Daniel Xisto
Daniel Xisto, grand-prize winner of Ministry’s 2011 Ministerial Student Writing Contest, is a student at the Andrews University Seventhday Adventist Theological Seminary, Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States.
Articles by Daniel Xisto
The promise in God’s name
March 2015
In Western culture, names are not generally chosen to convey information about the character or qualities of the people they identify. For instance, if I introduced myself…
Job 42:6 and the Absence of Sin in Job's Repentence
March 2014
Scripture describes Job as “blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil” (1:1).1 God Himself endorsed this depiction when He twice declared, "there is no one like him on the earth"(1:8; 2:3). In contrast with these…
Free will and choice: A study of Jeremiah 1:5
May 2012
The book of Jeremiah begins with the prophet’s distinctive call to ministry. Jeremiah 1:51 states that before Jeremiah was born, even before he was conceived in his mother’s womb, the Lord had specific…