According to both Scripture and the writings of Ellen White, the cleansing of the sanctuary in heaven and the cleansing of the soul temple on earth are clearly and irrevocably dependent on one another.
Read MoreCALLED TO BE FAITHFUL
Everyone has a place in God’s work and is called to be faithful in proclaiming God’s last-day message.
Read MoreREMEMBERING
This week the world remembered one of the most grotesque tragedies in human history. Its lessons dare not be forgotten, especially by Christians.
Read MoreBLANKET PARDONS
Within the past week, both the outgoing and incoming Presidents of the United States have issued blanket pardons to particular individuals. We aren’t going to discuss on this site the wisdom, justice, or lack thereof in any of these decisions. But as Bible-believing Seventh-day Adventist Christians we are constrained to ask, Does God issue pardons of this nature within the setting of Biblical salvation?
Read MoreBAPTIZED INTO WHAT?
Does the Bible support the baptizing of people “into Christ,” rather than into a church with a set of doctrines?
Read More"OH, LET US SEEK GOD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND, CALL UPON HIM WHILE HE IS NEAR!"
“Fires will break out unexpectedly, and no human effort will be able to quench them. The palaces of earth will be swept away in the fury of the flames. . . . The end is near, probation is closing! Oh, let us seek God while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near!”
Ellen G. White, Messages to Young People, pp. 89-90.
Read MorePARACHURCHES
“We cannot now step off the foundation that God has established. We cannot now enter into any new organization, for this would mean apostasy from the truth.”
Ellen G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 2, p. 390.
Read MoreDISOBEDIENCE TO PROPHETIC COUNSEL
The crux of the issue in a continuing controversy among the striving faithful in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Read MoreLIVING BY THE FATHER'S TIMING
When we learn to trust God and wait on Him, even when the situation seems impossible, we will, looking back, see that God’s way and God’s timing is always best.
Read MoreTHE INNKEEPER
“The story of Bethlehem is an exhaustless theme.”
Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 48.
Read MoreGRACE AND PERFECTION
Does God’s grace annul the necessity of reproducing the perfect character of Jesus here and now? Or does it make this perfection possible?
Read MoreA PLANET IN NEED
One of the most powerful ways of revealing love is by showing grace to others. Is there someone you know—a friend, family member, co-worker, someone at church, a neighbor, even a stranger—who needs extra grace from you today? It can sometimes be difficult, but let us remember our Lord’s promise, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness” (II Cor. 12:9).
Read MoreOUR MINISTRY'S CONTINUING NEEDS
As 2024 draws to a close, the world and the church continue to face crisis. And the needs of our ministry, material and otherwise, continue to persist.
Read MoreHAS THE LEOPARD CHANGED ITS SPOTS?
It is sad, though at times perhaps amusing, the way visceral resentment on the part of theologically liberal Adventists against our classic eschatology in general and Ellen White in particular has led to unbelievable ignorance of both contemporary and historical reality so far as Catholic teachings are concerned.
Read MoreHOW DID THE TARES GET IN?
We are all familiar with Jesus’ parable of the wheat and the tares. Most articles and discussions on this topic focus on how the wheat are to treat the tares. That is, they warn of the dangers of being too severe with alleged wrongdoers. But the main focus of this parable is not what we think and have often been taught.
Read MoreREMEMBERING RICHARD SAMUEL PAULSON (1921-2024)
On October 27, 2024, a scant twelve days after reaching the remarkable age of 103, my dear father, Richard Samuel Paulson, passed to his rest in the company of his loving family in Half Moon Bay, California.
Read MoreBEGIN WITH LOVE: UNDERSTANDING BIBLICAL SEXUALITY
Jesus came to set the captives free (see Luke 4:18), and this is the calling He gives us today. No one is beyond the reach of His healing hand. There are many beautiful passages giving hope and encouragement, pointing to a better, happier life—a life God intended, as outlined in His Word.
Read MoreGOD IS STILL ON THE THRONE
In the words of the psalmist, “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes” (Psalm 118:9). The message of Daniel 4:17 is still in the Bible—that “the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.” The clash of freedom lovers and would-be tyrants is ever subject to the jurisdiction of the King of Kings.
Read MoreSTEWARDS OF LIBERTY
In a few days, voters in the United States of America—if they haven’t voted already—will choose a new President and Vice-President, together with countless officials at varying levels of government. Once again it becomes us as Seventh-day Adventist Christians to assess our responsibility as citizens of this present world even as we prepare for citizenship in the world to come.
Read MoreTHE GOD OF TRANSPARENCY
One hundred and eighty years ago today, in fulfillment of the Bible’s longest time prophecy (Dan. 8:14), heaven’s tribunal assembled to commence review of the life records of those within the human family who have professed to be followers of the God of Scripture (Dan. 7:9-14; 12:1; Rev. 3:5).
Why would it take the Lord this long to finish the judgment of the righteous dead?
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