It was August 1950. The Korean War had been going on for more than a month now. Communist North Korean forces, like a juggernaut, steamrolled through South Korean defenses and seemed on the verge of a decisive victory. A mere five years after the end of World War II, Americans were weary of war, but the alarming growth of communism proved too threatening.
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 MoreGod is Love
God is love (1 John 4:8, King James Version). He is also all-powerful (Genesis 18:14; Luke 18:27; Revelation 19:6) and all-knowing (Psalm 139:2-6; Isaiah 40:13-14). Love inherently depends upon the presence of others and cannot be rightly revealed by one being alone. Love, when expressed in the presence of one, can only be directed to the self and would only produce pride, or self-love. Therefore, a God of love cannot exist alone.
Read MoreThe Waco Tragedy: 25 Years Later
This spring will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the siege and destruction of the Mount Carmel Center (sometimes called Ranch Apocalypse) in Waco, Texas, headquarters of the so-called Branch Davidians and their leader, one David Koresh. For those who aren’t aware or may not remember, the Branch Davidians were a splinter sect of the Shepherd’s Rod (or Davidian Seventh-day Adventist) movement, an offshoot of the Seventh-day Adventist Church since 1930.
Read MoreThe spiritual necessity of Church unity and Biblical authority to accomplish God's mission
The following is the keynote speech that Ted N.C. Wilson, president of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, gave at the 11th annual Global Leadership Summit, on Feb. 6, 2018, in Lisbon, Portugal.
Read MoreThis is an Apple!
Recently on CNN, a commercial has been running with various wording, with an apple in focus. It speaks of how whether the apple is viewed from the right or from the left, whether one insists with loud screams or capital letters that this is a banana instead, the fact still remains that “this is an apple.” The commercial ends with the simple phrase, FACTS FIRST.
Read MoreQuestions on Doctrine: Manifesto of the New Theology or Minor Aberration?
Just what is the problem with the 1957 book Questions on Doctrine? (1) Why all the fuss about a volume that most Adventists have probably never heard of, much less read? Those who have taken the time to read its pages might wonder what all the controversy is about. That is, unless they are aware of some significant factors surrounding its publication.
Read MoreFull Circle: My Experience With Adventist Boarding Schools
Sequestered in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by hills, sits an Adventist boarding school. There’s a guys’ dorm and a girls’ dorm, a cafeteria, a gymnasium, an administration building and a chapel and a spattering of a few other structures, huddled in a forest clearing.
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 MoreThey Arose in Phoenix
The long, arduous journey to Phoenix, Arizona, from our home in north Texas almost took all the energy out of me. The drive was supposed to take sixteen hours, but with the many stops as a young family of five needs on a long road trip, sixteen hours turned to twenty-three. But the long, tiring journey was worth it.
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 MoreThe True Meaning of the Stable
At this time of year, scenes and songs recounting our Lord’s birth in Bethlehem can be heard and witnessed almost everywhere. But how many of us have truly contemplated the meaning of that rude enclosure, those breathtakingly primitive facilities, into which the Second Person of the Godhead descended in coming to this earth?
Read MoreWeimar Godhead Series Videos
Pastor Kevin Paulson's series on the Godhead at Weimar during the weekend of December 15-16, 2017 is now available on Youtube. For your convenience, the videos are posted here. Feel free to share and discuss among your family and friends.
Read MoreSeries on the Godhead at Weimar Institute Dec. 15-16, 2017
The presentations will be given at Weimar Institute on the weekend of December 15-16, 2017. Please plan to join this important seminar on the topic of the Godhead. Invite your family and friends and especially those who have entertained anti-trinitarian sentiments.
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 MoreConfused About the Reformation
As Bible students and historians recount the events of half a millennium ago, when the hammer blows of a German monk on a church door sparked the movement that would split Christendom in two, it is imperative that we understand correctly what the issues were, and were not, in that rending conflict whose implications would prove so dramatic for Western civilization and for the world.
Read MoreWhat Years of Sickness Taught Me
It all started five months after my mom died. My family has had a very unfortunate history with autoimmune diseases. In 2002, my grandmother died of autoimmune liver cirrhosis, and in 2013 my mother also died due to autoimmune liver cirrhosis.
Read MoreWill the Real Protestants Please Stand Up?
The ever-growing threat of a joint union between the two largest sects of Christendom looms before us, five hundred years after an erstwhile Augustinian monk nailed a copy of his letter to the Archbishop of Mainz on the All Saint’s Church door in Wittenburg, Germany.
Read MoreThe Protest Continues: Applying the Reformation to Our Day
Tomorrow, the Bible-believing world will remember the pivotal courage of Martin Luther as he nailed the 95 Theses to the cathedral door in Wittenberg, Germany, thus igniting the Protestant Reformation.
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