Tim Crosby

Some of the most important doctrines in Seventh-day Adventist theology are summarized in what I call the five C's: Christ, the cross, the Second Coming, the commandments," and conditionalism. The first four C's need little explanation; this…

There is a suspicion in the minds of some parishioners—a minority, no doubt—that some preachers are guilty of neglecting to rebuke sin. The prophetic voice of condemnation, say the pharisees, has died out in the church. All is sweetness and…

When pondering Ellen G. White's use of sources, we need to be aware that the Bible writers also drew extensively from non-Biblical works. Their usage goes far beyond Paul's occasional quotations from pagan poets such as Epimenides (Titus…

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As a child, Robert Ingersoll heard a preacher proclaim the doctrine that God subjects sinners to unending torment in hell. Ingersoll decided that if God was like that, then he hated Him. Later he wrote of this belief that it "makes man an…

The weather looked inviting, so I laid aside my work and traipsed down the hill to the tracks. The train used them once a week; no one seemed to mind that I put them to good use between trains. I had spent much time walking up and down this…

By the time of Christ some philosophers had come to the conclusion that God, in His absolute perfection, is not subject to human passions and emotions. He knows no distress, excitement, love, or anger. Philo, a Hellenistic…

The perennial debate of inspiration and scriptural authority is heating up once again in Adventist circles. This decade has produced two major treatments of this topic in the Adventist Church: Alden Thompson's Inspiration…

Imagine a group of people at a picnic watching a man walk blindfolded toward the edge of a steep cliff. A brief debate ensues as to whether someone should intervene, but the consensus is that it's nobody's business,…

If you are a church leader not using the Internet, you are missing out on a new world of potential. Dozens of sites can make your ministry more productive. The Barna Research Group claims that by now nearly half of…

The Ten Commandments are not mentioned at all in Acts 15. As we I saw in the first installment of this series, the apostolic command to .A. abstain from fornication (pomeia) refers to Leviticus 18 not to the seventh…

In Acts 15, the leadership of the early church met to settle a controversy."Some men came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the brothers: 'Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses,…