On Thursday, October 28, 2021, the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Theological Seminary, in Berrien Springs, MI, USA, held a meeting in which they persisted in their advocacy of women's ordination.
Read moreSome New Thoughts On Biblical Male Leadership
In 1 Timothy 2:12, the Apostle Paul says “I suffer not a woman to teach (didasko), or usurp authority over a man.” This is fascinating. There is a whole structure on teaching in the New Testament. The term most commonly used is didasko.
Read moreWomen Elders Vote Is a Step Away from the Bible
To continue the practice of ordaining women as elders, just now, when God’s church has opportunity to be a voice for the kingdom instead of the culture, is to wave the white-flag of surrender.
Read moreWomen’s Ordination, the San Antonio Compromise, and the Adventist Slide into the LGBTQ Morass (Part 3)
The problem with the social justice platform of the progressive wing of Adventism is that it is more beholden to the philosophies and ideologies of contemporary society than it is to the authority of Scripture.
Read moreWomen’s Ordination, the San Antonio Compromise (Part 2)
Given the theological equivalence of pastors and elders, why did our world church administrators neglect to deal with the question of whether or not, on the basis of Scripture, women may be ordained as elders?
Read moreWomen’s Ordination, the San Antonio Compromise (Part 1)
The NAD’s strategy to place as many women as possible into pastoral ministry will set the stage for a move toward individualism and congregationalism within its own territory.
Read moreBeth Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood—Kirkpatrick Reacts
I’m looking at Barr’s book because some members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have been attempting to introduce the practice of women’s ordination (WO) to the gospel ministry.
Read moreHow I Escaped the Cult of Social Justice
You can look at all the other characteristics of a cult and see that it lines up with a lot of those. I mean, you're not allowed to question SJW dogma. There is a pressure to isolate yourself from people who are ‘non-believers.’
Read moreAn Analysis of The NAD's Justice And Racial Equality Initiative
The ‘Justice’ League
Joining social protests leads you into a spiral of political reaction that arouses resentment, hatred and anger, and leads people to stop focusing on Jesus and a better world to come.
Read moreWestern Culture Working Feverishly To Stamp Out The Threat Of Masculinity
For the last two fortnights, the benighted Coronavirus has taken hold of England, interrupting not only our glorious way of life, but the Queen’s birthday gun salute itself. No great loss, there.
Read moreCourage In The Netherlands (Updated)
All who dare resist a corrupted system will be maimed and crushed. But we can see now how God was with us every step of the way. It has cost us much. But this is what God’s children will realize when in Heaven we look back and understand that we were never walking alone.
Read moreCourage in The Netherlands
Now I ask only one thing of you, my F7 brethren: please remember the Dutch brethren in your prayers? The women’s ordination conflict has required much of our energies. It may cost many their eternal life.
Read moreWO Is a Big Distraction
While carrying out various methods of ministry or evangelism, we are harboring anger and possibly hatred towards our fellow man within the church.
Read moreThe Madness Of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (Book Review, Part 1)
As nature abhors a vacuum, into this spiritual and theological vacuum has flooded what is essentially a new “religion,” i.e. radical atheism as manifest in social justice activism, identity group politics and intersectionality.
Read moreThe Biblical Typology of Male & Female (conclusion)
What an incredibly high calling is ours, whether male or female, to reflect what Adam was ordained to reflect, or what Eve was ordained to reflect.
Read moreThe Biblical Typology of Male & Female (part 1)
But as I read my Bible, I was forced to observe that there was an astonishing amount of “male chauvinism” in its pages. Was this cultural, or was it God-ordained?
Read moreLiberation or Subjection in The Trinity? (Part 2)
In our rebellious world some men want to be women because they don’t like the role God gave them. And some women want the man’s role for the same reason. But when God assigned genders their roles, He had in mind their full potential.
Read moreLiberation or Subjection in The Trinity? (Part 1)
Were the three Beings who rule the universe to fight among themselves, in their decision to redeem the Creation from the breakdown introduced by the rebellion of Lucifer? No!
Read moreForest Lake Pastor Says The SDA Church is Chauvinist
Patterson makes the subjective claim that women are more spiritual. How does he know this? Does he sit in the place where he is all-knowing, “discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart”?
Read moreNAD President Proposes de Facto WO
The Church has been split since the day the pro-women's ordination faction decided that it would disregard voted General Conference Session decisions.
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