Why Study Words?

Someone has well said that you and I, and all the rest of humanity, live on our own little island and spend our life shouting at each other across the sea of misunderstanding. We see parents misunderstood…

Prove It!

The case for facts first, then words, is il­lustrated in the following incident: A certain political leader was making an impassioned speech in a certain city about the economic progress of his country. He de­scribed…

Did I See Everything?

What you and I see in the physical world depends upon our individual experi­ences, with no two alike. Lee breaks down the general term experience into five factors that show why two people…

God does not play word games when He goes about saving men. The issue has always been faith that attitude on man's part that trusts God and acts accordingly. The opposite of faith is rebellion. The rebel does not trust God; consequently,…

How Authentic Sermons Are Born

PAUL is direct and clear sermons are born, not from within but from above. "We too believe, and so we speak" (2 Cor. 4:13). ¹ Preaching is not a matter of giving all you've got within you.…

WHAT was the nature of New Testament preaching that called forth the power and glory of New Testament faith? How is authentic New Testament preaching distinguished from a religious lecture or an impassioned exhortation? What should one expect…

IN MANY ways these days the question is being asked, Is our health ministry a means to an end, or an end in itself? Those who press the latter ask, Should we not do good for its own sake? Should we not bring healing, physically…

And there was war in heaven" (Rev. 12:7)^* How could this be? If God is all-powerful, who would dare contest His authority? If He is all-wise, how could He even appear to be inadequate or unfair?

But war there was, and…

A critique of the pre-Fall view by H.E. Douglass

It may seem to my colleague that Seventh-day Adventist theology presents two alternative views concerning the human nature of Christ. But the view that Jesus assumed Adam's pre-Fall…

The author's purpose is to ascertain what Seventh-day Adventists have historically believed on the "specific Christological question, Did the incarnate Christ come to earth in the human nature of the unfallen Adam, or in the human nature…

When Seventh-day Adventists refer to the "Great Controversy Theme" (GCT) what do we mean?

Some may think of The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan, the fifth book in the Conflict of the Ages series.¹…

I don't want dry doctrine, just give me Jesus." "Traditional hymns don't do any thing for me. Give me contemporary music; it speaks to my soul." "Ordain women? I don't know how that can even be contemplated when one…

Editor's note: Last August Ministry published an article by Woodrow Whidden announcing and commenting upon Andrews University Press' republication of the book Questions on Doctrine. In the same issue Ministry declared…

One of the Seventh-day Adventist statements of faith follows: All humanity is now involved in a great controversy between Christ and Satan regarding the character of God, His law, and His sovereignty over the…

Editorial Note: During the last year or more, Ministry has published extensively on the important topic of pastors and sexual wrongdoing. Predictably, at least two somewhat disparate schools of thought have emerged among…

FOR EVERYONE on Planet Earth, nothing is more important than knowing who Jesus Christ is and knowing how men and women ought to relate to what He is now doing.

The Biblical doctrine of the sanctuary helps to explain such…