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Herald of Holiness Volume 85 Number 05 (1996) Wesley D Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 5-1-1996 Herald of Holiness Volume 85 Number 05 (1996) Wesley D. Tracy (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Christianity Commons, History of Christianity Commons, Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Practical Theology Commons Recommended Citation Tracy, Wesley D. (Editor), "Herald of Holiness Volume 85 Number 05 (1996)" (1996). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 29. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/29 This Journal Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Church of the Nazarene at Digital Commons @ Olivet. It has been accepted for inclusion in Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Inspiration for Life Situations Anyone who Whether you has had chil­ have a baby dren will on the way, identify or are trying w ith these to conceive a am using child, this anecdotes of practical ad­ a young, vice will contem po­ prove to be rary couple invaluable. and their HH083-411-6197 kids. S7.99 HH083-411-6243 S7.99 A book of Eft <n»y F & ott I An essential hope for survival tool those con­ for the “stay fronting at hom e” p ar­ w hat they ent. Includes think is a insights on hopeless fu­ spiritual de­ ture for the velopment, people they business ven­ love—a nurs­ tures, organi­ ing hom e. zation, and HH083-411-6189 so forth. $9.99 HH083-411-576X $8.99 V' ;........ ™ "Ktiifiqrt M artin - | j | 7 r \ y A- To order call 1 -800-877-0700 BEACON HILL PRESS (Fax: 1-800-849-9827) OF KANSAS CITY Contents MAY 1996 VOLUME 85, NO. 5 FEATURES 8 Sole Seekers JUDITH A. SCHWANZ 10 Single with Children VICTOR M. PARACHIN 20 Mother’s Day Feature: God’s Way Is the Best Way THELMA SUNBERG 24 Talk Me Through R. GUILFORD FITZ JR. 26 Metaphors of the Spirit: Doves and Roses WESLEY TRACY Welcome Breeze 21 GEOFF AUSTIN 36 The Cross of the Triune God RODERICK T. LEUPP 38 When Life Cancels Your Coupons TINA KRAUSE 40 Wesleyan Baptists? Absolutely! RAY HENDRIX POETRY 28 Tongues of Fire, katherine short Inside Back Cover Together, Two or Three, m arilyn black phem ister CONTINUING COLUMNS 4 General Superintendent’s Viewpoint, donald d. ow ens 5 Into the Word, roger l. hahn 29 Over 60, c. ellen w atts 30 Rhythms of the Spirit, m orris a. w eigelt 32 The Family Album, ierry & lynda cohagan 33 In a Woman’s Voice, susan hanson bates 41 Masculine Journey, m ark m etcalfe 46 Observer at Large, john c. bow ling DEPARTMENTS 2 Editor’s Choice, w esley d. tracy 3 Signs, MICHAEL R. ESTEP 6 The Readers Write 14-17, 43-45 News 18 Nazarene Family 39 May’s 10-Point Quiz 26 44 The Quote Rack 47 Marked Copy, m ark graham COVER PHOTO- 48 Late News //m W hitmer Editor’s Choice May 1996 Whole No. 3560 Vol. 85, No. 5 Lili in the Lion’s Den Editor, Wesley D. Tracy Managing Editor, Mark Graham WESLEY D. TRACY The lion turns. A throaty growl. Administrative Secretary Tail twitching in the spring sunlight. Carolyn S. Hampton A paralyzing hush falls like a lid. All eyes turn to the toddler and the li­ Director on. Division of Communications “Komme, Katzchen.” (Come, kit­ Michael R. Estep ten.) “Mulie, mulie, mulie.’’(Kitty, kitty, kitty.) General Superintendents Jerald D. Johnson No one breathes. One reveler drops John A. Knight his beer. The raucous music of the cal­ William J. Prince liope rollicks on as senseless as the Donald D. Owens dead Greek goddess of the same name. James H. Diehl Little Karen leans forward and Paul G. Cunningham May Day celebration, M a rb u rg , smiles into the lion’s face. She has Germ any. found the biggest, grandest kitty in Bible quotations in this issue: The town council decides to invite town, “Schoene Katzchen.” (Nice kit­ Unidentified quotations are from k j v . Quotations from the following translations are used by permis­ a traveling circus to enhance the fes­ ty-) sion: tivities. And so the park at the heart The lion does not return the smile. ( n e b ) From The New English Bible. Copyright © by of the city is soon filled with clowns, A toothy snarl. A drawn-back paw. the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and jugglers, magicians, tightrope walk­ Someone screams. The calliope ca­ the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1961,1970 ers, sword swallowers, cotton candy, reens into a crescendo. The attendant ( n iv ) From the Holy Bible. New