Unless the General Conference in session embraces one or another of the doctrines identified by Ellen White as earmarks of Babylon, no inspired justification can possibly exist for separating from the worldwide Adventist body, and anyone who views unity with that body as merely optional is disregarding the inspired injunction that such unity is “an important and necessary act.”
Read MoreCREATIONS OLD AND NEW
One key difference between the first and second creations is the role of the Holy Spirit. In the beginning, the Spirit is shown hovering over the surface of the water as if beginning the imposition of order on a chaotic, formless Earth. Each of the messages to the churches in Revelation 2 and 3 is from Jesus, but Jesus points to the Holy Spirit at the conclusion of each message.
Read MoreNOT DETECTED
What my recent COVID test teaches regarding the investigative judgment and God’s eternal purpose in the controversy with evil.
Read MoreCONFORMITY WITHOUT CONVICTION
Few are likely to be convinced of the truth and value of our faith if we aren’t first convinced ourselves.
Read MoreACTING WISELY AT ALL TIMES
When we really grasp how much God loves us, it makes it easier to surrender our will to His all-knowing, all-wise, all-loving will for us. For to truly rely on Christ, we must stop relying on ourselves and surrender our will to Him, saying, “Lord, not my will, but Yours, be done” (see Luke 22:42).
Read MoreHAPPY NEW YEAR!
Let us enter upon the new year with our hearts cleansed from the defilement of selfishness and pride. Let us put away every sinful indulgence, and seek to become faithful, diligent learners in the school of Christ. A new year opens its unsullied pages before us. What shall we write upon them? . . .
Read MoreTHE EMPTY THRONE
Another lyrical tribute to our incarnate Lord. May this year’s Christmas, which spans the sacred hours, call our minds afresh to the true reason for the season!
Read MoreTORNADOES IN PROPHECY
“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28).
Read MoreWHAT IS LAST GENERATION THEOLOGY?
Is it just another partisan label dividing Adventists into warring factions? Perhaps, as some allege, a legalistic, guilt-inducing appendix to the gospel? Or is it in fact the Biblical basis and rationale for the existence, the message, and the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and the secret of her future glory?
Read MoreJESUS AND DOCTRINE: INSEPARABLY LINKED
Let’s face it: “Doctrine” is not a very popular word today. There are movements that want to minimize doctrine and emphasize Jesus only. For some, doctrine conjures up the idea of cold church creeds, stale traditions, boring discourses, and “proof-texting.”
Read MoreTHANKSGIVING AND THE GOSPEL
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).
THE LOSS OF TRUTH
Losing the truth in a secular context is devastating enough; losing it in the spiritual realm means the loss of eternity itself.
Read MoreNO TIME TO BE TIRED
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.
Read MoreGOD AND RELIGION: IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?
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.
Read MoreTHE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES AND THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH
What we are seeing today is a wake-up call, urging us to look to God’s Word and be ready for what’s coming. Only by relying completely on Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit will we be able to accomplish anything! God is preparing us for the outpouring of the latter rain, enabling us to proclaim with a loud voice the life-giving messages of the three angels.
Read MoreWHY MOST CONSPIRACY THEORIES LACK CREDIBILITY
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.
Read MoreTHE GOD OF EKRON STILL BECKONS
The fatal error of one of Israel’s kings is still being replicated today.
Read MoreTRUST GOD'S PROPHETIC WORD IN THE COMING IMPENDING CONFLICT
Sermon of Elder Ted Wilson at the Annual Council, October 9, 2021.
Read MoreREMEMBERING ERWIN GANE (1931-2021)
A tribute to one of God’s champions who stood for truth without fear or compromise in the face of fierce opposition.
Read MoreWHEN TRUSTING GOD ISN'T EASY
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.
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