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LYING ABOUT LAST GENERATION THEOLOGY
Articles - ADvindicate - Sáb 14 Set 2024 01:41:28 EDT - 7
A recent online report illustrates yet again how lies regarding the construct known as Last Generation Theology continue to proliferate in various circles of the Seventh day Adventist Church. It is important that these falsehoods be answere...
THE WORD OF GOD IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 06 Set 2024 01:41:13 EDT - 8
The Seventh day Adventist movement, from its beginning, took Scripture as its foundation and guiding light....
SHOULD TITHES AND OFFERINGS SERVE AS WEAPONS OF PROTEST?
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 06 Set 2024 01:41:13 EDT - 8
The suggestion has lately been voiced that lay Seventh day Adventists consider establishing a parachurch organization for the purpose of withholding financial support from certain entities within the denominational structure and channeling ...
IDOLATRY OF THE MIND
Articles - ADvindicate - Sáb 31 Ago 2024 01:41:11 EDT - 7
God created our minds. He fashioned our intelligence. He designed our ability to ask, to analyze, and to probe. But what is true of our bodies is equally true of our minds. If God made them, He has the right to tell us how to use them....
WILL THE SAVED HAVE THEIR FALLEN NATURES REMOVED BEFORE JESUS COMES?
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 23 Ago 2024 19:42:56 EDT - 6
The influence of the Holy Flesh movement of more than a century ago continues to affect certain devout Adventists. Only as we keep the inspired consensus constantly in view can such pitfalls be avoided....
A CITY ON A HILL
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 23 Ago 2024 19:42:56 EDT - 7
The Puritans of New England saw the American nation as God's kingdom on earth, to be established through civil force and military expansion. But does such a course represent God's way of revealing His character and reaching the lost?...
SMALL ENOUGH TO DEFEND
Articles - ADvindicate - Sáb 17 Ago 2024 01:42:24 EDT - 7
Why the "majoring in minors" allegation often flung at classic Adventism makes no sense....
MESSENGERS OF TRUTH
Articles - ADvindicate - Dom 11 Ago 2024 03:40:07 EDT - 9
So eager were the early Adventists to spread the message of truth that they eagerly spent their time, money, and energy disseminating publications far and wide....
A FORETASTE OF THE GREAT REUNION
Articles - ADvindicate - Dom 11 Ago 2024 03:40:07 EDT - 9
What the world witnessed on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base was just a fleeting glimpse, a small foretaste, of the great loosing of history’s captives which will soon take place when Jesus fulfills His promise to come again and take ...
THREE ISSUES
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 26 Jul 2024 09:39:26 EDT - 21
The compelling logic between particular controversies in the church is often, and unfortunately, missed....
SECULAR HUMANISM
Articles - ADvindicate - Dom 21 Jul 2024 01:41:24 EDT - 12
As a teenager, star struck with the march of scientific progress, I sat in front of my science teacher and listened with rapture as he told us that God was nothing more than a man made concept, and that man needed to progress himself from h...
BIBLICAL PEACEMAKING
Articles - ADvindicate - Dom 21 Jul 2024 01:41:24 EDT - 18
The events of the past week in the United States have evoked calls for “lowering the temperature” in political discourse, urging grace and civility in social dialogue, even making effort to contact friends with whom one differs on such ...
LOUISIANA AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Articles - ADvindicate - Sáb 13 Jul 2024 01:41:12 EDT - 21
Last month the U.S. state of Louisiana enacted a law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in all public schools within its territory, from kindergarten to state funded universities. How should Seventh day Adventists respond?...
A BIG REASON WHY THE DEFINITION OF SIN MATTERS
Articles - ADvindicate - Sáb 06 Jul 2024 01:38:13 EDT - 13
Much of the current debate over LGBT issues among conservative Christians has focused on the perceived need to change one’s orientation. But Biblical sin is not about orientation. Like righteousness, sin in the Bible is all about choice....
SHALL WE "LEAVE RELIGION TO FOLLOW JESUS"?
Articles - ADvindicate - Dom 30 Jun 2024 01:42:04 EDT - 19
This week I was informed of a colleague in ministry who has embraced the mantra, “Leave religion to follow Jesus.” How does this notion compare with the picture of Jesus found in the Bible?...
Uzzah's Presumption and Rashness
Articles - ADvindicate - Dom 16 Jun 2024 01:42:10 EDT - 35
The story of Uzzah's death in 2 Samuel 6:6 7 presents a challenging theological issue: why was Uzzah slain for touching the Ark of the Covenant, despite his apparent good intentions, when the Bible also emphasizes that God looks at the hear...
A CAGE OF EVERY UNCLEAN AND HATEFUL BIRD
Articles - ADvindicate - Sáb 15 Jun 2024 01:42:32 EDT - 36
When we see the idolatrous veneration of the most corrupt of men blatantly practiced by Christians claiming to be guardians of Biblical morality, we can know for certain that the spiritual collapse of all but a faithful remnant of Christ’...
THE JOY OF CAMP MEETING
Articles - ADvindicate - Sáb 08 Jun 2024 01:43:43 EDT - 50
Today camp meetings continue to serve an important purpose. Not only are they a wonderful place to fellowship with other believers. . . . but they continue to serve as an important evangelistic outreach tool....
ANOTHER ADVENTIST AGAINST THE SABBATH
Articles - ADvindicate - Sáb 08 Jun 2024 01:43:43 EDT - 25
The pillar doctrines of the Seventh day Adventist faith remain thoroughly Biblical, and this fact merits repetition as often as possible. ...
AN APPEAL
Articles - ADvindicate - Sáb 01 Jun 2024 01:43:50 EDT - 32
From the ADvindicate ministry team, to our supporters worldwide....
The Climate Change Agenda and the Prophetic Sunday Law: A Different Perspective
Articles - ADvindicate - Ter 28 Mai 2024 03:41:53 EDT - 24
Recent discussions have raised concerns about the global climate change movement and whether it might lead to the enforcement of Sunday laws. However, a careful analysis reveals that the current environmental advocacy, including the Vatican...
SOCIAL JUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP, AND THE COMING OF JESUS
Articles - ADvindicate - Qui 16 Mai 2024 19:42:49 EDT - 33
The faultless character required of those who would meet their Lord in peace at His return encompasses both personal and collective responsibility....
WISHFUL ONENESS
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 10 Mai 2024 19:42:42 EDT - 40
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 ...
A WORK OF PREPARATION
Articles - ADvindicate - Sex 10 Mai 2024 19:42:42 EDT - 24
God is the only One who can help us be conquerors in the battle with evil—without Him we are hopelessly lost in sin....
HOW MANY DEFINITIONS?
Articles - ADvindicate - Qui 02 Mai 2024 19:44:58 EDT - 29
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....