NATURAL DISASTERS AND THE DIVINE PURPOSE

Our hearts go out with deepest anguish to the victims of the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria, and to their suffering families and loved ones.  Whatever we can do to relieve their pain and assist them in their need, let us do.  But let us also keep our eyes on the multiplying signs that Jesus is getting ready to come, and by which He seeks to arouse inquiring and searching hearts of the ultimate, eternally-consequential choices that lie before them in these fleeting moments of lingering time.

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WAS DAVID IN A JUSTIFIED STATE DURING HIS SIN WITH BATHSHEBA?

“I was shown that it was when David was pure, and walking in the counsel of God, that God called him a man after His own heart.  When David departed from God, and stained his virtuous character by his crimes, he was no longer a man after God’s own heart.  God did not in the least degree justify him in his sins, but sent Nathan, His prophet, with dreadful denunciations to David because he had transgressed the commandment of the Lord.”

Ellen G. White, Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 1, p. 379

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REMEMBERING KAY PRIEBE (1942-2022)

Kay Yvonne Buzzard Priebe, wife of Amazing Facts evangelist, revivalist, and Adventist theologian Dennis E. Priebe, passed to her rest on November 21, 2022. She and Dennis had been married 58 years. Her memorial service will be held at the Fairmont Seventh-day Adventist Church in Lodi, California, on January 21, 2023, at 3 p.m. Those desiring to watch the service online may do so at https://www.youtube.com/@fairmontsdachurch1595/streams

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PROMINENT LECTURERS TAKE AIM AT LAST GENERATION THEOLOGY, PART 6

This is the sixth and final installment of our series responding to the lectures delivered at the North American Division ministerial meeting in June 2022 in Lexington, Kentucky, in which the cluster of teachings known as Last Generation Theology were conspicuously and publicly challenged.  This installment will focus on the misrepresentation of the teachings of M.L. Andreasen by one of the lecturers in question, and will offer some final thoughts on the controversy in general.

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PROMINENT LECTURERS TAKE AIM AT LAST GENERATION THEOLOGY, PART 5

This is the fifth installment of our series responding to the lectures delivered at the North American Division ministerial meeting in June 2022 in Lexington, Kentucky, in which the cluster of teachings known as Last Generation Theology were conspicuously and publicly challenged.  This installment will focus on the lectures in question relative to the great controversy and the vindication of God’s character.

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PROMINENT LECTURERS TAKE AIM AT LAST GENERATION THEOLOGY, PART 4

This is the fourth installment of our series responding to the lectures delivered at the North American Division ministerial meeting in June 2022 in Lexington, Kentucky, in which the cluster of teachings known as Last Generation Theology were challenged. This installment will focus on the lectures in question relative to the meaning of character perfection as defined in Scripture and the writings of the Spirit of Prophecy.

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IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN

Principle should always stand supreme in the political choices of the Christian. On this basis I would like to identify five (5) principles which, among others, should guide Seventh-day Adventists in America who have yet to participate in the pending midterm elections in our country:

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