headquarters on a daily basis. You won’t always agree, but you will be enlightened as you read the thought-provoking and sometimes surprising answers to
101 Questions Adventists Ask.
Dr. Bert B. Beach is the retired Secretary-General of the International
Religious Liberty Association and director of the Department of Public
Affairs and Religious Liberty of the General Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists. He has taught at schools and colleges in Italy, England, and
the U.S. and has lectured in scores of countries on all continents. Dr. Beach, who speaks and writes fluently in a half dozen languages, is the author of
Bright Candle of Courage.
Dr. John Graz was elected Secretary General of the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA) in 1995, and serves as liaison with the UNO at Geneva and New York. He is also director of the Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Dr. Graz has produced radio and television programs, and has written six books translated in ten languages. He has organized major international meetings in Europe and the World Congress on Religious Liberty in Rio de Janeiro, 1997.
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BY SEARCHING
An autobiography with a difference
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remarkable for its honesty and frankness; the story of one person’s search for God, and her obedience as she found Him.
After the period covered by the book
Isobel
Kuhn joined the China Inland Mission, then she and her husband were with the Lisu tribe in south-west China for twenty years. They left China in 1950 and went to Thailand in 1952 to work among the Lisu there. Cancer took her home for surgery in 1954; her death took place in 1957. When this book was first made available (1957) one reviewer said that it was the freshest, most human and most spiritual piece of autobiography that had been published for many a long day. Subsequent demand has confirmed that it has become a Christian classic of widespread usefulness. This printing brings the number published in this country to 193,000, and the Moody Press has had equally remarkable sales both in America and through their agencies abroad. The book has been translated into ten other languages, and finds acceptance among readers of widely differing backgrounds.
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Praise The Lord!
Born in Georgia
home State of
the Pentecostal
Holiness Church
( for many years
the national headquarters were there). James Beshires early found himself attracted
to that
religion. The Church licensed him to preach at the age of 15.
In this book he describes his experiences in speaking in tongues, healings
other
miracles. Of particular interest are the
glimpses he provides
into the behind-the-scenes action of major healing evangelists.
A once remark by a radio
preacher late one
night
started
James studying the Bible as he had never done before, along lines he had not
questioned previously. Follow him as he reaches
some shattering conclusions, and brings the book
to a
surprise
ending!
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Valley of Shadows
MaryAnn Plett was an up-and-coming real estate agent. Pert and pretty.
“Mr. Cooper” was a shadowy figure who wished to buy a lonely property. He was careful never to be seen by anyone else from the real estate office.
Then there was an abduction, violence, and murder. The clues led nowhere. And the winter
snows covered the evidence.
There were months of agonizing uncertainty to be endured by the family. Jake Plett and his two small sons had no
choice but to go through the “Valley of Shadows." it was a religious odyssey. His account is intense. Moving. Because he is a man of faith, he
has written a deeply Christian book.
And it is highly readable. PIunge in. You’ll be delighted you did.
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REAL LINES FROM REAL LIVES.
“I unlocked the fan room door and Don threw the rotten egg into the whirling ventilator fan
Sound like something you once did? A piece of your own past? Then you won’t have trouble feeling at home with two of the fellows this book talks about. They were people very much like you and me.
“Bud was torn between the ways of his father and his mother. He saw his father drunk more than sober
. . . .
then tragedy struck. Mother died.” Stark circumstances. Repeated in a
thousand homes. Maybe a snapshot of your own personal hell. However.
. .
the “Bud” in the true story found a way out.
“Three years! How can you ask a young couple in love to wait three years?” Good question. Tough question. Maybe a predicament like you will soon
be in. The young man in this little volume faced it—and got a completely satisfying answer.
“For two years I had a tremendous struggle in my heart. I wanted to play—basketball! I spent a high-speed year on a team called the Celtics.” Sounds like he really reached the top, doesn’t it? Well, the fact is, he was only in the foothills. There was much more ahead!
And there is much more ahead for you too. You will find yourself somewhere between these
covers. Sometimes it will be like staring in a
mirror. But we think you will discover something else. You will find out who you can be as well as who you are.
