15 February 2023 | The crisis in Adventist eschatology is due to its reliance on Millerism’s faulty methodology and falsified prophetic predictions. Ellen White taught that Father Miller’s sole authority was Scripture and a concordance, that his interpretations were literal commonsense, and, most importantly, that God had originated his date-setting conclusions by repeated angelic guidance. […]
25 January 2023 | by Maury Jackson Paul wrote to Timothy, “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” But many Seventh-day Adventists struggle with fear: fear of end-time events, fear of not being saved, fear of rejection by God. Maury Jackson […]
25 January 2023 | by Bryan Ness Christianity, which heavily influenced Western culture, has been frequently blamed for being the cause of our current environmental crises. As acknowledged by Christians, when God created humans, He gave them dominion over all things: “God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill […]
18 January 2023 | Revelation for the 21st Century, part 2 Jan 21—Revelation’s Remnant and the World Religions. The most challenging doctrines of the SDA Church for evangelists have been the Sabbath, the state of the dead, and tithing, the so-called “testing truths.” These have become less challenging over the last twenty years or so. […]
22 December 2022 | This is our annual ATSS communion service. Our service will be shorter than usual. Please prepare your chosen bread and symbolic beverage before the service. We will begin with a devotional presented by sisters Taneshia Kerr and Cherri-Ann Farquharson, “Faith as an Experience.” Explains Cherri-Ann, Faith and fear cannot coexist. Some […]
13 December 2022 | Think about this for a moment: Satan is hardly mentioned in the Old Testament—just three times—and is present almost everywhere in the New Testament. Where does that emphasis on Satan come from? The Old Testament is silent about an afterlife: the dead know nothing, feel nothing, experience nothing. The New Testament […]
7 December 2022 | This week, Gerald Winslow considers the Creator’s invitation to wonder about creation. With the Galapagos Islands as the backdrop, Dr. Winslow develops the thesis that creation is God’s gift to be celebrated, not debated—that we have spent too much time arguing about the how and when of creation, and not enough about the why. The hope […]
30 November 2022 | If you know anything about the history of Adventism, then you know that this movement was conceived in discussion, and it was birthed in dialogue. It was breast-fed on argument, and it grew up in a debating hall. It’s not for nothing that the signature book of this movement for more […]
by Andreas Bochmann | originally broadcast 19 November 2022 | I still remember a time when divorce was not talked about very much in our church. At most, there were whispers behind closed doors. Divorce simply didn’t happen—and if it did, at least one person of the couple was disfellowshipped. Pastors who went through a […]
23 November 2022 | Spiritual abuse is a sensitive and largely neglected topic in the church. We are accustomed to talking about it in the context of cults, such as the infamous Waco group. For some, any criticism of the church seems like cutting the branch we are sitting on. So to even suggest that […]
24 November 2022 | The following ATSS PRESENTS programs are now on the Adventist Today YouTube channel. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Katrina Blue | 29 October 2022 Do you have family members, friends, neighbors, or co-workers who deny, or don’t know, or don’t seem to care, if God exists? How do you maintain […]
9 November 2022 | Read this essay in preparation for this Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar (ATSS) class. by Thandazani Mhlanga I find the story of Uzzah in 1 Chronicles 13:1-11 and 2 Samuel 6:1-8 still as puzzling and perplexing as the first day I heard it. After all, if it weren’t for Uzzah, the ark […]