by Trudy J. Morgan-Cole Thirty years ago, I sat in a high school Algebra class, only vaguely understanding about the concepts our dedicated teacher was trying to impress upon us. As he asked us question after question only to be met by blank stares, his frustration level rose. Holding his copy of Using Advanced […]
by Ron Gladden If you’re a speaker, you know how I felt. Everyone pigged out on high-carb entrees topped off with an immoral mass of desert, then slumped glassy-eyed and foggy-brained into soft chairs. My assignment? To rouse them back to consciousness and to inspire them with the power and priority of the local […]
by Mark Gutman When he's judged, let the verdict be "Guilty," and when he prays, let his prayer turn to sin. Give him a short life, and give his job to somebody else. Make orphans of his children, dress his wife in widow's weeds; Turn his children into begging street urchins, evicted from their […]
by Ervin Taylor Here are two quotes: “Science is based on nothing more than the understanding of man. Man is flawed, and our understanding is limited . . . That's the real issue; man's theories vs. the Word of God.” “All theological and scientific understandings are based on the understanding of humans. Humans are flawed […]
by Nathan Brown Sabbath is a gift—a day for many things—but we miss something of Sabbath when we too often fill it with busy-ness. The poignancy of Sabbath is found when it allows for some emptying and emptiness. While celebrating God’s presence, we should also allow ourselves to feel something of His absence, even if […]
by Dr. Jack Hoehn Devilish Thinking? Former GC Theologian Ed Zinke writes a curious sort of Devil-may-or-may-not -care article in the Adventist Review titled “Does the Devil Care?” Now when I knew Ed as a classmate in religion classes at Pacific Union College he was always a serious theology student, and in later life has […]
by Debbonnaire Kovacs My husband, an expert gardener, used to have trouble with Jesus' statement in John 12:24 that unless a grain of wheat dies, it won't produce fruit. "That doesn't make sense!" he said. "A grain of wheat won't produce any fruit at all if it dies!" He had not grown up going to […]
by Ervin Taylor Just when one might have thought that my good friend, Clifford Goldstein, had decided that it was in his own best interest to write on topics about which he is better informed, he has returned—yet again—to one of his favorite subjects: biological evolution. He is like a moth attracted to a flame […]
by Stephen Foster Does anybody continue to believe that things are not lining up according to prophecy? Of course, there is nothing resembling unanimity of opinion among our readers as to what is lining up, or how prophecy is in the process of being fulfilled. Let me take this opportunity to again remind some of […]
by Herbert Douglass Seventh-day Adventists are always one generation away from oblivion. Not that they should cease existing but that they could lose the fire of purpose and mission that inspired their founders for 160 years. They could fall prey to simply doing a lot of activity without the reason for its existence. Seventh-day Adventists […]
by Nathan Brown The One Project gathering in Seattle last month [www.the1project.org] may have been the second most inspiring, encouraging, uplifting of such events that I have been privileged to be part of. I applaud and support the impulse behind this movement—Jesus. All.—and I was excited to be able to attend the gathering as part […]
by Cindy Tutsch And he swore an oath in the name of the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it. Who created the earth? Who spoke creation into existence? (Heb 1, Col 1, John 1) Here […]