Fear is an emotion; a negative emotion.  It divides rather than unite.  When Adam and Eve sinned, fear entered, and this fear caused them to hide from God. 

The local churches would be provided two weeks for consideration and convening the business meeting. The process could then provide a decision in less than two months being based on the complete body of Christ instead of a select few.

What does this have to do with Sunday laws?   The connection is considerably stronger than the Project 2025 proposal to encourage employers to accommodate employees who worship on either Sunday or Saturday.

I suggest ADRA uses this opportunity for a sustained period of introspection, and look for a way to wait on tables (Acts 6:2) that doesn't include feeding at a government hog trough.  

Will God pour out His Spirit upon a divided church? The question many in the church have is, will the next GC Session end with the church still divided over WO and other issues?  What will it take to unite us?

At the end of the disputation, the council ruled that Zwingli was in the right, and that all unbaptized infants were to receive baptism within 8 days, or their parents were to be banished from Zürich.

Kingly power has been wielded against both the elders and the congregation. And now, many are left hurting. Two men of God have been wronged, and their families suffer alongside them.

It is imperative that we church members let our voices be heard and cry out openly about the abuse of power that has taken place in our conference.

The modern man finds himself adrift in a sea of confusion, emasculated by a culture that has declared war on masculinity..

The ramifications of that excommunication were brutal to our family.  However, the anguish that was caused by the loss of all we knew and held dear God was able to use for good.

Over time, an organization can become a complex multi-layered structure that limits efficiency and slows down decision making.  We call that a bureaucracy.

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.

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.

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.

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!” ??

In our political enthusiasms, are we exercising Christian humility appropriate to our finite understanding?

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.

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. 

However, as society has progressed and barriers to racial integration have diminished, the continuation of these divisions within the church has become increasingly untenable.

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.

Kruger will be taking on a new role as Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Adventist Healthcare White Oak in Calverton, MD.

Those that work to undermine the nation states are aiding and abetting Satan's move to bring the world under a centralized global regime.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.