There are those in contemporary Adventism who urge that doctrinal, moral, and ecclesiastical differences be transcended through “oneness in Christ.” But the Bible presents two visions of Christian oneness—one in John 17, the other in Isaiah 4. Which one will we embrace?

Ellen White’s repetitive insistence that First John 3:4 (“Sin is the transgression of the law”) is the only definition of sin found in Holy Scripture, is both consistent with the overall Biblical message and compellingly logical.

Let us pray for and encourage our leaders to take a decisive though compassionate stand for the teachings of God’s Word relative to gender and sexuality, and to hold all accountable at every level for their adherence to the same.  Nothing less is possible for the great end-time movement of whom God will one day soon declare, “Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus” (Rev. 14:12).

We don’t know what April 8, 2024 will bring.  None can be sure whether the path of the pending solar eclipse over towns named Nineveh and Jonah is anything but a coincidence.  And none can be sure when Ellen White’s prophecies of fireballs destroying buildings, in Nashville or elsewhere, will come to pass. 

But at the bottom line, God isn’t waiting on natural or man-made disasters so that Jesus can come.  Rather, He is waiting on the spiritual preparedness of His people, who through His grace will reproduce the character of Christ in their hearts and lives (I Thess. 5:23; II Peter 3:10-14; I John 3:2-3; Rev. 3:21; 12:17; 14:5,12). 

Too many of the striving faithful in modern Adventism lost their way, not so long ago, through bitterness.  It is a path none dare traverse again.  It is a trap that will extinguish godly zeal, suffocate love for the erring, and obliterate the patient spirit which God’s Last Generation Christians must cultivate and possess (Rev. 14:12).

“When one clearly sees a duty, let him not presume to go to God with the prayer that he may be excused from performing it.  He should rather, with a humble, submissive spirit, ask for divine strength and wisdom to meet its claims.”

Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 441.

“And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

“Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother” (II Thess. 3:14-15).

Reflections on the limits of science, technology, and the human character made evident by the revival of the space exploration program.

A new online article claims Adventists should “cross the Rubicon” by rewriting our classic eschatology regarding the coming Sunday law and similar developments. But might such a choice replicate another historical vignette—that of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo?

Is this the paradox many hold it to be? Or do the inspired writings offer a simple explanation?

A recent article on a liberal Adventist website fabricates a false dilemma between the Bible and Ellen White regarding the classic Adventist investigative judgment doctrine. But the article’s case falls woefully short of both the Biblical evidence and the facts of Ellen White’s own teachings regarding this pivotal doctrine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

God’s heroes through the ages have risked everything, including their lives and those of their loved ones, for the sake of bearing public witness to Bible truth and the resulting contrast with error.  For people in the church today to hide in the shadows when rebuking wrongful teachings because they fear negative reputational or career consequences, is difficult if not impossible to justify. 

What God has inspired must take precedence over all other spiritual writings.  Once our minds are saturated with the former, we can peruse the latter with an alertness that enables us to see more clearly the difference between right and wrong, truth and error, even when the difference is subtle.

A recent article in a prominent denominational outlet challenges certain features of the classic Adventist construct known in recent times as Last Generation Theology. Are these challenges credible?

Whatever fears may ravage human hearts in these tumultuous times, those adhering to Holy Scripture can face the coming year with confidence.  God is still in control.  And until He has a people prepared to deliver His final warning, His mercy will continue to linger and the door of probation stay open.

“Above the hills of Bethlehem are gathered an innumerable throng of angels. They wait the signal to declare the glad news to the world. Had the leaders in Israel been true to their trust, they might have shared the joy of heralding the birth of Jesus. But now they are passed by.”

Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 47.

A recent controversy over a holiday display in Iowa’s state Capitol should cause Christians to pose the ultimate question to our own selves: Regardless of our profession, do we in fact belong to the synagogue of Satan?

Neither popular culture, traditional values, formal scholarship, spiritual fads, nor one’s preferred experiential comfort level can carry any weight with the true Christian, in particular those called to leadership.  As with King Zedekiah of old, despite his persistent disobedience to the prophetic voice, the inquiry of all true leaders in God’s church must be, “Is there any word from the Lord?” (Jer. 37:17).

Time has lingered through Inquisition and genocide, racial animus and economic injustice, gulags and global warming, calamities natural and unnatural, because the ultimate contrast between the two contending kingdoms in God’s universe remains to be demonstrated, ensuring once and for all the just and final extinction of rebels and rebellion.

A new appeal to reimagine the role of Ellen White in the church perpetuates the misunderstanding rampant among so-called “progressive” Adventists that it is possible to affirm one’s possession of the prophetic gift while simultaneously reserving the right to differ with a prophet’s counsel. But the Bible’s depiction of the gift of prophecy simply doesn’t allow for this option.