by Jack Hoehn The Sabbath School Lesson 10 on Origins is not controversial and supports environmental stewardship. This teaching is true no matter what chronology of creation Adventists accept, so study your lesson and practice it. Part of environmental responsibility is care of the environment of your stomach, so let me share with […]
by Lawrence Downing Charles Scriven opined recently that if the Adventist Church does not shift toward a new kind of Adventism, “our church will go out like a spent candle. It’s a matter of time, but it will happen.” (Spectrum, Winter 2013, p. 3) Only time will tell if Scriven’s prognostication is correct. What is […]
by Monte Sahlin Should Adventists care who is selected as the next head of the Roman Catholic Church? Is anyone among the speculated possibilities more or less favorable to anything we care about? The answers to both those questions may be an immediate “no,” but there are larger issues here that inevitably connect with […]
by Mark Gutman No Sabbath School lesson or sermon or article can cover everything about its topic. Newspapers and radio and TV must choose some items to report and ignore most. Sometimes we benefit from noticing what was not reported. The Boston Marathon bombing that killed three (and injured another 282) has been covered extensively […]
by On May 4, 2013, the Anaheim Adventist Church hosted a Hymn Festival. Choirs from Orangewood Academy and San Diego Academy united to sing hymns from the Adventist Hymnal. In the introductory remarks, Orangewood Academy choir director James Woods stated that students have “discovered” the hymns in the Adventist Church Hymnal. “They love them,” he […]
by Ervin Taylor This is Part 12 of the summary of Dr. Wilbur’s book. It should be emphasized that all of the text in this series of blogs in bold font in the body of the text of the chapter summary has been kindly provided by Dr. Wilbur. If there are any of my own […]
by Ervin Taylor by Ervin Taylor October 30, 2013 The Adventist News Service (ANS) recently reported that delegates to the 2013 Annual Council voted to approve a change in the wording of Adventist Fundamental Belief #6 which deals with the nature of Creation. This change had been developed by a group known as the Fundamental […]
by Monte Sahlin At the recent annual meeting of the General Conference executive committee G. T. Ng, executive secretary of the Adventist world church, told church leaders that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is approaching 18 million members. The report was published by the Adventist Review. I will quote a few lines from the extensive report […]
By Danny Bell, November 5, 2013 It’s becoming more frequent. Churches that were once struggling and apparently dying are now being revived as a steady stream of recent immigrants floods into Australia and into our pews. Most of these immigrants are from countries where religion is part of their everyday life, not just something done […]
by Chris Barrett This blog is not about faith in the sense of having faith in a person or similar. It is about religious faith. Here's an example definition: “a strong belief (faith) in God or the doctrines of religion, based on a spiritual apprehension, rather than proof.” When I use the term “belief” […]
by Erv Taylor by Ervin Taylor, November 5, 2013 The following are comments on a statement of “The General Conference Executive Officers” issued as a kind of Adventist version of a Papal Encyclical, or perhaps what more accurately should be characterized as a Papal Bull. It was issued as a “Special Edition” of […]