When we learn to trust God and wait on Him, even when the situation seems impossible, we will, looking back, see that God’s way and God’s timing is always best.
“The story of Bethlehem is an exhaustless theme.”
Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 48.
Does God’s grace annul the necessity of reproducing the perfect character of Jesus here and now? Or does it make this perfection possible?
One of the most powerful ways of revealing love is by showing grace to others. Is there someone you know—a friend, family member, co-worker, someone at church, a neighbor, even a stranger—who needs extra grace from you today? It can sometimes be difficult, but let us remember our Lord’s promise, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness” (II Cor. 12:9).
As 2024 draws to a close, the world and the church continue to face crisis. And the needs of our ministry, material and otherwise, continue to persist.
It is sad, though at times perhaps amusing, the way visceral resentment on the part of theologically liberal Adventists against our classic eschatology in general and Ellen White in particular has led to unbelievable ignorance of both contemporary and historical reality so far as Catholic teachings are concerned.
We are all familiar with Jesus’ parable of the wheat and the tares. Most articles and discussions on this topic focus on how the wheat are to treat the tares. That is, they warn of the dangers of being too severe with alleged wrongdoers. But the main focus of this parable is not what we think and have often been taught.
On October 27, 2024, a scant twelve days after reaching the remarkable age of 103, my dear father, Richard Samuel Paulson, passed to his rest in the company of his loving family in Half Moon Bay, California.
Jesus came to set the captives free (see Luke 4:18), and this is the calling He gives us today. No one is beyond the reach of His healing hand. There are many beautiful passages giving hope and encouragement, pointing to a better, happier life—a life God intended, as outlined in His Word.
In the words of the psalmist, “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes” (Psalm 118:9). The message of Daniel 4:17 is still in the Bible—that “the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.” The clash of freedom lovers and would-be tyrants is ever subject to the jurisdiction of the King of Kings.
In a few days, voters in the United States of America—if they haven’t voted already—will choose a new President and Vice-President, together with countless officials at varying levels of government. Once again it becomes us as Seventh-day Adventist Christians to assess our responsibility as citizens of this present world even as we prepare for citizenship in the world to come.
The crux of the issue in a continuing controversy among the striving faithful in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.