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. 

Those who proclaim God’s last message for mankind, who seek first and foremost to be among that company who “keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus” (Rev. 14:12), need to be especially careful in vetting what they hear about both the church and the outside world. 

According to both Scripture and the writings of Ellen White, the cleansing of the sanctuary in heaven and the cleansing of the soul temple on earth are clearly and irrevocably dependent on one another.

This week the world remembered one of the most grotesque tragedies in human history. Its lessons dare not be forgotten, especially by Christians.

Within the past week, both the outgoing and incoming Presidents of the United States have issued blanket pardons to particular individuals.  We aren’t going to discuss on this site the wisdom, justice, or lack thereof in any of these decisions.  But as Bible-believing Seventh-day Adventist Christians we are constrained to ask, Does God issue pardons of this nature within the setting of Biblical salvation?

Does the Bible support the baptizing of people “into Christ,” rather than into a church with a set of doctrines?

“Fires will break out unexpectedly, and no human effort will be able to quench them. The palaces of earth will be swept away in the fury of the flames. . . . The end is near, probation is closing! Oh, let us seek God while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near!”

Ellen G. White, Messages to Young People, pp. 89-90.

The crux of the issue in a continuing controversy among the striving faithful in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

“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?

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. 

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.

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.

One hundred and eighty years ago today, in fulfillment of the Bible’s longest time prophecy (Dan. 8:14), heaven’s tribunal assembled to commence review of the life records of those within the human family who have professed to be followers of the God of Scripture (Dan. 7:9-14; 12:1; Rev. 3:5). 

Why would it take the Lord this long to finish the judgment of the righteous dead?