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“IF
GOD LIGHTS THE CANDLE, NONE CAN BLOW IT OUT.”
—
C. H. Spurgeon
In the midst of the shadowy existence of the blind and disabled in Asia, God’s love radiates through assistance and healing, togetherness and gratefulness. Marietta Peitz, a well-known Gernan journalist, has captured some of these rays of light on her trip to CBMI - supported projects in six countries. Her colourful and sensitive report reflects CBMI’s broad spectrum of Christian ministry to the disabled and destitute
throughout Asia.
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Young Christians in Russia
Stories continually coming
out of
Russia indicate a remarkable revival of Christianity among young people, despite more than fifty years of
determined effort by the State to educate children in atheism.
What do these young Christians believe? Why are their numbers growing? What is the quality of their faith, which runs counter to the whole cultural climate in which they have been
conditioned?
Michael Bourdeaux, through the team which he leads at Keston College, the Centre for the Study of Religion and Communism, has gathered a wealth of information about young Christians in Russia today. Katharine Murray, his co—author, is a former researcher at the Centre.
Their book presents a surprising and heartening picture of a church which refuses to die.
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The Glad Game
It was a beautiful, wonderful spring. It was the time for term papers, recitals, and final exams. Then Sue dropped the bomb.
“I want to be a student missinary, Vic, and I think you should be one with me.”
And so it began without much fuss or bother. And neither Vickie nor Sue could have dreamed the interim before it ended.
But even if they had anticipated the potpourri of frustrations and fun, slights and serendipity, losses and laughter, adversity and adventure, they surely would have gone. After all, it was the chance of a lifetime, and they were young and Christian and committed—and
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there was always the glad game to take them through
the worst.
A wonderful book that tells an SM story like it really
‘
was—not all good, not all
. ..
bad, but a stimulating mixture of both.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vickie Hyde Corey was 20 years old when she and her friend Sue lived the Sierra Leone adventures recorded in
The Glad Game.
Upon her return to the United States she resumed her studies at Andrews University and, after her marriage to Craig Corey, at Columbia Union College She was still attending school when she wrote the manuscript, and as far as is known she is the first person to have published a book while still a full-time undergraduate stud ent at the college.
Vickie likes domestic activities such as cooking, talking to children, and making stuffed animals. As a musically inclined person, one of her favorite memories is that of singing ‘A Mighty Fortress” in a Waldensian cave.
She keeps in touch with Sue, now Mrs. Dan Wohlers, because their lives are bound with a kinship that could only be made possible by that wonderful year together, and besides, they like each other.
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African Plenty
Following his return from the mission field, Fred Ramsbottom travelled
extensively in the UK for the Congo
now Zaire) Evangelistic Mission.
He lives in Bedford.
There was only one qualification Fred Ramsbottom could offer when he heard God’s ca)l to a lifetime’s Christian service abroad: simple faith. Yet little did Fred realise how much fruit it would yield to God’s glory. During thirty-six years of pioneering missionary work and church planting in the North Katanga and Kasai provinces of the dense and beautiful Congo, he witnessed constantly the miraculous intervention of God in response to prayer and faith, Beginning at the point where all human efforts failed, Fred saw that God’s power could even raise the dead to life
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African
Plenty presents a thrilling vision of our miracle working God!
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Caring Comes First
Drama, dedication and faith light up the whole of the Leprosy Mission story. Its founder spoke a simple but powerful truth when he exclaimed, ‘This is a work of God’. Its unfolding work of compassion over the last hundred years and more has been a vivid expression of the young Irish missionary’s words.
Beginning when no-one else cared for leprosy sufferers, the Leprosy Mission has never failed to put caring first and at every stage it has led the way in transforming the lives of millions of patients throughout the world.
This warm and enjoyable history of the Mission captures the lively faith and broadening vision that characterises its work to this day.
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Hearts Aflame is a book suffused with love for Chile
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this large, sometimes violent, country and joy at the power of the Gospel taking root. Each chapter is a story in itself, telling of some encounter, episode or friendship that has left its mark
on the author’s life.
