Over time, an organization can become a complex multi-layered structure that limits efficiency and slows down decision making. We call that a bureaucracy.
Read moreMission or Maintenance?
To be hot for Christ, means to be charged for his service.—not after a lengthy consultation with Risk Management and the Church Manual, but by the conviction the Holy Spirit places on your heart.
Read moreThe Church May Appear as About to Fall But it Does Not Fall . . .
This is most significant. The “church” that may appear as about to fall is a “remnant” (her own words) that is present at the time of the imposition of Sunday laws.
Read moreExchanging Truth for Lies
Puberty can blur the pages of Scripture. So can willful blindness by adults who think that rather than discussing God’s holy sexuality and His intentions, we’ll all somehow find our way.
Read moreRon Kelly and the Future of Adventist Mission
What do I tell my conservative leaning young adult friends who felt that Village Church and Pastor Kelly were a lifeline to a denomination that they felt viewed them as discardable? “Toe the line, or get out!” ??
Read moreThe Parable of the Horse: A call for Christian Empathy
In our political enthusiasms, are we exercising Christian humility appropriate to our finite understanding?
Read moreWhy Did God Make Men ?!?
She said, with great frustration. “Why did God make men?!?!!?” Her husband stood over by their minivan with his head down, pretending to be fiddling with the gas door flap. He was embarrassed.
Read moreHow The Roman Church Handles Heretics
I find it alarming that we, as a world church, are not even giving those we deem as potential threats to unity of the body of Christ the opportunity to defend their position—like the Church of Rome reluctantly did during the dark ages.
Read moreBreaking Down Barriers: The Call to End Racial Separation in the Church
However, as society has progressed and barriers to racial integration have diminished, the continuation of these divisions within the church has become increasingly untenable.
Read moreOffender for a Word: Is Conrad Vine a Heretic?
Conrad Vine’s message, then, did not contradict God’s promise through Ellen White. Vine stands in a long line of faithful servants of God who have risked their reputations and more to call out sin within the church. This is one of the means by which God prevents His church from falling.
Read moreADRA President Michael Kruger Will Step Down on April 1
Kruger will be taking on a new role as Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Adventist Healthcare White Oak in Calverton, MD.
Read moreNationalism, Imperialism & Liberty of Conscience (Part 2)
Those that work to undermine the nation states are aiding and abetting Satan's move to bring the world under a centralized global regime.
Read moreNationalism, Imperialism & Liberty of Conscience (Part 1)
Something very interesting happens here. Instead of destroying the world as He had previously, God dismantles Satan's global empire by confounding the languages and establishing the nations of the Earth.
Read moreAn Open Letter to Church Leaders
I am a lifelong Seventh-day Adventist, the grandson of a Seventh-day Adventist minister, A.D. McKee. I have always believed the Seventh-day Adventist message and I believe it now more than ever.
Read moreWhy the Liberty Appeal?
If we fail to preach liberty of conscience, including a free-will choice to accept righteousness by faith, we lose the power of the third angel’s message, and instead, concede to the coercive methods of the beast.
Read moreMy Positive Experience With Adventists in Guatemala
Worldly influences to a certain degree have been kept out of the church compared to many churches in the States and abroad. People are hungry for Bible truth.
Read moreThere is a Secret Adventist Professional Ministers Facebook Page
Many pastors come into the group with fairly conservative ideals, but get bullied mercilessly—mocked by group members who no longer feel it is appropriate to hold to Adventist standards.
Read moreStudent Exposes Unbiblical Teaching at Andrews University
I am grieved that a spurious kind of Adventist education is being offered at Andrews University in which so many foundational teachings are brought into question in the minds of the young.
Read moreDear Mrs. Dee: The Mountains are Calling
Soon the truth surfaced – racism – and Mrs. Dee’s husband perched up on his seat angrily. Since it was the proverbial elephant in the room we were now in a conversational impasse.
Read moreLament From an Adventist Boomer
Our ‘Liberty’ leaders have invited the godless leftist camel into the church’s tent, while they gaze out the back of the tent with a telescope toward a virtually invisible ‘Christian Nationalist’ chimera.
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