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Since its inception, the Seventh-day Adventist church has been committed to the Bible and the Bible only to establish its system of beliefs and form its mission. The Bible has also played a major role in Ellen White’s prophetic ministry and in guiding the Adventist movement through some challengi...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century we face two equally important challenges in the area of church growth. The first one is very slow growth in some parts of the world and the second is its opposite, fast growth. Both situations bring with it specific problems that need to be addressed i...

This is my last editorial since at the end of January 2012 I enter the honorable and welcome state of retirement. Looking back over 40 years of ministry I praise the Lord for the way he has blessed His remnant church. When I began my ministry we had just over 2 million members; today we have more...

Mark A. Finley, Receiving the Gift of the Holy Spirit: 10 Days in the Upper Room . Napa, Id.: Pacific Press, 2011. US $9.99. Ron E. M. Clouzet, Adventism’s Greatest Need: The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit . Nampa, Id.: Pacific Press, 2011. US $15.99. These two volumes are a valuable contributio...

The tenacity with which all peoples of the world hold onto things of a spiritual nature is, perhaps, one of the least told human stories. In spite of their general embrace of a naturalistic worldview, many people of the West avoid the number thirteen, just as they have uneasy feelings about black...

Baptism is a public invitation of the new believer into union with Christ and His body, the church (Rom. 6:3‑6; Eph. 1:22, 23; 1 Cor. 12:13). Therefore, only an individual who has expressed his faith in Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour and Lord and who wishes to enter into a bond of union wit...

This book deals with the 28 Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists and was published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Germany in conjunction with the German Adventist publishing house. The author is a professor of systematic theology at Friedensau Adventist University. After a forewo...

This is a book written from a pastoral heart, totally interested in the unity of the church and in bringing healing to doctrinal and theological controversies within the Adventist Church. The tone is irenic and conversational as it tries to deal with both sides of the debate as fairly as possible...

Megachurches have become big business according to Forbes magazine: raking in over $8.5 billion a year in the U.S. alone. Defined as churches with over 2,000 attendees a week, the average megachurch income was $6.7 million in 2007. The Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, the largest megachurch i...

The modern systems of communication facilitate the transfer of dysfunctional doctrinal and theological views from one part of the world to another. Church members with access to the Internet can navigate for hours in an ocean of web pages containing distortions of our message and sensationalist e...