Barbara Bazley and her husband work in fellowship with the
South American Missionary Society. They now live in
Santiago, where Cohn Bazley serves as Anglican Bishop of
Chile. Barbara Bazley’s first book
Hidden Gold
was a
bestseller.
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The Fugitive
“That morning of Monday, August 18th, 1948 will never be erased from my memory. I awoke to the sound of sparrows arguing with each other in the guttering.
. . .
It was warm and sunny.
. . .
As I turned the bend in the road, the warmth drained out of me when I saw four tall figures standing outside of my cottage
two were in police uniform, the other two in plain clothes. I felt my heart beating wildly and a sense of panic rising within me.”
For the next nineteen years until his final cross-border flight to freedom, Ladin Popov was destined to be a man on the run. From brutal arrest to a farcical trial. From appalling prison conditions to inhuman physical torture. This was the grotesque trend of events that dominated the dark years of Ladin Popov. Even after his eventual rel ease in the fall of ‘52, freedom remained as far away as the ice of the stars, as Secret Police continued to shadow him from town to town. Ladin at last found rest in the hot Scandinavian summer of 1977 when God whispered his name and said, “Come up hither.”
This is the gripping story of a fugitive—a man who dared to take risks in his running.
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On a dark, deserted street in a crime-infested area of Lima, Peru, David Gates backed away from two armed assailants. His stalled station wagon was filled with more than $70,000 worth of computer equipment, and the thieves wanted it. Out of nowhere a stranger appeared who mysteriously knew every detail of David’s life-threatening situation and single handedly push-started the dead car uphill!
It wasn’t the first time an angel came to the aid of the young mission pilot. Nor would it be the last.
The adventures of David Gates—aviator, nurse, computer specialist, and missionary—prove that there’s no more exciting place on earth than in the will of God. Whether hijacked and imprisoned in a Mexican jail, touching down his airplane on remote jungle airstrips, escaping ambush and certain death in Peruvian alleyways, flying critically ill malaria patients out of the Guyana jungle, or contending with venomous snakes, David and his wife, Becky, experience miracle after miracle in this modern-day story of mission service.
Eileen Lantry’s exciting work allows readers to participate in David’s high calling. An adrenaline-pumping, honest, and sometimes humorous book about a man passionate to follow his Lord wherever He leads,
Mission Pilot
will take you to dangerous and heavenly places where God still needs willing servants with a thirst for adventure.
Eileen E. Lantry is a retired librarian and teacher who has written nearly twenty books and served overseas with her husband for sixteen years. Her previous titles include,
Dark Night, Brilliant Star, Jungle Adventurer, Mission to the Clouds
and
Dark Light.
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FOREWORD
BY C. M. WARD,
President,
Bethany Bible College,
Santa Cruz, California
Dr. Ward, who has been the speaker
on
REVIVALTIME international radio
Broadcast for 20 years, says of this book:
H
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B. Garlock is one of the last of a breed of missionaries who entered Africa and survived by the power of the Spirit alone He has been led in paths where no line of retreat has been kept open You will chuckle as you read..
You will read with amazement and appreciation. You will be proud that God has men like this author.”
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The Motilone Indians lived in a wild jungle area on the border between Venezuela and Columbia. No-one had ever been close enough to learn any of their language, or describe their physical culture. Their only contact with the outside world was with arrows.
Raw, lanky, nineteen-year-old Bruce Olson, turned down by his mission board, knew that God had called him to live with the Motilones. He was totally unprepared though for the years of danger, sickness, rejection and desperate loneliness which followed, until at last he won the confidence of the people, and learned how to bring them the message of Christ without destroying their culture. His faith and his determination to act on behalf of the Motilones against marauding outlaws and settlers make this one of the most remarkable missionary stories of the twentieth century.
a missionary story with a difference
—
hard hitting, utterly convincing in its sincerity.’
Elim Evangel
‘a book that will stab our spirits broad awake.
. .
not a dull page.’
Christian Herald
‘deserves to be read alongside the Acts of the Apostles.’
Floodtide
Bruce Olson has now lived with the Motilone Indians for more than 20 years, and has the backing of the
Columbian government and the United Nations.
