Doug Batchelor

Before one of my sermons, the congregation received a handout with a number of theological propositions arranged in two columns. Without knowing the origin of the statements, they had to indicate which ones they agreed with. On the left,…

When Paul calls Jesus “the last Adam” (1 Cor. 15:45),¹ it is not incidental language that the apostle casually employs. “The last Adam” is, in fact, a corporate title for Christ that alerts us to the fact that a macroscopic and…

Tears filled Joanne Kim’s eyes as she watched the first three Mongolians get baptized and join the fledgling Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mongolia in 1993.

Her eyes again filled with tears as she watched 155 Mongolians get baptized…

For a long time, I have observed church members constantly looking at their watches in order to know the exact time of sunset, when the Sabbath would be over, while making joyless, never-ending lists of what they could or could not do on…

As we commemorate the founding of the Ministerial Association of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1922, here is an extremely productive ministerial question: What is the one thing Adventist ministers can do that will massively increase…

Are our churches dying? Are our congregations asleep? Are we not giving the trumpet a certain sound?

If the answers to these questions are Yes, I know of only one sure remedy: personal ministry. Nothing will revitalize the soul of…

Millions are apprehensive regarding Y2K, also known as the 'Millennial Bug," when because of a serious computer programming problem many computers worldwide will malfunction.

Much of the angst comes because no one, even the experts,…

A few years back my wife Karen and I went to Hawaii for a little rest and relaxation. Fortunately we have friends there, Steve and Chris Boyl, who welcomed us to their beautiful home near Kona. Steve is a building contractor but his real…