Elder Ted Wilson, president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists presents this stirring message on Sabbath morning, June 11th at the 61st General Conference Session in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Read MoreTHE CONSTITUTION, CONSCIENCE, AND VACCINES
How is the Adventist Christian supposed to work their way through the complex web of issues surrounding the vaccine, from constitutional and legal standards, to the moral and ethical issues, to where religious exemptions might apply, to how our pioneers viewed these questions?
Read MoreCause & Effect: PANDEMICS, ANIMAL ABUSE, HUMAN SUFFERING, AND YOU
Increases in global trade and smuggling have allowed more species to be marketed than ever before. Combine this with a rising affluent class and a capitalistic urge to buy anything novel that is offered, and you have a booming business based on death.
Read MoreCOVID-19 and the Moral Quarantine
We have entered a phase in modern history that is unprecedented. Yes, we've had dire crises before in this nation's history and in the world. But not to the extent whole economies would suffer this much. With massive social and economic shutdowns, the world is no longer the same.
Read MoreWe Have This Hope
Sadness grips me as I trace these lines. For the second time in a week, the world of fashion and television has been struck by the tragedy of a self-inflicted death. Earlier this week, Kate Spade—fashion designer, businesswoman, and founder of Kate Spade New York—was found dead in her Manhattan apartment by her housekeeper, hanged by her own hand.
Read MoreHealing the Nations Podcast (w/ Lemuel Sapian)
What role does the church have upon the government and what role does the government have in the church? Should the church be involved in legislating morality? In this episode, Pastor Lemuel Sapian shares his thoughts on the recent culture wars between secularists and Christians, the Johnson Amendment, and the principles of the Separation of Church and State, and why Seventh-day Adventists break from evangelical Christians in regards to partisan politics.
Read MoreGeneral Conference Issues Warning Against False Christ-Centeredness
To honor and exalt Jesus is the foundational commitment of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and undergirds its prophetic message expressed in the 28 Fundamental Beliefs. Salvation by Faith alone leading to a life of discipleship to Jesus is the goal of our mission. As we proclaim the three angels’ messages let us make sure that Christ stands at the center of all our activities and initiatives.
Read MoreYouth on the March
On March 24, 2018, hundreds of thousands of high school students, in America and throughout the world, marched in memory, solidarity, and protest as they honored their peers and mentors slain a scant five weeks earlier in the massacre at Marjory Stoneman-Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In certain places, like Wisconsin, the march would continue into the days to follow.
Read MoreHealing the Nations Podcast (w/ Dr. Eric Walsh): Episode 7
Episode 7 of Healing the Nations with Dr. Eric Walsh is now uploaded. Find out from Dr. Walsh what happened when sermons he preached was used against him to terminate his employment. The great personal cost he suffered and yet remained steadfast in his faith.
Read MoreThoughts, Prayers, and Action
In the wake of the most recent school shooting in the United States, in Parkland, Florida, survivors have voiced a sentiment that more and more has been heard in the aftermath of these tragedies—that thoughts and prayers are not enough.
Read MoreOf One Blood All Nations
On January 11, 2018, at a bipartisan meeting of Congressional leaders, the President of the United States openly reviled between one third and one half of the world’s population as presumably unworthy to enter his country, using a despicably vulgar expression not fit to be repeated.
Read MoreNew Podcast Available on Advindicate
The Healing of the Nations Podcast is now available for our audiences. Host Peter K. Chung who is a History educator presents a series on how the Gospel and principle of Religious Liberty found in our Three Angels' Messages can provide real world solutions for our dying planet. Journey with us as we confront issues of today and how we can a light in the darkness of the world.
Read MoreEvangelical Theology, Unconditional Forgiveness, and Public Scandal
During the U.S. presidential scandal of the late 1990s, Kenneth Woodward, religion editor of Newsweek magazine, wrote a column titled, “Sex, sin, and salvation”, in which he declared that understanding President Clinton’s moral foibles required an understanding of “Bill the Baptist”.
Read MoreLiving in the Age of Anxiety as Revealed in Google’s Big Data
I was surprised today with a new trend topic on Twitter: #prayfortheworld. People around the globe are praying for help, looking for hope and answers about what is happening in the world today: the hurricanes, earthquakes, and political tension.
Read MoreThe Patience of the Saints
The phrase is used twice in the book of Revelation. The first is with reference to the endurance of persecution by God’s people during the centuries of papal supremacy, culminating in the decapitation and eclipse of this apostate power at the close of 1,260 years (Rev. 13:5).
Read MoreA Response to AToday's Article on the Unity Symposium
On August 4, 2017, AToday published a review of the Scripture, Church Structure and the Path to Unity symposium. Hosted by the supporting ministry Secrets Unsealed, the symposium dealt with the issue of Church unity in the face of the ongoing crisis regarding Women's Ordination in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Read MoreTelltale Signs of Doctrinal Error
The ultimate measure of truth and error for classic Seventh-day Adventism is found in such Bible verses as the following:To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them (Isa. 8:20).
Read MoreSecrets Unsealed Symposium
Secrets Unsealed's August symposium, Scripture, Church Structure, and the Path to Unity, will take place from Tuesday, August 1, to Thursday, August 3. Go to http://www.secretsunsealed.org/ or to youtube.com/secretsunsealed to watch the presentations.
Read More“Alternative Facts,” Seventh-Day Adventists, And The Truth
The late U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously stated, “You are entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts.” Living in a world of alternative reality may be nothing new in the human experience, but it seems we presently find ourselves at a point in history where the capacity to live in a world of false assumptions and selective perception is uniquely possible, due in large measure to the cyber world and its unprecedented means of transmitting, blocking, and altering information.
Read MoreRecycled Myths about Youth and the Church
Some might wonder, aloud or otherwise, what business a man in his fifties has writing about youth-related issues. The answer may lie in the timeless wisdom of Solomon’s pronouncement that “the thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun” (Eccl. 1:9).
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