A recent article on a liberal Adventist website fabricates a false dilemma between the Bible and Ellen White regarding the classic Adventist investigative judgment doctrine. But the article’s case falls woefully short of both the Biblical evidence and the facts of Ellen White’s own teachings regarding this pivotal doctrine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

God’s heroes through the ages have risked everything, including their lives and those of their loved ones, for the sake of bearing public witness to Bible truth and the resulting contrast with error.  For people in the church today to hide in the shadows when rebuking wrongful teachings because they fear negative reputational or career consequences, is difficult if not impossible to justify. 

What God has inspired must take precedence over all other spiritual writings.  Once our minds are saturated with the former, we can peruse the latter with an alertness that enables us to see more clearly the difference between right and wrong, truth and error, even when the difference is subtle.

A recent article in a prominent denominational outlet challenges certain features of the classic Adventist construct known in recent times as Last Generation Theology. Are these challenges credible?

Whatever fears may ravage human hearts in these tumultuous times, those adhering to Holy Scripture can face the coming year with confidence.  God is still in control.  And until He has a people prepared to deliver His final warning, His mercy will continue to linger and the door of probation stay open.

“Above the hills of Bethlehem are gathered an innumerable throng of angels. They wait the signal to declare the glad news to the world. Had the leaders in Israel been true to their trust, they might have shared the joy of heralding the birth of Jesus. But now they are passed by.”

Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 47.

A recent controversy over a holiday display in Iowa’s state Capitol should cause Christians to pose the ultimate question to our own selves: Regardless of our profession, do we in fact belong to the synagogue of Satan?

Neither popular culture, traditional values, formal scholarship, spiritual fads, nor one’s preferred experiential comfort level can carry any weight with the true Christian, in particular those called to leadership.  As with King Zedekiah of old, despite his persistent disobedience to the prophetic voice, the inquiry of all true leaders in God’s church must be, “Is there any word from the Lord?” (Jer. 37:17).

Time has lingered through Inquisition and genocide, racial animus and economic injustice, gulags and global warming, calamities natural and unnatural, because the ultimate contrast between the two contending kingdoms in God’s universe remains to be demonstrated, ensuring once and for all the just and final extinction of rebels and rebellion.

A new appeal to reimagine the role of Ellen White in the church perpetuates the misunderstanding rampant among so-called “progressive” Adventists that it is possible to affirm one’s possession of the prophetic gift while simultaneously reserving the right to differ with a prophet’s counsel. But the Bible’s depiction of the gift of prophecy simply doesn’t allow for this option.

Spiritualism continues to attract thousands, even professedly born-again Christians. And contrary to a recent article on a liberal Adventist website, such manifestations cannot all be discounted as mere human trickery.

The new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives claims his political philosophy is based on the Bible. But when we consult the pages of Scripture, it because clear he has overlooked much of what the Bible teaches regarding the relationship of church and state.

The present Middle East conflict has again excited interest in the role of Israel in the events of the last days and the overall divine purpose. What in fact does the Bible say?

The horror and tragedy now unfolding in Israel and Gaza have again proved the helplessness of humanity to make progress on its own where it truly counts.