Articles (last 30)
We are standing on the shoulders of giants, through no particular virtue of our own. There are other Christian believers who have a depth of commitment to the Lord that sometimes exceeds our own.
When the GC aligned with the UN, it was presented as a means to expand the Church’s global influence for the gospel. But has it? A revival of primitive godliness is absent.
Any time we elevate mercy in a way that weakens justice, or enforce justice in a way that denies mercy, we stop reflecting God accurately.
There is a massive worldview clash going on right now in our culture. It’s not really about immigration, it is a much bigger issue. The issue is respect for law, versus lawlessness.
We have dulled the ears of many of our evangelical and conservative brethren to our message by essentially crying wolf on many things that were not religious liberty threats, but in fact just political movements.
I am formally affirming my continued and unwavering commitment to the foundations of my faith. I affirm the Holy Scriptures as the inspired, authoritative Word of God.
If antisemitism drove the original change from Sabbath to Sunday worship, do you think that history will repeat itself to drive mandatory Sunday worship and the abrogation of lawful Sabbath worship?
The Church must be separated from the state. We are a living church lashed to a dead state. In order to call someone out of Babylon, we have to be out ourselves.
Certain structures can train people’s conscience to be silent. This is eternally dangerous. Silence never removes the cost, it only relocates it. Truth delayed in the name of ‘stability’ results in greater damage.
Over the past year, just about every wrong decision has been made regarding VSDA and its leadership and there is now irreversible damage. Lives have been permanently altered and trust has been destroyed.
Nor does church administration have an unbroken record in defending liberty of conscience. This has been increasingly so over the past forty years, and never more clearly than in the last five.
So, spinning on my Nikes, I delivered a mighty kick, hoping to put that disgusting ‘toy’ in orbit and teach him some manners.
Where the need for educational, health, and spiritual reform is paramount, SDA organizationalism is focused on protecting employment. The time is ripe for reformation and renewal.
Graves are opened and the living precious wheat are glorified, the church is caught up to heaven. The framework, the organization with all its offices has disappeared into the dustbin of history.
Keep in mind, it’s not Dr. Vine who is causing division in the church. The division is caused by the people who refuse to have a discussion about these things.
There is a new ‘virtue’ that is taking many by storm inside and outside of our denomination, as it seeks to solve the dilemma of injustice. Is being woke, and implementing its philosophy the solution to the problem of injustice?
The fact that we have entered into agreement with the United Nations and its World Health Organization has been for many of us a disappointing revelation. What were they thinking?
There seemed to be no need to take up a personal cross and follow Christ. Over the years I have seen this “no victory” theology growing throughout the church. It’s been an ongoing disappointment for me as a pastor.
People are not afraid to get into conversations about the Sabbath these days. To many, the idea that the Sabbath was a day that emphasizes freedom was a new and welcome thought. The creation of earth was the creation of a free society.
So far, I’ve not heard any screams from the PARL corner or adverse comments by Adventist clergy about an impending mandatory Sabbath worship law in South America.
Andrew Isker argues for a muscular, masculine Christianity that restores the Christian household to a central place in society
In the face of tremendous pressure they allowed us all to have a control group in the great experiment of the Covid Jabgenda. Though marked for special persecution and coercion they stood firm.
Pausing for water, Audrey searched through her backpack one last time. Her voice carried a quiet urgency: “Please pray for me. I’ve only got one tract left to share.” The trail was hushed. We were alone.
This United Nations emphasis on the common good sometimes leads governments to limit religious or personal objections in order to comply with UN guidance.
This power would dominate the world for 1,260 years. The Roman Catholic Church is the only world-wide power that meets this description! The current article will highlight the daming impact of this rule.
In this video, Kirk and his son James take on one of the most sobering questions in all of theology: what is the final fate of the wicked? Is hell eternal conscious torment, or does Scripture point toward annihilation and complete destruction?
In the future when the prophesied signs begin, the idea of slow, gradual geologic processes will be ripped further apart with each new event. The Creator will demonstrate His power over every aspect, every day of creation, once again.
Administrators with unchecked power should not be tolerated in the SDA Church; the Michigan Conference is repeating the same misguided actions of the Sanhedrin, Acts 5:17-40.
I resigned in April from ministry in the Michigan Conference due to the un-Christlike behavior directed toward me for calling the leadership to account.

That is what feminists think happened, but they are wrong. Feminization is not an organic result of women outcompeting men. It is an artificial result of social engineering, and if we take our thumb off the scale it will collapse within a generation.