Yet today, both of these men have been aggressively de-platformed, cancelled, and silenced by the very church that they have given their lives to build up.
Read moreRon Kelly's Daughter Speaks About Her Father
I share all of this with you, because I am beyond appalled at the decision of the Michigan Conference to fire my father from the Village SDA Church.
Read moreChurch Authority and Conflict Resolution
The Church Manual limits the power of church authority, and functions like a bill of rights in the church, clarifying the obligations of members and adminstrators alike.
Read moreVillage Church Meets For The First Time Without Their Pastor
After Francis’ statement, Head Elder Tom Wilson stood up and made this clarification, “Pastor Kelly has been transitioned out of the state of Michigan (not just the Village Church).”
Read morePastor Ron Kelly is Fired by the Michigan Conference
Ron Kelly has handled himself very well in the aftermath of the Michigan Conference’s vendetta against Conrad Vine. He sought to be transparent and to resolve the situation through the proper channels. Today he was fired.
Read moreMutually Exclusive
This state of affairs brings to mind Rodney King's post trial plea: "Can't we all get along?" The reality is that there are many things in this life that will always remain mutually exclusive.
Read moreHail King Trump !!
America has no kings because she is a self-efficacious society of hard-working, intelligent, freedom lovers, and for this we are grateful this Thanksgiving weekend.
Read moreSDA Spring Breakers Descend on El Salvador
“Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest” (Mat. 9:37-38).
Read moreSorry, Tattoos are Dumb
Ever met your teenage self and thought, wow, you had excellent judgment? No, you haven’t. Now imagine being 80 years old with a saggy Tasmanian Devil on your bicep.
Read moreDid We Miss Something?
There was another aspect to Conrad’s sermon that that seems to have been passed over. Freedom of conscience. Free will to choose. The bedrock, the foundation of the present truths that we hold most dear as a Church.
Read moreMillennials Are Prospering in Amish Country
It sits far from any interstates and lacks urban centers. Roughly half of its 44,000 residents are Amish, part of a Christian community that eschews varying degrees of modern technology.
Read moreWO Still Being Pushed At Andrews University
I found the comment to be incredibly inappropriate. It is time for us as a Church to come together around Biblical fidelity, not to continue to stoke division over issues brought into the church from the secular culture and sexual revolution.
Read moreControversy Alert, My Personal Reflection on My Civic Duty of Voting
So here's my question: with the current social climate speeding towards perdition, should we stand aside and not say anything at all?
Read moreWhy I Cannot, and Will Not, Leave the Seventh-day Adventist Church
And I feel as though I too have been receiving the question, though of course in my heart and mind rather than audibly, “Will ye also go away?” to which I answer, “Lord, how can I? Where could I go?”
Read moreA Call To Rome!
What is there within the Papal church that the Seventh-day Adventist church needs to learn from, which is in total contrast to our Protestant foundation?
Read moreWho Will Come for Corn?
Like broken hearted Jacob in a far land, many devoted Adventists are broken over our churches but praying, for Josephs to rise again.
Read moreD’Sozo Camp Meeting 2024 Report (It's Pretty Good)
If more men in our church would stand boldly in the face of persecution to speak the truth, they would not be able to single out people like Dr. Vine and shut them down and silence the truth so easily.
Read moreReally, Reinder Bruinsma?
I have always been surprised by the Catholic Church's ability to show different faces depending on the circumstances and its interests. I have experienced this closely.
Read moreSurviving the Shipwreck
People don’t wander because they’re lost, they wander because they forget who they are. We are Adventists, the ones who didn’t fit in with Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists or Catholics.
Read moreOpen Letter to Elder Jim Micheff and Michigan Conference Officials
For you to now cancel Dr. Vine strikes many of us as collusion with the forces in this society that aim to abolish our religious and free-speech liberties and allow only voices that concur with the “anointed.”
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