International and fire-eaters. And the animals, they stares, stunned into frozen inactivity. Version* ( n iv ® ). Copyright © 1973,1978,1984 by are present too. In a big circle near Another toothy snarl. A slight International Bible Society. Used by permission of the pond in the park, caged tigers and twitch at the bushy end of the tail Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. lions and bears pace. Monkeys chat­ echoes each movement of the child. ( n k j v ) From the New King James Version. Copy­ right © 1979,1980,1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc. ter, and the elephants parade. Presid­ Lili Khabel snatches the key ring ( n r s v ) From the New Revised Standard Version of ing over all this is the happy music of from the slack-jawed attendant. Five the Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Chris­ the calliope. keys. The second one tian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. All rights reserved. Lili Khabel decides to w orks. W h a t makes ( r s v ) From the Revised Standard Version of the introduce her little girl, Lili rushes into the Bible, copyright 1946,1952,1971 by the Division Karen, to the excitement cage. Swoops up her ba­ of Christian Education of the National Council of of the circus. What fun! mothers so by. A race to the cage the Churches of Christ in the USA. I can see it n ow , c a n ’t door. The calliope rol­ ( t l b ) From The Living Bible, © 1971. Used by per­ brave? mission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., you? Music, clowns, licks on. Lili slams the Wheaton, IL 60189. All rights reserved. candy, and bratwurst on a bun with door in the face of the charging lion. brown mustard. But while Lili pays Cheers! Applause! Lili faints. for the second round of snacks, little Lili Khabel is as scared of lions as Herald of Holiness (USPS 241-400) is pub­ Karen disappears. you are. What gave her such courage? lished monthly by the NAZARENE PUBLISH­ “Karen! Karen!” But the rollicking Love. Love makes mothers brave. ING HOUSE, 2923 Troost Ave., Kansas City, music of the calliope drowns her When love fills your being, fear is MO 64109. Editorial offices at 6401 The voice. For 5, maybe 10 minutes, Lili ousted. No room. Love can free you Paseo, Kansas City, MO 64131 (816-333- 7000, ext. 2302). E-mail: scurries from one exhibit to another. from fear. Of course, we should have <[email protected]>. Address all corre­ N o K aren. known that already. The Bible says, spondence concerning subscriptions to Then she spots her. The toddler “There is no fear in love . perfect Nazarene Publishing House, P.O. Box has, quite unnoticed by the attendant, love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18, 419527, Kansas City, MO 64141. Copyright 1996 by Nazarene Publishing House. POST­ squeezed through the bars of the li­ n r s v ) . When your being is filled with MASTER: Please send change of address to on’s cage! She canters behind the love fo r God and the love o f God, it is Herald of Holiness, P.O. Box 419527, Kansas pacing lion. Little legs pump, chubby quite amazing how many of the “li­ City, MO 64141. Second-class postage paid in hands reach out trying to catch the li­ ons of life” you can lock up in their Kansas City, Mo. Canadian GST No. o n ’s tail. cages. tfc R129017471. H e r a l d o f H o lin ess S igns God for everything!” One day he asked her, “Are you a typical Nazarene?” She simply answered, “I Beacon Hill like to think so.” Donna’s hopeful living opened the door for Lonnie to visit Redding First Church of the Nazarene. Lonnie in­ vited himself to go and find out if she really was a “typical Nazarene.” The next Sunday, Lonnie sat with Michael R. Estep is director of the Com­ Donna and her family on the first munications Division, Church of the pew. “I was overwhelmed with how Nazarene. friendly everyone was,” Lonnie re­ members. “I fell in love with the mu­ sic. The choir was awesome; in fact, ) 1Ij Living hope — t h a t ’s L o n n ie a n d that’s what brought me back, and this DeeDee Johnson. time DeeDee was with me.” \ J i ) . JJJJU Six years ago, Lonnie and DeeDee Three weeks later, as then Pastor Qjccmung your walk with called home a van— parked anywhere Ron Greeno preached Christ, Lonnie • jihI through faith they could park it in Redding, Cali­ and DeeDee came to know Jesus, the fornia. They were inhabitants of the Living Hope.
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