Pastor Hamstra’s Resources
Publications by Sam Hamstra, Jr.
In addition to serving as a contributor for the Twentieth-Century Dictionary of Christian Biography, edited by J. D. Douglas (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1995), and for the Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, edited by Walter Elwell (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1995), Pastor Hamstra has written a few books and several articles, as follows:
- "Multiple Roles of the Local Parish Pastor: A Case Study," Review for Religious 44 (Number 4, July/August, 1985): 533-543.
- "The Americanization of the Church and Its Pastoral Ministry," The New Mercersburg Review (Spring, 1992): 3-19.
- "Don't Call Me 'Doctor'!" The Church Herald (December, 1992): 6.
- "John Williamson Nevin: The Pastoral Office," The New Mercersburg Review (Autumn, 1994): 3-23.
- Reformed Confessionalism in Nineteenth Century America: Essays on the Thought of John Williamson Nevin, edited with Arie J. Griffioen (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1995).
- "An Idealist View of Revelation," in Four Views of Revelation edited by Marvin C. Pate (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing Co., 1997).
- "Altar Calls and Effectual Calls," Modern Reformation (July/August 1998): 19-22.
- "John W. Nevin: The Pietist," The New Mercersburg Review XXVIII (Spring 2001), 20-35.
- Followership, The Banner (August 2005): 18-19.
- The Reformed Pastor: Lectures on Pastoral Theology by John Nevin (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Press, 2006).
- Principled Worship: Biblical Roots for Emerging Liturgies (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2006).
- "A Modest Proposal," The Banner (March 2007), 18-20.