William Johnsson

 The Bible encourages God’s people to fast. Moses fasted on Mount Sinai. The Israelites were called to return to God “ ‘with fasting and weeping and mourning’ ” (Joel 2:12).* Daniel, seeking divine instruction, abstained from “choice food”…

ONE OF the saddest aspects of the church in these times is the gulf be tween the pastor and the theologian. As we look out over the Christian world at large, it seems evident that theology increasingly is limited to "the experts."…

SOME years ago my wife and I were sailing by passenger ship en route to the mission field. We were young and recently married and found the rather fast type of entertainment provided by the ship's officers not too much to our Adventist tastes.…

IT IS possible, I believe, that, even in the midst of a rich ministry, a ministry which keeps us busy doing many things and doing them well, we shall gradually lose the sense of the sacred. It may hap pen that, imperceptibly, we…

Even in the first century of our era the delay in the Second Coming troubled some Christians. Their Lord had left them, promising to return "quickly." He had given them portents of His coming and had bidden them to watch and be ready. For…

Defining inspiration is like catching a rainbow. When we have put forth our best efforts, there will remain an elusive factor, an element of mystery. Inspired writings may be known, but never fully grasped. Instead, they grasp us—for through…

We believe that by this faith we are regenerated in newness of life, being by nature subject to sin. . . . This faith not only doth not hinder us from holy living, or turn us from the love of righteousness, but of necessity begetteth in us…

A teacher of homiletics, himself a fine preacher, once said that the most powerful sermons spring from one of two sources. Either the pastor has passed through an experience himself and wishes to share it with the congregation or he has observed…

As a teenager I listened one day to a tall, no-nonsense preacher expound the Word of God. The preacher was H.M.S. Richards. More than 40 years later I can still recall his topic "Our Unsparing God" and his text, Romans…

The most urgent task facing Adventist biblical scholars today is to reach consensus on principles of interpretation.

Of all Christian bodies, we are a people who, from our inception, have looked to the Bible as the source and standard…

Seventh-day Adventist Statement of Faith #15: "By baptism we confess our faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and testify of our death to sin and of our purpose to walk in newness of life. Thus we acknowledge…