Jud Lake

God reveals Himself in Scripture as one God in three Persons, and we are called to worship Him accordingly. Continuing the discussion in my previous article (published in the December 2024 issue), naming the triune God is a biblical practice…

One of the most intriguing aspects of our history is the initial rejection of the Trinity by many early leaders in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. They perceived Christ as derived from the Father and considered the Holy Spirit an impersonal…

Allegations that Ellen White was a plagiarist, deceiver, manipulator, religious bully, liar, alcoholic, and much more continue unabated today. “I expect these raids will be made against me till Christ comes,” she wrote. Every opposer to “our…

As I read through Richard M. Davidson’s long-anticipated textbook, A Song for the Sanctuary: Experiencing God’s Presence in Shadow and Reality, it reminded me of the great Puritan works in which they started with a biblical passage,…

One of the main pastoral func­tions of the minister is that of visiting in the homes of his peo­ple. The importance of this phase of ministerial labor should not be minimized, for statistics reveal that the Christian church is los­ing hundreds…

A leading radio net­work has a feature pro­gram called Emphasis. Interspersed throughout the day, the program is a report on varied sub­jects and situations. As I heard this program introduced recently on my auto radio and heard a topic of…

The Seventh-day Adventist position on the use of intoxicating bev­erages has ever been con­sistent and Biblical. The church has always taken the unequivocal stand that alcoholic drinks are debilitating to body and mind, and hence are not…

In order to settle once and for all the questions he had regarding the investigative judgment, Marvin Moore decided, in 2007, to engage in a thorough study of every aspect of our Adventist teaching on that theme. He examined the writings…

ONE OF THE MOST effective tools for communicating many salient points of the Adventist message can be the thirty-second and one-minute television spot ministries. Faith for Today program planners have discovered in a pilot study beamed at…

Time-management systems abound, and the busy pastor needs the best of the best. ¹ Three systems outclass all others: the Time Power System,² the Franklin System,³ and The Seven Habits…

The empowerment of the Holy Spirit is indispensable to Christian preaching. Preachers may be able to present the letter of the Word of God and hold the attention of audiences with interesting stories and PowerPoint…

Recent publications on homiletics have identified four paradigms, each with its own outcome for listening congregations: (1) the Traditional Homiletic under standing truth through explanation; (2) the Kerygmatic Homiletic…

Much has happened in the Seventh-day Adventist Church during the first quarter of the twenty-first century, and historians Michael W. Campbell and Edward M. Allen have commemorated it with A Global History of Seventh-day Adventists.…