One Thing I Know [and Other Stuff I Strongly Suspect]

by Coffin, James

• ISBN13: 9780828017596
• ISBN10: 082801759X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Review & Herald Publishing

Summary

One Thing I Know is a collection of short essays, originally written editorials that address aspects of spiritual life from the perspective of a Seventh-day Adventist. James Coffin brings order out of the chaos of changing ideas theology, and Adventist mores. His lucid, commonsense approach to Christian living will set the windmills of your mind awhirl. How he asks, can we avoid becoming inoculated against Christianity? What about formal dress in a changing culture? Music? Loyalty to the 27 fundamentals? Essay titles include "Silence the Trumpets, " "Bringing Up Junior, " "Concerning Camels, " "Effective Dissent, " "Myth of the Open Mind, " "Goat Tales, " and "Does Suicide Preclude Salvation?" And don't miss the award-winning "By Their Loot Ye Shall Know Them."

Author Biography

After nine years as an editor, five of those in Australia, James Coffin now serves as the senior pastor of the Markham Woods church in Longwood, Florida. Having lived in highly secularized environments, he has a deep commitment to developing approaches that show how the gospel is still relevant today

Table of Contents

Musings and Observations
Feeding the Pigeons	p. 11
Goat Tales	p. 14
Great Teacher, Great Deceiver	p. 16
Guilty	p. 18
Here's to a Good Year	p. 21
If I Had It to Do Again	p. 23
Less Than Meets the Eye	p. 25
Metamorphosis	p. 27
Mirror, Mirror, on the Car	p. 29
Motives	p. 31
Not Staying	p. 33
Facts and Fables
Against Sin or for Righteousness	p. 35
Bringing Up Junior	p. 37
Devil's Doctrine	p. 39
Facing the Fact of Life	p. 42
Facts and Faith	p. 45
Fat and Other Weighty Issues	p. 47
If You Were Truly Sincere	p. 49
Myth of the Open Mind	p. 51
Screening the Big Screen	p. 53
Seeking a More Secure Knot	p. 55
So Different, Yet So Alike	p. 57
Sometimes We Just Don't Get It	p. 59
Scripture Reconsidered
A Definition for Sin	p. 61
A Great Story	p. 63
A Story Revisited	p. 66
A Story Revisited-Again	p. 69
Flat Tires and Other Miracles	p. 72
From Rags to Riches	p. 74
Harmonizing the Old and New	p. 76
Let's Be for Real	p. 78
Off the Track?	p. 80
One Thing I Know	p. 82
Living in a Mixed-up World
Can We Really Afford It?	p. 84
Don't Forget the Present	p. 86
Face It, It's a Faith Issue	p. 88
For the Term of His Natural Life	p. 90
In God We (Some, Anyway) Trust (Somewhat)	p. 92
Leveling the Acceptable	p. 94
No High School Bible Classes, Please	p. 96
No Prayer, Please	p. 98
Protecting One's Investment	p. 100
God's Word and Our Understandings
Agreeing With God	p. 102
Balancing the Equation	p. 105
Concerning Camels	p. 107
Consequences	p. 110
Consistency, Please	p. 113
Does Suicide Preclude Salvation?	p. 116
God on Trial	p. 118
Of Creeds and Concrete	p. 120
Relating to Christ's Bride
By Their Loot Ye Shall Know Them	p. 123
Dropping the Cultured Stones	p. 125
Effective Dissent	p. 130
Giving and Getting	p. 132
Here to Stay	p. 135
Inoculated	p. 137
Judging the Sheepfolds	p. 139
Just Call Me Jim	p. 142
Learning to Fly	p. 144
Memorable Experiences	p. 146
Needed: A Statute of Limitation	p. 148
One Man's View	p. 150
Repeating the Past	p. 152
Self-conversing	p. 154
Silence the Trumpets	p. 157
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