“A uniform day of rest that limits commercial activity can provide temporal boundaries that help communities to set aside time for religious observance, family gatherings, outdoor activities, and rest. A stable base of research shows that these practices correlate with better mental health, stronger social bonds, and more stable family structures.” https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/SR323.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Read MoreCHARLIE KIRK'S STOP, IN THE NAME OF GOD
Kirk’s interpretation of America and its history leads him to defend blue laws at the same time as he promotes the seventh-day Sabbath.
Read MoreREFLECTIONS ON THE FALL OF PHILIP YANCEY
On January 6, 2026, famed Christian author Philip Yancey admitted to having engaged in an eight-year adulterous affair with a married woman, and has thus chosen to withdraw from his written and spoken ministry. What influence might his popular teachings relative to sin, grace, and salvation have exerted in bringing about this tragedy?
Read MoreGABRIEL'S TRUMPET
As Ellen White has written, “The story of Bethlehem is an exhaustless theme” (The Desire of Ages, p. 48).
Read MoreVIGNETTES OF VIOLENCE IN A SEASON OF PEACE
Speaking of the world before Noah’s Flood, the modern prophet writes:
“The land was filled with violence. War, crime, murder, was the order of the day. Just so it will be before Christ’s second coming.”
Ellen G. White, SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 1, p. 1090.
Read MoreIS LAST GENERATION THEOLOGY A "FRINGE" DOCTRINE IN THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH?
Both our SDA Fundamental Beliefs and a recent survey of the global Seventh-day Adventist membership constrain us to answer this question decidedly in the negative.
Read MoreORIGINAL SIN AND OVERCOMING SIN: ARE THEY COMPATIBLE?
Does humanity’s inborn sinful nature require divine forgiveness, even if one does not yield to it? If so, is this doctrine (often called original sin) compatible with the Bible doctrine that through heaven’s power, human beings can live earthly lives free from sin?
Read MoreUNDENIABLE WONDERS
Currently, it would appear Satan’s hand is being stayed from doing undeniable miracles in public. Since God releasing Satan’s hand to do these miracles is the result of a decision by God and not by earthly politics or sources, then they will commence, virtually, at the throwing of a switch.
Read MoreIS BELIEF IN ELLEN WHITE’S PROPHETIC GIFT MERELY OPTIONAL FOR SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS?
Both baptismal vows listed in the Church Manual, the larger one and the shorter alternative, assume that the new believer has accepted the Fundamental Beliefs of the church, which include acceptance of Ellen White’s prophetic authority.
Read MoreWHY LAST GENERATION THEOLOGY IS BIBLICAL
“The Bible makes a stunning prediction. At the end of time, God will have a group of people that are totally, completely loyal to him. A people whose hearts are undivided. A people whose lives reflect the character of Christ fully.”
Read MoreOF CREEDS, CANCEL CULTURE, AND THE U.S. SENATE FILIBUSTER
It’s usually a question of whose proverbial “ox” is being gored.
Read MoreTHE CONTEXTUALIZATION TRAP
The secret of religious faith is not adaptation, but transcendence. The Word of God addresses its cultural context, but it must remain the judge thereof, never its child.
Read MorePROTECTING WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT
The soon return of Jesus calls for true heart preparation on the part of God’s people.
Read MoreECUMENISM ADVANCES
The new rapprochement between the papacy and Anglicanism offers fresh evidence of hands stretched “across the gulf,” as the modern prophet foretells.
Read MoreOCCUPY
It might be a chance meeting at a market, an encounter at work or school, or even the opportunity to help a stranger while fishing, that leads to a life transformed by Jesus. We cannot know exactly when Jesus will return. But it is our privilege to occupy until He does.
Read MoreTHE TREND [STILL] CONTINUES
Recent evidence demonstrates that despite the claim of certain ones that secularism is overwhelming American society, religious interest is presently growing, theologically conservative churches continue to flourish, and theologically liberal churches continue to decline.
Read MoreTHE LONG WAIT
The signs of the times act less as signposts telling us how far we have to travel, and more like signposts informing us what road we are on.
Read MoreGOING TOGETHER---GOD'S WAY
“Christ calls for unity. But He does not call for us to unify on wrong practices. The God of heaven draws a sharp contrast between pure, elevating, ennobling truth and false, misleading doctrines. He calls sin and impenitence by the right name. He does not gloss over wrongdoing with a coat of untempered mortar. I urge our brethren to unify upon a true, scriptural basis.”
Ellen G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 1, p. 175.
Read MoreTHE MISSION
Nothing has changed in regard to the mission of the church since the crestfallen Millerites realized Jesus would not return as they had anticipated. If anything, the mandate given the church has only sharpened.
Read MoreTHE BIBLICAL PROBLEM WITH GAY CONVERSION THERAPY
The Bible condemns same-gender sexual intimacy without qualification, and is equally clear that in God’s paradigm, only two genders exist. But does this mean the inner urge to engage in such conduct must be obliterated from one’s fleshly nature in order to please God?
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