Lincoln E. Steed

Lincoln E. Steed is the editor of Liberty for the North American Division, Silver Spring, Maryland.

Articles by Lincoln E. Steed

Never walk alone

May 2025

Stop walking alone. Jesus didn’t. Nor should you.

You may disagree, perhaps thinking, “You don’t know what I am going through.” You are correct—I don’t. But Someone does.

On December 30, 2024, I began a new private study in…

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“How can I have what she has, God?”

January 2023

In 2012, I looked over the early morning bustle of Jakarta, Indonesia, from the rooftop of the hotel where I was speaking at a convention.1 From a nearby mosque, an imam’s call to worship soared across the neighborhood. I listened…

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Into the night

November 2014

Someone once said that youth is wasted on the young. When I was young, we youth had a lot on our minds: foreign wars that might involve us, an active round of selfindulgence,
and for some, worries about grades and the future. 

Then…

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Finishing What Was Started

August 2014

In the reign of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, Ezra the scribe returned from Babylon to his hometown of Jerusalem. This event was not just a homecoming but a search for the blessing of the God of his forebears: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Ezra…

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A Traveling Man

December 2013

Revival is a powerful thing. It changes lives. It can even change nations. In spite of what we read about the first religious settlements in North America, by the early 1700s, daily life had become not just secular but a difficult challenge…

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Personal spiritual retreat: 24 hours with God

January 2013

What would happen if you took 24 hours away from your routine sometime within the next month to be alone with God? What might be the results? I have put this question to many pastors and administrators over the past few years. Here are some…

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17.5 to 1

June 1967

THE apostles were together on the day of Pentecost and we are told they were of one accord. They were praying for the promised Holy Ghost. And it came as it al­ways will if our hearts are right and we are united. Each disciple received the…

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Facing Facts

June 1969

OUR statistical reports for the year ending December 31, 1968, show substantial gains, for which we thank God. By baptism and profession of faith 24,258 joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the North American Division and 133,101 in…

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The folly of mixing religious and political vision

April 2003

The Washington power elite were there. George Bush, Sr., had sent an effusive video message. The personal aide of President Bush was at hand to express the president's regrets for not being there, called away by another…

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16.6 to to Win 1

June 1968

 

We have just completed another report of the evangelistic success that has ac­companied the soul winners who have yielded their lives to Christ and have gone forward to carry the gospel under the power of the Holy Spirit during…

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