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Escape from the Grip
is the dramatic autobiography of a young Rumanian-jewish girl, in whom the spark of freedom will not be extinguished. Judy learns early in life how to survive and preserve her identity under an all-pervading dictatorship. The shadow of the secret police always looms threateningly near her family and their friends. At last, her family find a way to leave the country they had loved.
To a great extent all is triggered by her childhood neighbour, Michael Wurmbrand (son of the legendary Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, fourteen years imprisoned for his faith). Years later, while in Israel, separated from him, Judy decides to accept Christ as the Messiah, and later marries Michael. They now live in the United States.
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What possible good can come out of
a suspended license?
a lost temper?
cancer?
debts?
armed robbery?
No situation can become so tangled or hopeless that God cannot bring something positive out of it. Bonnie Kotter writes of incidents where lives seem to have hit impossible dead ends, where everything seemed ruined or lost, but the individuals let God lead them into new and unexpected opportunities. Their stumbling stones became the building blocks of new lives. As Mrs. Kotter says, life may throw you a curve, but you can make a home run anyway.
The wife of a minister, Mrs. Kotter has been on the editorial staff of the
Lake Union Herald.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
What is it like to be a PK (preacher’s kid)? Worse yet, What is it like to be a PK turned preacher’s wife? The author, who is both, brings out some interesting insights and draws some important spiritual lessons from her experiences. People of all ages will enjoy reading this book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vikki Knoche was born in Pensacola, Florida, the daughter of a minister. She attended Mountain View and Mount Pisgah Academies, Southern Missionary College, and Andrews University, where she majored in communications. She is the wife of Pastor Keith Knoche. Besides serving as a pastor’s wife, she is an advertising and public relations manager. She enjoys writing, water skiing, tennis, and needlepoint.
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Tom Skinner
This is not a comfortable book. But it is honest. Born in a negro ghetto, Tom Skinner evokes the atm osphere of hate and bigotry that shaped his character. A preacher’s son, he saw white and black churchianity dominated by greed, lust, hypocrisy. Then God broke into his life, at the moment when Tom was planning a gang fight involving 3,000 kids. That nighf was the beginning of freedom for him. He realise d that beyond demonstrations and social action there is an even greater force that can liberate black and white alike.
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This is the story of two years of my life. They were perhaps the busiest, the most interesting, and yet the most frustrating I may ever experience. In retrospect I seem to have lived a lifetime in those twenty-four months. In these pages I have opened my heart and have shared with you my thoughts, my doubts, my fears, my blunders, my failures, and my triumphs. I have never claimed to be a writer, and it was not my idea to write this book. But the publishers persisted, friends have encouraged me, and I have finally complied.
In order to write honestly, one has to relive the events, to re-create the emotional atmosphere, to recall myriads of details. Some of my Saigon memories are painful, and yet I have had to reopen the wounds, regardless of the discomfort they bring, and I have wept all over again as I recalled the sad times. Yet many of my experiences were happy, and I have loved reliving them. At times my sides have been sore from laughter in reminiscence. Some of the experiences may seem farfetched. Do not doubt their validity—all of them actually happened. Someone with a different personality and background might have laughed when I cried or marched forward valiantly when I cowered. My towering perplexities might have seemed inconsequential to another. But, on the other hand, perhaps someone else might have broken under the same circumstances.
Missionaries have no immunity from making mistakes. They do not come especially equipped with tremendous reservoirs of saintliness, patience, tact, wisdom, strength, or courage. Instead, they are just ordinary human beings, subject to all the common frailties, who find themselves placed in extraordinary circumstances. That God can take such imperfect instruments and use them is the miracle of Christianity. I hope that you will see how God worked in one missionary’s life.
—Marilyn Faye Bennett
After finishing her assignment in Saigon, Marilyn Bennett went around the world to sort out her thoughts and feelings. She did public health work in Borneo, hitchhiked alone across the Altiplano of Peru, walked 180 miles through four mountain ranges in Nepal with only a guide and two porters, and climbed part way up Mount Everest. Returning to the United States, she taught at Southern Missionary College and took graduate work at Loma Linda University. While at Loma Linda she helped in the Vietnamese refugee program.
