FEATURES

• "Priceless," by Joan E. Bottles. Realizing that her friend was poor and that she may have gone without food to buy her this gift, Ngan felt it was only fair to keep the Bible and read it.
• "Haiti at 50," by John M. Smee. Fifty years ago it was all just beginning. Today it is reported that more Nazarenes live in Haiti than in any other country except the United States. Why? We give it the name evangelism. Haitian Nazarenes believe it is just the way of the holiness life.
• "The Peculiar, Compelling Ought," by Michael Benson. With the instructions of the Great Commission so clear and the need of people for salvation so great, the Body of Christ must ask, "Where is our passion for the lost?"

• "Paul Orjala: Living the Language of God," by Dean Nelson. When God wants to send a message, He wraps it up in a person and sends that person. Paul Orjala was His message to Haiti.

• Challenge: "What Are We Selling?" by Jon Johnston. This continuation in a series of articles on the greatest challenges facing the Church of the Nazarene in the third millennium asks, How can we uncompromisingly permeate 21st-century culture with the transforming message of the gospel?

COLUMNS

• Heartbeat: "Growing a Vision," by Bill M. Sullivan. New habits arenāt easily formed. But they are essential to a change in behavior.
• Editorās Forum: Octoberās forum compares and explains postmodernism, premodernism, and modernism.
• The Deeper Way: "Unleashed," by Roderick T. Leupp. Augustine believed that although God had made us without ourselves, He would not save us without ourselves.
• Family Tree: "All Saints, All the Time," by Rick and Bonnie Ryding. Each generation needs genuine heroes who embody the Spirit of Christ and who boldly live Kingdom realities while passing through the shadowlands of earth.

• Worldview: "Mourning Into Gladness," by A. Brent Cobb. In the evil of a prisoner of war camp, God was at work in an amazing way.

• Metro: "City Saints," by Fletcher L. Tink. To walk today in Assisi, a city forever linked with Francisās name, is to feel not only his impact but also something of the exquisite presence of God.
• In the Mirror: "Got Abraham?" by W. E. McCumber. God gives power for a purpose, but too many people want the power without involving themselves in the purpose.
• Essay: "To Stop a Friend From Dying," by Randall E. Davey. The death of a friend provides a lesson on what it means to believe.
• Commission: "Keeping the Glory Down," by John A. Knight. True worship is more than a declaration of the lips, an affirmation of the mind, a feeling of the emotions, or the robotic actions of the body. It is a commitment of the will and an expression of the life -- all of which bring glory to God.

COMING IN NOVEMBER: "HOLINESS IN A MATERIALISTIC SOCIETY"

• "Holiness: When Empty Means Full," by Henry W. Spaulding II. In a materialistic society where significance is placed on portfolios, where the "bottom line" determines the decision, where an insatiable appetite drives accumulation, and where the created is worshiped over the Creator, God still calls His children to be holy. How can holiness free us from a preoccupation with material things? How can we see our possessions -- both material and spiritual -- as resources to be shared in the pattern of Christ?