Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 12-1-1992 Herald of Holiness Volume 81 Number 12 (1992) 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 81 Number 12 (1992)" (1992). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 84. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/84 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]. TROUBLED T K N o * on to] PERFECTION JOYBAWLS J HAVING IT ALL NAZARENE PUBLISH Trapped in the Wrappings AFTER by N ancy C. Sp/ege/b^ j ^ ^ ^ ^ CHRISTMAS? When - m , the holly and the ivy my Christmas joy X. ' j , / > turkey freezes into i' v jr '. cranberry a snow job . U i, ;< so sorry and X i &*, another trolley my holiday vv x ^ m w . don’t touch! elaborate v the holly and the ivy till I'm wrappikifL ' ^ i l i , Can I have it, Mummy? the trappings • X ‘.v ■ ham trapped in the wm’ ^ cherries wrappings ^ % M ' j cake Lord x^yv \ v I* 5 I'l untanaleine . S Christmas crackers -a v * help y : the holly and the ivy the tinsel day- more cards o f my hair jelly refreshfresh me ✓. „w chocolate chip cookies with a look r DON’T TOUCH! of the gift Where’s Santa Claus? of Your Son. I want Skipper ■ V v H / 131 not Barbie sage or rosemary? onions W ;*pre^crumbs \ ’ thigjjjK^and the ivy holbtffccl the ivy /THE HOHY AND THE IVY ^ s . , 1 \ 1 W. ' J , i roed^tibbt?rted > I Bnthe candles jgldw^* , nordn churchy \ the slow ov£ y I y ■ twenty ierdfnilinner. • » * ¥ > Herald of Holiness CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Volume 81, No. 12 FEATURE ARTICLES DECEMBER 1992 20 28 Partners in Publishing Having It All Prayer and the R o b e r t F o s t e r J u l ie W a r d e n -G a y Five Dollar Letter C a r o l T e c h a u 44 On to Perfection W il l ia m M . G r e a t h o u s e CONTINUING COLUMNS 8 G eneral Superintendent’s Viewpoint E u g e n e L. S t o w e It All Started with 9 Into the Word R o g e r L. H a h n the Sugar Creek 23 12 In a Woman’s Voice Gang R e b e c c a L a ir d W e s l e y D . T r a c y The Whirlwind of 13 The Family Album Christmas J e r r y a n d L y n d a C o h a g a n 4 D a n W h it n e y 43 Observer at Large W . E. M c C u m b e r The NPH Family 47 Marked Copy P a u l M il l e r 24 M a r k G r a h a m Christmas 19 Joybawls Good News from R u t h G l o v e r DEPARTMENTS Bangkok 6 Editor’s Choice M ic h a e l P. M c C a r t y W es l e y D . T r a c y 10 The Readers Write 14-18, 38-40 News POETRY ■ ■ M a r k G r a h a m T o m F e l d e r Because You Gave Inside Front Cover 19 34 Annual Index Trapped in the 36 The Question Box W rappings 37 December’s 10 Point N a n c y C . S p ie g e l b e r g Quiz After Christmas? 41 Close to Home M e r l e L a m p r e c h t T o m F eld er 26 42 The Quote Rack Good Parents and 48 Late News O Christmas Tree Troubled Teens M a r k G r a h a m B e t t y K n ig h t Les Parrott III T o m F e ld er PARTNERS IN PUBLISHING pv RORFRT FHRTFR MANAGER, NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE he whole gospel to the whole world by the printed p a g e ” has been the motto of Nazarene Publishing House since its founding in 1912. Our revolving sign on Troost Avenue beacons the words “God’sr Word for Today’s World.” Out mission statement: “Nazarene Publishing House, commissioned by the Church of the Nazarene, exists to build and nurture Christ’s church through the ministry of publishing communication resources.” Our purpose rings clear. We commit ourselves to provid­ ing the members of our church and the greater Christian community with resources for carrying out the Great Com­ mission: “Go and make disciples.” I wish all of you had the privilege of witnessing up close, as we do, the creativity and commitment required to take an idea from concept to ministry. It may be a musical or piano arrangement, an article or a book, a Sunday School lesson or a teacher training video, a magazine or a three-act play. The path from concept to development to production to distribu­ tion is an adventure in ministry performed by loving hands in the NPH partnership. Much of this work happens through a series of partner­ ships NPH shares with various divisions and ministries at Nazarene Headquarters. Sunday School Ministries creates and edits the WordAc- tion Sunday School materials, which brings holiness curricu­ lum to a new level of excellence. This children’s and youth curriculum debuts in the fall of 1993. The Communications Division continues to enhance and expand the Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City book line. We continue to receive strong affirmation about the quality of the Herald of Holiness. Publications International creates the French, Portuguese, Spanish, and intercultural English resources. The World Mission Division keeps us informed and in­ volved through books, World Mission magazine, and period­ icals. The Nazarene Publishing House cooperates with the divi­ sions of Stewardship and Finance and Church Growth in providing vital ministry and program resources. Lillenas Publishing Company has a creative staff that cre­ ates the multiple music and drama products that enhance our worship. Our new hymnal, Sing to the Lord, will be in your hands in the spring of 1993. Our writers from all over the world are also important partners with NPH. Their skills and inspiration fuel our presses. There is one other partnership without which all others would fail. That is you! Your loyal support and use of NPH resources have enabled NPH to maintain a quality publishing operation for the past 80 years. My special thanks to you and all our partners. IT ALL STARTED WITH THE SUGAR CREEK GANG BY WESLEY D. TRACY he Nazarene Publishing ever used. Looking back, I realize other educational projects. House first began to af­ that the writers and editors who I then worked as a college fect my life through the prepared the Sunday School mate­ (MANC) and seminary (NTS) pages of the Sugar Creek rials, youth publications, the mis­ professor for 13 years, but NPH TGang series. The very nightsionary after publications, and the H e r­ was still a part of my life, publish­ the mail carrier left another Sugar a ld along with NPH, whose ing several books that I wrote, and Creek Gang book in our postbox people manufactured those prod­ giving me the privilege of editing out on the gravel road, Mom ucts, all served as a sort of assis­ the Preacher’s Magazine for about would gather us around her and, in tant pastor to my parishioners. a decade. Then, in 1989, I started the light of a kerosene lamp, read When my brother and I were working on the H erald. us one more adventure. rookie pastors, my father died of a I can’t remember a time when I We didn’t have many books heart attack at age 53. Bud Lunn did not want to write. As a young back then. The ones we did have and Everette Pleyer stepped for­ Christian, I thought I had to give were read and reread. We got the ward and gave my widowed moth­ up writing in order to “get sancti­ Herald of Holiness every week, er a job “for life” at NPH. The fied.” More than once, I promised and Dad would buy textbooks for Nazarene Publishing House, rep­ the Lord that I would never write his work in the course of study. resenting that great Nazarene fam­ again. When I got to the place that He was a country preacher and ily, reached out and helped us I could give it up, the Lord, as He later became the director of the when we needed it the most. I will is wont to do, gave it back to Kansas City Rescue Mission. I never live long enough to forget me— better than ever. I don’t have still have his Fundamental Christ­ that. to work for the Kansas City Star ian Theology written by A.