Spring 1995

Volume X, Number 1

In This Issue

• A. N. Wilson’s Jesus by Bruce Carlson

  “The religious life is more complicated than these guys want to admit.” — P.H.

• Waldenstrom's Commentary Luke 22:39-45 and Waldenstrom’s Commentary translated by Tommy Carlson

  Matthew gives the most complete story of Jesus suffering in Gethsemane. Luke is very brief. However, the story about the appearance of the angel before Jesus as well as the sweat drops of blood are peculiar to Luke.

• Books The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield reviewed by Elder M. Lindahl

  Once millennial mile posts come into view, creative, speculative, entrepreneurial people begin polishing their crystal balls. Just now, some five years before the new millennium dawns, author James Redfield is busy, and others are listening to him.

• Opera by Max Carlson

  Everyone loves a good story. We all like action thrillers and adventure. But when we think of those kinds of things we depend on a movie. Hardly anyone would think of an opera or a play.

• Eyeball to Eyeball by Arthur W. Anderson

  Don’t any of us look at each other anymore? I thought of that while ambling through the local mall the other night. With all the eyes coming at you, somewhere there is a pair of blue eyes that would accidentally meet yours.

• Snakes

  People have feared snakes for years. I also feared them. People have been scared of snakes because they think they are slimy, ugly creatures; but really, they are harmless — unless you provoke them.

• Practical, Therapeutic, Theological Thought Life and Games by Penrod

  The statement “life is a game” is a metaphor. I use games, especially sports, to shed light on how I am playing my positions in life.

• Poetry The Pioneer Parson by Ethel Swanson Palmberg

  He came . . . driven by an irresistible power, the power of love for those who sought a new home in the wilderness.

• Introducing George Daniel Hall — Pastor-Journalist by George D. Hall and translated by George F. Hall

  A selection from G.D. Hall’s reports of Swedish-American mission meetings, 1895-1911, translated by his son George F. Hall: a mission meeting in Phelps County, Nebraska, in 1899.

• Tilltalad (Addressed) — The Sermons of Frank Mangs (1897-1994) by Runar Eldebo and translated by Tommy Carlson

  Through a long period of this century a preacher named Frank Mangs (1897-1994) was a powerful influence both in Sweden and America. Runar Eldebo’s foreword to a new book of his sermons.

• A Poor Bargain by Frank Mangs

  Jesus was a master when it came to forming talking pictures. Not just the time He talked about the mote and the beam or the time He talked about people who would strain gnats and devour camels, but also when He talked about the worth of the soul.

• Tributes LaVonne Sundell by David Sundell

  Any new year holds the promise, and the threat if I am to be fair about it, of unexpected challenges and happenings. As much as we might calculate and consider, weigh and balance, plan and anticipate, certain events can and do change the course of our lives.

• Tributes Philip Enoch Liljengren by Dave Liljengren

  Philip Enoch Liljengren, my father, came into the world, he liked to say, between verses of the closing hymn. The son of a Covenant pastor, he was born late morning, Sunday, August 13, 1911, in West Warwick, Rhode Island.

• Reflections of a Neurologist by Lynne O. Geweke, MD

  Let me introduce myself to you. Although it is true that I specialize in the treatment of headaches, by training and practice I am a neurologist. I learned long ago that lots of people are not sure what a neurologist is or does — which is probably a good sign.

• Out and About by Phil Johnson

  “Where is the soul?” “What is it?” “Is it?” Socrates thought that the soul was a knowable, eternal reality and he willingly bet his life on its eternal existence.

• Sport Prophecy 1995 All-Pietisten College Basketball Picks by Eric

  The Sport Prophet’s first and second All-Pietisten college basketball teams for 1995.

• Post: Readers Respond

  I was honored to get a letter from the editor of Pietisten in response to my change of address notice! Good Housekeeping, Yankee, etc., did not write us! What marvelous personal attention!

• Did You Miss Your Winter Issue of Pietisten?

  You are not alone. You missed it because we missed it. As it turns out, 1994 was a three-issue year.