Northern Lord vs. Southern Lord

Salvation through Christ's death on the cross sounds wonderful. It sure beats fulfilling every OT commandment as a means to salvation...

Today we are no better or no worse than our forebears were. We can only wait for God's mercy to reach us wherever we are, however we ar...

Daily Match in Your Mind: Solutions Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs) pop up in one's mind with annoying ease. Automatic Positive T...

Not because we've done so much for you or for others. Not because we've refrained from doing other things that were selfish. Not bec...

Difficult subject. One good thing about not taking everything literally even in the Pentateuch is highlighted in the following note. Note:...

Reinvent the Adventist church, not just the youth ministry. If we don't there will be no future for the Adventist church in North Americ...

We need divine favor to assist us at times in drawing close to God. Not all children can approach their parent after estrangement, whether o...

The walls of the traditional church are disappearing or morphing into virtual constructs. Christians in other countries have made the Wimble...

Accidentally I chanced upon a post which included comments that I had forgotten I had left one year ago. I am providing the link below for v...

Christ's favor is sufficent for you. His power is made perfect in weakness. . . . When you are weak [Christ's power] makes you stro...

Old Testament: circumcision, religious feasts, executing of adulterers, incest and same sex practioners. Keeping the minutiae of the law....

Read the Bible through and through and it's obvious one book is missing. It's one that connects all the books together. It's n...

"Don't write about the Holy Spirit. Don't talk about him. He is too holy, too sacred, yes too dangerous, to even think about....

Years ago I read that Christ had two wills: a human as well as a divine will. While on Earth, however, the divine will was present in the hi...

Acid-tinged sonic improvisations, a la Jimi Hendrix*, amazed the ultra-conservative members at an Adventist Christian service earlier this y...

Evolution may very well be how we all got here, whether you believe in theistic evolution with its main complication being that God used dea...

1. Pray morning, noon and night. 2. Study God's word diligently. 3. Wait on the Lord for his favor. More to follow. . . .

Christ, let me be sure of my salvation; it's the only thing I've got. These words came to mind after I had spent the first hours of ...

This blog post is not about any science fiction messiah, per se,  though the most famous of SciFi messiahs does come to mind. I'm referr...

One way of addressing this issue was to set new hymns to well known popular tunes, and early Adventist hymnals display several examples of t...