For some, involvement in a movement or organization is driven more by circumstance than genuine belief.

It should make no difference what label someone attaches to us, so long as we are true to God’s written counsel in our convictions (Isa. 8:20; Acts 17:11).

Recent challenges to the Bible-based, classic Adventist hope of character perfection in this life do despite both to the inspired text and the historical record.

Neither civil authorities nor others will take the warnings of Christians seriously regarding threats to religious freedom if Christians develop the reputation of spreading lies, fabrications, and exaggerations relative to such threats. Crying “Wolf!” for little or no reason may excite a political constituency, but it erodes the very credibility needed when genuine threats arise and warnings are raised concerning them.

In the continuing controversy in the Seventh-day Adventist Church over character perfection, the argument is often heard that those who believe such perfection can be achieved through heaven’s power during the Christian’s earthly life, base their position primarily if not exclusively on the writings of Ellen White rather than the Bible. Is this true?

What happens when moral or spiritual healing is experienced through the ministry of one who later falls into apostasy or egregious sin?

They were quite literally up against the wall. Nearly the entire chosen nation was now scattered among the heathen. All that was left was Jerusalem, her ramparts now under siege by the mightiest military machine the world had yet witnessed. Hope seemed to have fled from the stoutest hearts—-until the Lord of hosts took the field, sent His angel to overfly the enemy, and caused the boasting of Zion’s adversaries to cease.

A recent series of sermons, delivered by the president of a prominent supporting ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, seek to prepare the denomination for what the speaker holds to be the imminent rise of totalitarianism in the United States, which he thinks will be characterized by anti-Christian atheism, Marxism, and socialism. But is he, in fact, anticipating the wrong tyranny?

The emergence of this perverse, fantasy-spewing cult underscores again how such speculation has no place in the thinking and teachings of the Seventh-day Adventist message. and movement

Ellen White declares that “the United States is a land that has been under the special shield of the Omnipotent One” (7BC 975). We have seen fresh evidence during the past two weeks that this is true.

Pardons for criminal behavior in the non-spiritual realm don’t necessarily require a change of heart or the renunciation of the crime committed. But God’s plan of salvation is entirely different.

As Seventh-day Adventist Christians survey the past twelve months, viewing them first and foremost in the light of Bible truth and inspired prophecy, a number of lessons rise to our consciousness which merit our focus and contemplation as the old year recedes into history and the new unfolds before us.