The Joy of the Sabbath

The other day I was talking to a friend about the joy that the Sabbath brings. I do not have to work on that day. I can set aside cares and responsibilities that living in our contemporary world brings. I can take a nap in the middle of the day, I can reunite with members of my faith community, I can call friends, I can take a walk with my family.

I can do some missionary work. The Sabbath is a day that I can set aside worldly cares and be unencumbered in my kingdom living, however with a young child, I am beginning to wonder how to talk of and pass on the love for the Sabbath.

Do We Really Know our Doctrines?

I am told that Adventists were once called people of the Book. It is said that you could pull just about any member aside and ask that one for a text that teaches the Adventist understanding of the Sabbath, State of the Dead, or Sanctuary and any could give that to you. I was listening to a preacher who seems to be living in those days when this were true. That preacher said that today you could grab any Second Advent believer and that one could still do this.

Powerful Testimony or Celebration of Sin?

Carl McRoy has written an article entitled Testipohnies. You can find the article at this link. In the article, McRoy chronicles the common occurrence of a preacher talking about his or her life of sin before coming to Jesus. We all have heard these stories. We listen intently as the preacher found his or herself in a tight situations. They have smoked cigarettes and done drugs, drank everything but Drano, stolen from the big pimp boss man, and some even killed other people.

There are More Questions!

One of the major impediments to a deeper understanding of the Sanctuary and the Sabbath message is the tendency to only ask one type of question of our doctrines.

The Only Question Some Ask

Sabbath, More than a Day?

There are two prevalent attitudes that I have witnessed amongst Sabbatarians that can lead to neglect of the teaching, learning, and living the Sabbath.

Nothing Else To Learn

HMS Richards Speaks about Ellen White’s Preaching

Audio 39 – Healing in Jesus and a Sabbath Reflection

Which Jesus do You Worship?

Who controls your living? Is Jesus in the driver’s seat of your life, or are you? Do we want to live the life of Jesus or do we want Jesus to help us live our own self-directed life?

A Lot of Adventist Preaching

Have you ever wished you had a list of all the Adventist sites that feature audio and/or video sermons? Well, Rod Wright has a number of links of interest to Adventists at this link. The site is entitled , “Great Contemporary Adventist Preaching.”

It Never Ends – Predicting the End

It never ends. In case you have not heard, the economy of the United States will Crash in September of 2008. Then, os some say, the global economy will crash. We can expect a war with Iran soon as well, presumably ushering in a full scale world war. Some say it is the work of the Illuminati, some say it is the New World Order, but whoever is behind it, it is a certain thing, so they say…

Predictions of the End