In his final prayer for Israel, King David revealed a core principle of Biblical righteousness by faith and the ultimate reason for the giving of thanks:

”But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of Thee, and of Thine own have we given Thee” (I Chron. 29:14).

Losing the truth in a secular context is devastating enough; losing it in the spiritual realm means the loss of eternity itself.

The coming months and years will demand more from the striving faithful in the Seventh-day Adventist Church than has ever been demanded from the consecrated of any era. But the keeping power of our God will more than equal the intensity of the conflict.

If religion is understood as a system in which right and wrong are objectively spelled out, a system in which wholehearted, divinely-empowered conformity to the right and wholehearted, divinely-empowered rejection of the wrong is held to be the imperative determiner of one’s ultimate destiny, then the God of the Bible is indeed a religious God, not an open-ended, postmodern accommodator of everyone’s chosen ways.

Motives of physical survival and the promise of fame and fortune in the exposure of falsehood and scandal will nearly always outweigh the benefits of complicit silence.

The fatal error of one of Israel’s kings is still being replicated today.

A tribute to one of God’s champions who stood for truth without fear or compromise in the face of fierce opposition.

Only an all-knowing God, who understands the strengths, weaknesses, and character potential of every heart (I Kings 8:39), can be trusted to permit fallible mortals to experience weal, woe, and varied blendings thereof, proportioned in just the right manner so as to develop godly strength and thus bear wisely both the trials and the triumphs of life.

Some years ago, in the secular political world, there was talk of “bridges to nowhere.” But perhaps this metaphor applies as much to the spiritual realm as elsewhere.

Toward the end of my third month of formal ministry, I became an eyewitness to the event that would change a generation. Twenty years later, it is time to reflect on some of its notable lessons.

A recent article by a prominent denominational scholar voices again the popular claim that Christians are saved solely by the work of Christ outside of the believer, and that while His work inside the believer is necessary and important, it doesn’t save us

How are we to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate political discourse in the public witness of the church and its members?