All my life I’d been trying to gain the favor of friends and classmates by my words, choices, and actions—never finding true acceptance or approval. And here was Jesus, pursuing me and shining His favor on me in spite of my words, choices, and actions.
Read moreAll For Gaia: Earth Day In A Post Christian World
Just as in olden days, the Earth has become the focal point for worship. In Grecian times the supreme Earth deity was Gaia, also known as the Universal Mother.
Read moreNow California wants to Criminalize Christian Morality And Sanctification
We are actually facing serious moral questions and basic issues of legislative moral revolt that no previous generation of Christians had to face. And the terrain is changing so very quickly.
Read moreIt's The Culture, Stupid
Behold what Evolution hath wrought. If eons ago we winced at jazz, we now jerk and twitch to gospel rock. Our young girls previously came to church dressed; now they pose in the foyer for selfies in Lady Gaga body sheaths and briefs--candidates for the next #meToo.
Read moreThe Literal Week
So far as is known, in all the ancient world there was no seven-day calendar cycle except for the Jewish week.
Read moreWomen's Ordination is Actually a Moot Point
It should come as no surprise that where we’ve stubbornly followed the non-Biblical model (USA, western world), our church growth is either stagnate or declining.
Read moreGC ExCom Leaders Issue Statement About The One Project And Affirming our Faith
If your heart won’t allow you to affirm what the Seventh-day Adventist Church believes and teaches, feel free to not affirm (or virtually sign) this statement.
Read moreHow Spiritual Formation Almost Destroyed My Life
A dark force has taken our church by storm—a false revival, boldly wrapped in the promise of an intense worship experience. It has trapped pastors, Conference leaders and laity alike.
Read moreThe Real Significance of The Blood and the Water
Believe! Believe what?! John wants you to believe that Jesus was really and truly dead — the blood and the water is his evidence!
Read moreOperation Iceberg Issues Statement on Godhead Controversy
It has come to our attention that a Facebook Page bearing the name 'Operation Iceberg' is being used to promote an anti-trinitarian position. That is not us, and this is our unified statement.
Read moreThe Ford Question
For years in Seventh Day Adventist circles, mentioning the Ford Question instantly raised the theological skeletons of the past and the attending controversy that went with it.
Read moreForgiveness Shows Up At A Murder Trial
After threatening to shoot the girlfriend and her friend, he left the home and drove towards Tieton, Washington, armed with a pistol, and a long list of prior felonies in California.
Read moreWe Had Standards in 1945--How About Today?
In an age of shattered social ideals and standards, let our young men and women stand forth as representatives of purity and virtue!
Read moreAdventist Journey, 1972-Style
The publishers of “Adventist Journey" seem to be mentally living in 1972, pioneering women’s rights, fighting the evil patriarchy, and sticking it to the man.
Read moreA Look Back at Autumn Council 2017
What other policies and foundational beliefs can now be ignored with impunity? When will the Battle Creeks burn down? When will it be declared that God is not with these leaders?
Read moreWhy Satan Hesitates to Enforce the Mark
Satan has nothing to fear when he sees the same principles of sexual deviancy, inclusiveness and social justice promoted in our churches and institutions as it is in the world.
Read moreThe Bible Regarding Abortion
We repudiate as wrong and shameful the fact that for decades we have failed to stop the practice of abortion in some of our hospitals and clinics. For this we ask God’s forgiveness.
Read moreThe One Project in Sydney, Thoughts and Notes
I also believe that the One Project will go down in the annals of Adventism as the ultimate attempt to 'hipster-ise' what is essentially a conservative 19th Century religion living a 21st Century reality.
Read moreThe Ten Commandments and the Role of Government, Part 1
Jesus taught that there is a sphere that civil authorities legitimately regulate, but another and separate sphere that belongs to God alone, into which earthly princes have no right to intrude
Read moreThe Filthiness of Sin
Those verses are full of hope! There is a remedy to our struggles of the flesh and that remedy is found in Jesus Christ our Lord and the renewing of our mind.
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