OLD ALLEGATIONS, NEW EVIDENCE
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 19 Abr 2024 19:44:21 EDT - 1A 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?...
THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION (NAR)
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 12 Abr 2024 19:45:00 EDT - 2A religious movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation has come into American headlines recently, particularly with respect to the 2024 presidential election. ...
THE LGBT CHALLENGE TO SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 12 Abr 2024 19:45:00 EDT - 1Let 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. Nothin...
FIREBALLS AND SOLAR ECLIPSES: RELIABLE PORTENTS OR FALSE ALARMS?
Articles - ADvindicate - Qui 28 Mar 2024 21:42:05 EDT - 1We 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 fire...
THE BITTERNESS TRAP
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 22 Mar 2024 19:42:20 EDT - 1Too 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 obliterat...
THE EXAMPLE OF BALAAM AND THE ABUSE OF PRAYER
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 15 Mar 2024 19:42:15 EDT - 15“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.” Ell...
JUSTICE. MERCY. HUMILITY.
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 08 Mar 2024 19:42:53 EST - 1The concept of church discipline has to do with the ultimate restoration of human beings into the image of God....
A BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF CHURCH DISCIPLINE
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 08 Mar 2024 19:42:53 EST - 1“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)....
RETURN TO THE MOON
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 01 Mar 2024 19:42:42 EST - 2Reflections on the limits of science, technology, and the human character made evident by the revival of the space exploration program....
AT THE RUBICON? OR WATERLOO?
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 23 Fev 2024 19:42:40 EST - 1A new online article claims Adventists should “cross the Rubicon” by rewriting our classic eschatology regarding the coming Sunday law and similar developments. But might such a choice replicate another historical vignette—that of Nap...
"THE GODHEAD UNDER SIEGE"
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 23 Fev 2024 19:42:40 EST - 7A Call for Unity in the Seventh day Adventist Church in the Face of Division Over the Godhead Issue....
SAVED BY FAITH, JUDGED BY WORKS
Articles - ADvindicate - Qui 15 Fev 2024 19:42:36 EST - 3Is this the paradox many hold it to be? Or do the inspired writings offer a simple explanation?...
"IS IT A SIN TO FEEL LIKE SINNING?"
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 09 Fev 2024 19:42:43 EST - 1Pastor Kevin Paulson will speak this evening (February 9, 2024) on the topic, “Is It a Sin To Feel Like Sinning?” at Revive Vespers on the campus of Andrews University, in the Biology Amphitheater at 7:30 p.m. Questions and answers will...
The Foundation of Salvation
Articles - ADvindicate - Qui 01 Fev 2024 19:45:36 EST - 2What is realityespecially when it comes to salvation? Is there more than one reality? Pastor Ted Wilson, president of the Seventh day Adventist Church, explores the reality of love as an inherent attribute of God and a reflection of His pre...
ANOTHER FAILED ATTACK ON THE INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT
Articles - ADvindicate - Qui 01 Fev 2024 19:45:36 EST - 2A recent article on a liberal Adventist website fabricates a false dilemma between the Bible and Ellen White regarding the classic Adventist investigative judgment doctrine. But the article’s case falls woefully short of both the Biblical...
CANCEL CULTURE OR COWARD CULTURE?
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 26 Jan 2024 19:44:07 EST - 1God’s heroes through the ages have risked everything, including their lives and those of their loved ones, for the sake of bearing public witness to Bible truth and the resulting contrast with error. For people in the church today to hi...
"LOOKING DOWN ON ME FROM HEAVEN"
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 26 Jan 2024 19:44:07 EST - 3A few years ago I attended a baptism in one of our churches. As with many of our baptisms, the candidates are encouraged to give a testimony after they have come up out of the font (dried and re dressed of course). At one point this particu...
WHY CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM MATTERS
Articles - ADvindicate - Qui 18 Jan 2024 19:43:17 EST - 1A number of prominent voices are articulating an eschatological narrative that is foreign to what Scripture actually states regarding how the end will play out. This has resulted in confusion, disunity and debates on social media and other ...
THE LOSS OF THE BEREAN PRINCIPLE
Articles - ADvindicate - Qui 18 Jan 2024 19:43:17 EST - 2What God has inspired must take precedence over all other spiritual writings. Once our minds are saturated with the former, we can peruse the latter with an alertness that enables us to see more clearly the difference between right and wr...
STRIKING A BALANCE OR EMBRACING ERROR?
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 12 Jan 2024 19:43:41 EST - 2A recent article in a prominent denominational outlet challenges certain features of the classic Adventist construct known in recent times as Last Generation Theology. Are these challenges credible?...
GOD STILL RESTRAINS THE WINDS OF STRIFE
Articles - ADvindicate - Sáb 06 Jan 2024 01:42:18 EST - 1Whatever fears may ravage human hearts in these tumultuous times, those adhering to Holy Scripture can face the coming year with confidence. God is still in control. And until He has a people prepared to deliver His final warning, His m...
PASSED BY
Articles - ADvindicate - Sáb 23 Dez 2023 01:43:31 EST - 2“Above the hills of Bethlehem are gathered an innumerable throng of angels. They wait the signal to declare the glad news to the world. Had the leaders in Israel been true to their trust, they might have shared the joy of heralding the bi...
THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN--THEN AND NOW
Articles - ADvindicate - Dom 17 Dez 2023 01:43:30 EST - 7A recent controversy over a holiday display in Iowa’s state Capitol should cause Christians to pose the ultimate question to our own selves: Regardless of our profession, do we in fact belong to the synagogue of Satan?...
WHEN--AND WHEN NOT--TO FOLLOW THE LEADER
Articles - ADvindicate - Sáb 09 Dez 2023 01:43:35 EST - 3Neither popular culture, traditional values, formal scholarship, spiritual fads, nor one’s preferred experiential comfort level can carry any weight with the true Christian, in particular those called to leadership. As with King Zedekia...
GRACE
Articles - ADvindicate - Sáb 09 Dez 2023 01:43:35 EST - 2Forgiveness, reconciliation, and power all comprise the Biblical definition of this much misunderstood term....