Some suggestions for year end giving and beyond for responsible and concerned Adventists. by Jack Hoehn, November 10, 2015: Those who love the Seventh-day Adventist Church and wish to see it prosper in its God-given mission to spread the gospel and prepare people for the second coming of Jesus are looking for ways to support […]
by Loren Seibold, November 6, 2015. I’ve been to a lot of church meetings. But there are none that compare to the marathon business sessions that happen at the Seventh-day Adventist World Headquarters at 12501 Old Columbia Pike. They can be a bit of an ordeal: this latest one stretched over 8 days. Like all business […]
by Stephen Foster, November 4, 2015: The amazingly under-told story in this Carson saga and how Adventists and Adventism are now being discussed and perceived, particularly by one of Carson’s competitors for the GOP (Republican) nomination, is that Retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Barry Black, PhD. has been serving with distinction as the chaplain of […]
By Loren Seibold, November 3, 2015: On Monday (Nov. 2) the Adventist denomination’s North American Division (NAD) executive committee approved, by a not-unanimous but still very strong vote, a document entitled “Statement on Human Sexuality.” In spite of the title, the subject was not all of human sexuality, but homosexuality and our relationship as […]
by Jack Hoehn, October 28, 2015: Jack retells a story about an Advent Prophecy in the Pacific Northwest. I live on the Columbia Plateau. The Snake River joins the Columbia River not far from my town, and then flows in quiet majesty to the Pacific Ocean 300 miles away. This Plateau, formed from volcanos in […]
by Ervin Taylor, October 27, 2015: For those interested in the current theological debates now raging inside corporate Adventism, the Adventist Review (AR) is an important source of at least one side of the various contested points of view. Currently, the editorial opinion and most stories published in the AR reflect the party line of […]
by Harry Banks, October 25, 2015: John relates a prayer that Jesus uttered, less than 24 hours before his death on the cross, for the benefit of those his Father had given him. It intrigues me that in this prayer Jesus refers to his disciples as “those you have given him” (referring to himself in […]
By Dr. Mark A. McCleary, October 20, 2015: Recently, the Liberty Seventh-day Adventist Church commissioned a committee to research the issue of preparing, serving, eating or allowing meat products on church property. As the pastor, I thought it not robbery to do my own research of this topic. I am not a member of the […]
by Larry Downing, October 1, 2015: Some months ago a friend told me he had been invited by the North America Division (NAD) to serve as a participant on a committee that had been appointed to address the state of the churches in North America. He told me that he had been informed that […]
by Reinder Bruinsma, October 1, 2015: In my last blog I suggested that many of the things we refer to as “fundamental” are not really so very “fundamental.” I referred, among other things, to the 28 so-called Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. I asked the question: How in the world can 28 points […]
by Raj Attiken, September 30, 2015: The attention that Pope Francis received from Americans last week was simply staggering. By any and all standards, the Pope “stole the show” wherever he went during his six-day visit to the United States that ended on Sunday. Even the U.S. presidential candidates could not stir up a circus […]
by Raj Attiken, September 17, 2015: Most Christian churches are small. More Christians, however, worship in large churches. According to a recent National Congregational Study done by Duke University, 43% of churches in the United States have fewer than fifty adults and children attending, and 67% have 100 or less.[i] These are generally classified as […]