God is the only One who can help us be conquerors in the battle with evil—without Him we are hopelessly lost in sin.
Ellen White’s repetitive insistence that First John 3:4 (“Sin is the transgression of the law”) is the only definition of sin found in Holy Scripture, is both consistent with the overall Biblical message and compellingly logical.
A recent book resurrects old allegations of historical inaccuracy regarding Ellen White’s recounting of Reformation history in certain chapters of The Great Controversy. Are these allegations credible?
Let us pray for and encourage our leaders to take a decisive though compassionate stand for the teachings of God’s Word relative to gender and sexuality, and to hold all accountable at every level for their adherence to the same. Nothing less is possible for the great end-time movement of whom God will one day soon declare, “Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus” (Rev. 14:12).
A religious movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation has come into American headlines recently, particularly with respect to the 2024 presidential election.
We don’t know what April 8, 2024 will bring. None can be sure whether the path of the pending solar eclipse over towns named Nineveh and Jonah is anything but a coincidence. And none can be sure when Ellen White’s prophecies of fireballs destroying buildings, in Nashville or elsewhere, will come to pass.
But at the bottom line, God isn’t waiting on natural or man-made disasters so that Jesus can come. Rather, He is waiting on the spiritual preparedness of His people, who through His grace will reproduce the character of Christ in their hearts and lives (I Thess. 5:23; II Peter 3:10-14; I John 3:2-3; Rev. 3:21; 12:17; 14:5,12).
Too many of the striving faithful in modern Adventism lost their way, not so long ago, through bitterness. It is a path none dare traverse again. It is a trap that will extinguish godly zeal, suffocate love for the erring, and obliterate the patient spirit which God’s Last Generation Christians must cultivate and possess (Rev. 14:12).
“When one clearly sees a duty, let him not presume to go to God with the prayer that he may be excused from performing it. He should rather, with a humble, submissive spirit, ask for divine strength and wisdom to meet its claims.”
Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 441.
“And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
“Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother” (II Thess. 3:14-15).
The concept of church discipline has to do with the ultimate restoration of human beings into the image of God.
Reflections on the limits of science, technology, and the human character made evident by the revival of the space exploration program.
There are those in contemporary Adventism who urge that doctrinal, moral, and ecclesiastical differences be transcended through “oneness in Christ.” But the Bible presents two visions of Christian oneness—one in John 17, the other in Isaiah 4. Which one will we embrace?