Consequently there is no longer any geographical “holy place.” Where Jesus is, is the holy place, and He dwells among His people wherever they are (Isaiah 57:15, Matt 18:20).
Read moreJon Paulien and the End-Time Sunday Laws
Jon Paulien says that Ellen White is a “classical prophet” of the type whose prophecies are often conditional, and that her predictions regarding the end-time Sunday Law cannot be expected to come true as written. Is he right?
Read moreEvidence That God Is Active
And now those parallels have persuaded him and his that Trump will be the last president, and, as mentioned above, that Nashville has less than a month before disaster.
Read moreThe Difference Between Spiritual Abuse And Christian Courtesy
In persuasion, I seek to engage your thinking and judgment by giving you helpful data and warm encouragement. In manipulation I seek to bypass your thinking by pushing you to conform to my judgment.
Read moreDiscipline
I know youth and young adults that are warm, zealous and consecrated. I know many of them. And almost all of them were spanked at least occasionally.
Read moreEvaluating The Teachings of Tim Jennings
These views, woven into such a collection of profound insights into human nature, make for an extremely cogent parallel to the book Living Temple.
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 moreAdventist Adornment (part 2)
In the future we will be given mansions and crowns and a glorious existence. But today we are to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God.
Read moreAdventist Adornment (part 1)
Peter and Paul both affirm the value of women having a meek and quiet “spirit” that beautifies the inner self as being a reason for choosing internal adornment over external adornment.
Read moreThe Godhead (conclusion)
If you harmonize the statements another way, I will not fault you. If you make your way a criterion for faithfulness, or the message for our time, I will fault you gravely.
Read moreThe Godhead (part 2)
The life that Jesus had before coming to earth was not the Father’s life. It was his own life. And that is why He could pay for our sins. He was “self-existent.”
Read moreThe Godhead (part 1)
Those who read broadly in their writings know that the pioneers of the Adventist message were not trying to convert the mainstream church members to a non-trinitarian position.
Read moreA Zeal Not According to Knowledge
Daniel is a commandment-breaker. I am certain he doesn’t believe he is. But nonetheless, he accuses persons of tampering with Ellen White’s writings in such a way as to make them “spurious.”
Read moreA Flat Earth, The Recycled Theory That Refuses to Go Away
Do you know someone who is intrigued by the thought that the world might be flat (rather than being a sphere)? I do.
Read moreThe Sweetest Apostle
If you are like me, you don’t picture the aged John quite the same way you do the young man. The youth you associate with thunder; the elder with the calm spirit of the sage.
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