David Trim

Just as in many other professions, the work of the church pastor continues to be increasingly complex. Wearing multiple hats at the office, at church, at home, and in local communities, today’s pastor deals with various kinds of conflicts,…

Whether obtaining it from Adventist or non-Adventist institutions, pastors’ education impacts their lives and ministry. It also influences how they value and support Adventist education, which they can do through either explicit or implicit…

Ellen G. White famously urges the need for “revival and reformation.” Of these, revival has been what the church has recently focused on the most, perhaps because it is easy to understand what that is. But what did she mean by reformation?…

Seventh-day Adventists are accustomed to being members of a worldwide church, so much so that probably many take it for granted, not realizing that Protestant denominations are mostly organized around national borders. Adventist ecclesiastical…

What does it really mean to be a Christian?” asked a student at Australasian Missionary College in August, 1939.¹ Although always an important question, at this particular moment in history it held special significance for Adventist…

Christ’s statement in Matthew 24:14, “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come,” was foundational to Ellen White’s understanding of global mission. She believed…

In April 1908, Walter Ising, a young German Adventist—just turned 27— and his wife, Frieda, arrived in the bustling port city of Beirut, then part of the Ottoman Empire. Sent…

When a revival of true godliness in our own lives does not have the impact on our fellow believers that we want, how should we respond?

The easy way is to invoke the spirit of the Old Testament prophets and of Revelation 3:14–17—to…