I want to focus solely on how we use media in the church. We all know that radios and television are not evil of themselves.
Read MoreFinishing the work?
Mark this and mark it carefully. There is no plan greater than Jehovah's. Nothing is better than the instructions He has given.
Read MoreDictators and church unity
North Korea's recent claim that it tested a hydrogen bomb set off a firestorm of controversy around the world, and, according to government controlled media outlets, renewed a sense of nationalistic unity and pride among its citizens.
Read MoreDishonest pastors: does your church have one?
The recent passing of Robert Folkenberg (a retired GC president of the Adventist world church), reminded me of my time at Avondale and the unsettling events I witnessed as a theology student in the early 1990’s.
Read MoreThe timing of the Sabbath day
Do the Sabbath hours begin on Saturday morning? Recently a concerned individual wrote me regarding a website that promotes the idea that the Sabbath should be observed from Saturday morning until Sunday morning.
Read MoreResetting your spiritual default
Human beings are creatures of habit. We generally have an aversion to changing our habits of thinking and how we live our lives.
Read MoreAn epiphany
Don’t you love it when you’re reading something or looking at something you’ve seen many times and suddenly you see something new!
Read MoreAn end in itself
I’ve been carrying a pocketknife since I was 14. Not as a weapon, but as a useful tool that comes in handy in diverse circumstances in life—opening cans, cutting packaging, minor electrical work, loosening screws, cutting food and so on.
Read MoreSatan's masterpiece of deception
In this article we will be focusing on how the final scenes will come about and how Sabbath keepers will be brought onto the world stage.
Read MoreThe squeaky wheel gets the grease
I had had a problem with one of the wheels on my bike being wobbly, and I didn’t know how to fix it.
Read MoreConversion without drama
Attention and controversy has swirled of late around the conversion narrative told by a prominent candidate in the current U.S. presidential campaign.
Read MoreSelfies
I have a fallen nature and my first thoughts and actions are to defend and indulge self, to make life as easy as possible to live and enjoy. I have no need for God or, for that matter, anyone else, unless He or they can benefit me in my self-centeredness.
Read MoreBe God's balloon!
Several years ago my children went to a party that had a clown who made balloon art. Now, I’m sure that no one can go to college and take classes in balloon art, but this guy had everybody—even the adults—mesmerized with the different things he could make using balloons.
Read MoreAdventists on the Titanic
A recent article in a prominent church publication invites a serious misunderstanding of the faith-and-works issue as Scripture presents it.
Read MoreFinding the coin
When studying familiar passages such as the parables of Luke 15--the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the prodigal son--we risk falling into the trap of studying the Bible while already prejudiced to the conclusions drawn from the reading.
Read MoreApproaching another Minneapolis
When we read of what might have been experienced at the Minneapolis Conference in 1888 and during the years immediately following, we sense what a tragic loss it was to the church.
Read MorePUC President responds to Ryan Bell
In terms of the decision to disinvite you to campus, it was a decision that really did require moral courage and wisdom as I was well aware of how this decision would be perverted by some to create a negative firestorm on Social Media, for example.
Read MoreUnder the most intense scrutiny
I never dreamed I’d see the day when a Seventh-day Adventist would be a front-running presidential candidate.
Read MoreI remember Sabbath
Dare we even suggest that the Sabbath has lost its significance?
Read MoreIt's raining cats and dogs!
All this rain has got me thinking about what the Bible calls the “latter rain.” It’s exciting stuff, and you and I could be a part of it . . . if we wanted to be.
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