by TJ Sands | 13 February 2019 | I am coming across the idea more and more that love is fleeting. That love doesn’t last, and it definitely doesn’t last as long as we would like. But is it true? Love and Money In the month of February (especially during the days leading up to […]
by Arthur Klym | 12 February 2019 | My earliest memories of public prayers, and hence the model I used when I learned to pray, included a phrase nearly as ubiquitous as “In Jesus name, amen.” It may sound strange to the ear of recent generations of Seventh-day Adventist youth, but to the children of […]
Melissa Brotton | 10 Sunday 2019 | “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. 2 Chronicles 16:9 NKJV There is a way to hear God, we are told in Scripture. Psalmists such as David, […]
by Erv Taylor | 5 February 2019 | In his book, A Brief History of Time, Nobel Prize laureate, the late noted British physicist, Stephen Hawking, related one of the versions of a widely quoted story which many of us may already have read or heard: “A well-known scientist delivered a public lecture on astronomy. […]
by Dr. Sydney Freeman, Jr. | 6 February 2019 | Earlier this year as I was checking my Facebook statuses, I saw that a colleague of mine had posted a message about the need to study the U.S. presidency of Andrew Johnson in light of our current political and societal climate. Johnson had previously served […]
by Loren Seibold | 6 February 2019 | Read Part 1 here. Theologically, we Seventh-day Adventists are acceptably Protestant. The whole first half of The Great Controversy, arguably our most defining book, celebrates the Reformation. Most of us could say all but a line of the Apostles’ Creed without flinching—and all of it if we […]
By Loren Seibold | 5 February 2019 | Some years ago a friend of mine, raised and educated in the Seventh-day Adventist church, revealed to his parents that he was joining a church of another denomination. It is important for you to understand that he wasn’t becoming a spiritualist or a Scientologist or even a […]
4 February 2019 | I didn’t want to date him. But a simple “no” didn’t stop him from asking me out. Over the course of the next three months he pursued me hard—flattery, gifts, big gestures—all to prove his interest in me. “He’s a good Christian man,” our friends said. “He’s involved in the church. […]
by Sonja DeWitt | 2 February 2019 | There’s a powerful conservative Christian movement in this country which finds the idea of a theocracy powerfully attractive. Imagine: a government like ancient Israel’s, with God directly in charge, favoring his chosen people with blessing and prosperity and cursing their enemies with dire punishments. A righteous nation […]
By John McLarty | 1 February 2019 | The December 2018 Ministry Magazine carried an article by Sven Östring, “Our Miraculous Planet Earth.” Östring makes the astonishing claim that . . . Genesis 1:1–31 describes the creation ex nihilo of our planet Earth and its subspace in six literal days. This means that our planet […]
By Marvin Moore | 31 January 2019 | In an article that was posted on the Adventist Today website on December 7, 2018, Reinder Bruinsma argues that the Adventist teaching of end-time Sunday laws is becoming increasingly implausible. Sunday laws were being enforced in the United States in Ellen White’s day, especially in the Southern […]
by André Reis | 29 January 2019 | Adventist scholars have long debated whether the Old Testament background for Rev 4–5 is the inauguration of the earthly sanctuary or the Day of Atonement. The implications of this are not unimportant for Adventist historicists who see Jesus initiating his Day of Atonement ministry in 1844 rather […]