“Joshua had received the promise that God would surely overthrow these enemies of Israel, yet he put forth as earnest effort as though success depended upon the armies of Israel alone. He did all that human energy could do, and then he cried in faith for divine aid. The secret of success is the union of divine power with human effort.”

Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 509.

Whether we like it or not, we are at war. That war is the great controversy between Christ and Satan. And in war, weapons are needed. But the only weapons available to the true Christian are those authorized by God in His Word (Eph. 6:17; Heb. 4:12).

The U.S. Supreme Court term just past has gone far in establishing the principle predicted long ago by Ellen White as the ultimate portent of papal triumph in America: “that the church may employ or control the power of the state” (The Great Controversy, p. 581).

Dr. C. Raymond Holmes, a former minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America who became a Seventh-day Adventist in 1971, passed to his rest in the early morning of June 16, 2022, while conducting a seminar at the annual Michigan Conference camp meeting.

No secular political ideology or agenda, no allegiance to a secular political constituency, can be permitted to distract the focus and pervert the principles of God’s kingdom. The Word of God must reign supreme in the agenda and purposes of the church.

“Not one cloud has fallen upon the church that God has not prepared for; not one opposing force has risen to counterwork the work of God but He has foreseen. All has taken place as He has predicted through His prophets.”

Ellen G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 2, p. 108.

As delegates from throughout the world assemble for the 2022 General Conference session, we ask that traveling mercies be granted to them all as they travel to St. Louis, Missouri. We invite Your sacred presence into this solemn and pivotal gathering of Revelation’s end-time remnant.

In a news cycle dominated by gun violence and reports of sexual abuse by spiritual leaders, it is time to remind ourselves yet again that the most monstrous of evils nearly always start small, and that only by embracing God’s zero-tolerance policy for transgression can God’s creatures be assured that such horrors as we have lately seen will never happen again.

Did Ellen White consider the Apocrypha to be part of God’s Word?

The near-miraculous landing of a passenger-turned-pilot with no flying experience offers poignant lessons to God’s people facing the final crisis.

Critics of the classic Adventist investigative judgment doctrine have long questioned why God needs such a procedure, since He already knows everything. But those who raise such objections fail to consider the nature of God’s judicial process as portrayed in key segments of the Bible story.

The release of Trevor Reed from a three-year-captivity reminds us of the Bible’s promise of freedom from a captivity far worse.

The present writer has recently discovered an Ellen White statement which could prove a game-changer in the church’s continuing discussions regarding the human nature of Christ.