May the trials and triumphs of this new quinquennium be bathed in the glory of the blessed hope!  May our transcendent agenda be the unbroken conquest of evil in our lives, and in the life of God’s corporate faith community, resulting in the glad refrain: “Next stop: the New Jerusalem.”

The global witness of the great Advent movement dare not be moderated or temporized for the sake of superficial unity, nor can it digress from its divine purpose in pursuit of causes defined by cultural grievance or secular political ideologies. 

Love-based, Spirit-empowered obedience is the condition of our salvation because such obedience is the only kind God will accept—the only kind that will secure the universe for eternity against a recurrence of the present rebellion.

“The world can only be warned by seeing those who believe the truth sanctified through the truth, acting upon high and holy principles, showing in a high, elevated sense, the line of demarcation between those who keep the commandments of God and those who trample them under their feet.”

Ellen G. White, SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 7, p. 980.

A popular presenter in certain circles of conservative Adventism is claiming that these two are different? What does the inspired evidence teach?

A most revealing exchange during the recent debate in the Texas state legislature over a law mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.

The question is, Who does the imparting?

The loving acts of our Lord extended to all, regardless of their beliefs or practices, but in no way does this imply that acceptance within Christ’s kingdom is open to all, regardless of what they choose to believe or how they choose to live.

The election of the first American pope gives every evidence of highlighting the prophetic interplay between the two symbolic beasts of Revelation 13.

Grace is the underlying and overarching theme of the Bible story, the heartbeat of its doctrinal and moral imperatives and the rationale of its prophetic revelations.

The recent and very public departure from Adventism of a prominent figure in Adventist media ministry has again raised the issue of the assurance of salvation and how it relates to the classic Seventh-day Adventist doctrine of the investigative judgment. What does the Bible say?

In a word, no. Genuine revival and reformation through a return to the inspired blueprint will rescue Seventh-day Adventist education with an impassioned recovery of the church’s doctrinal and practical mission, as set forth in Scripture and the writings of the Spirit of Prophecy.

The scope of grace and perfection is again in the spotlight. What does the written counsel of God say?

The church is not obligated to legally or publicly defend any sort of conviction or practice on the part of its members, merely because it is claimed that such convictions or practices are based on the conscience.  Only those conscientious choices, convictions, or practices sustained by the written counsel of God (Isa. 8:20; Acts 17:11) merit the public endorsement of the church and the commitment of church resources so far as the legal defense and protection of members’ conduct is concerned. 

A recent article on a leading liberal Adventist website makes the thoughtful reader wonder whether those so long inclined to criticize Ellen White’s eschatological worldview might soon be persuaded that her predictions are quite credible after all.

A new and growing urban legend in contemporary Adventism is the claim that the doctrinal authority of the Ellen G. White writings was not accepted by Ellen White herself while she lived, but was instead fabricated after her death by so-called “fundamentalists” in the church.  Is this correct?

Students can’t be blamed for protesting the enforcement of Biblical standards if they haven’t been led to recognize and understand the role these standards play in the Biblical worldview and in God’s eternal purpose for His church and for humanity.

Do the inspired writings uphold this distinction?

“The church may appear as about to fall, but it does not fall. It remains, while the sinners in Zion will be sifted out, the chaff separated from the precious wheat” (Ellen G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 2, p. 380).

Has this statement been taken out of context by those who believe it promises the eventual triumph of corporate Adventism through the shaking out of its apostate majority?

When one listens to theological discussions in Adventism today, online and otherwise, the use of the fundamentalist label is clearly not designed to win the respect of those to whom it is applied.