Lael Caesar

Worship, Ministry, and the Authority of the Church

edited by Ángel Manuel Rodríguez, Studies in Adventist Ecclesiology, vol. 3, Silver Spring, MD: Biblical Research Institute, 2016.

Worship, Ministry, and…

We need to prepare for the impossible.

“What do you see?” asked the angel.

“I see the golden lampstands, the lamps, the olive trees on the right and left. But what is this all about?”

“This is power, and yet it may…

Culture is everything, everywhere, all the time. It is “the world of human meaning, the sum total of a people’s works . . . their vision of what it is to be fully human.”¹ Biblical hermeneutics (interpreta­tion) and human culture…

God gives for the sake of joy! “Ask ye of the Lord rain,” advises the prophet Zechariah, ask and the Lord will give (Zech. 10:1).

We need Zechariah’s words because we seem unaware of the laws by which God works. His message is pressingly…

Satan has almost completely lost his standing in the world of Christian theology. Consider, for example, the attitude of three writers in recent biblical and theological publications. First, celebrated New Testament scholar N. T.…

Job's suffering is no figment or fantasy. It is brutal reality. Yet when such suffering visits him, Job humbly submits to God and acknowledges Him to be supreme (1:20-22).

But Job was by no means an unemotional…

One of the most striking of all Christ's predictions was His assertion that at the moment of final judgment, when the "sheep" are divided from the "goats," the dominating deciding factor, the overriding question,…

We live in a time when some theological and religious authorities question the validity of the bodily resurrection of our Lord, and thus ultimately of people of faith. As they extend their arguments back into such…