by Melody Tan | 29 December 2018 | I remember the day I realized I had fully accepted Jesus into my life, 20 years ago. It was a day filled with so much joy and peace. I had given my life up to God, which meant that He could do whatever He wanted with it […]
by Steve Case | 26 December 2018 | Seventh-day Adventists face a conundrum. Our pioneers emphasized “Present Truth”[1] when we officially became a church in the second half of the 19th century. Present Truth meant truth pertinent to right now—a front-burner topic or issue. How long does Present Truth continue on the front-burner? Moving truth […]
by Steven Siciliano | 24 December 2017 | The phrase seems incongruous at best; scandalous or even offensive at worst. But Jesus, after all, was a Jew. The meaning of his story arises out of a worldview steeped in and shaped by the Hebrew scriptures. The familiar carols and scripture quotes that fill the air […]
By TJ Sands | 24 December 2018 | Within the Seventh-day Adventist church there has been much emphasis placed on the concept of spiritual war. War started in heaven between Christ and Satan, and now that war has moved to this earth. That is the root of the Great Controversy theme. Over the last number […]
By Loren Seibold | 22 December 2018 | A few months ago I had the privilege of being at the cutting edge of a new discovery in biblical theology. I realized that I had always—erroneously, it turns out—assumed that when the Bible uses the word “man” or the male pronoun, it refers to both men […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 16 December 2018 | You may be surprised to learn that Marxism[1] (encompassing elements of both socialism[2] and communism[3]) actually stems from biblical-Christian ideals. Moreover, in drawing upon these biblical ideals, Karl Marx’s observations about our modern consumer-driven capitalist[4] existence remain essentially correct, even 170 years after the Communist Manifesto and […]
by Christopher C. Thompson | 14 December 2018 | I have recently realized that I am very weary of Pharisees. I wish that Pharisees were simply a thing of the past, but the ever-present reality is that Pharisees are still patrolling the pews of any given church where you may find yourself on any given […]
By Loren Seibold and Monte Sahlin | 13 December 2018 | In a private conversation with a member of the North American Division (NAD) committee during the annual meeting in November, we were talking (as was everyone at the time) about the “compliance” document voted by the General Conference Executive Committee and the subsequent responses […]
When a colleague and I wrote and submitted to Adventist Today the piece entitled “A New Interpretation of the Little Horn of Daniel 7,” we knew that we might be seen (as Zechariah once said of Israel’s enemies) as poking God’s church in the eye. We weren’t exactly sure what shape the response would take—whether […]
The Sabbath is beautiful in concept, but like fine china sometimes seems fragile and we are advised to take care not to break it. But unlike breakable china or crystal the Sabbath remains completely indestructible. by Jack Hoehn | December 9, 2018 | If there is one unique thing about Seventh-day Adventists among Christians it […]
By Loren Seibold | 10 December 2018 | Had someone 40 years ago assigned to me the part of futurist, near the top of the list of things I wouldn’t have predicted would be the widespread popularity of tattoos. In my youth, skin art was associated with roustabouts in dockside bars, not educated professionals in […]
Richard W. Coffen | 10 December 2018 | 11:45 a.m. Thursday, November 15—Long lines jutted from checkouts. I pulled in behind lane 9. Ahead stood a well-dressed, well-coifed lady. Well below the median age of 72.2[1] for us retirees in Green Valley! Ms. Anonymous placed a few items onto the conveyor belt—two boxed toys, Christmas […]