In the Bible, we find that God’s appearance is like fire (Heb.12:29), His throne is a fire (Dan.7: 9), His chariots are a fire (2 Kings 2:11). His law is the fiery law (Deut. 33:2), God the Son is like fire (Ezekiel 8:2), Seven Spirits of God are like fire (Rev. 4:5), and the living [...]
Where is that which the true follower of Christ aims? Ellen Write wrote in Testimonies Volume 1 page 160
“Those who feel the constraining love of God do not ask how little may be given in order to obtain the heavenly reward; they ask not for the lowest standard, but aim at perfect conformity to [...]
Are you worshiping the true Christ or the false Christ?
The true Christ doesn’t give us false promises of a lack of pain and suffering with this world, instead, He walks with us through the painful storms of this life and the ultimate storm at the end.
It is interesting that Christianity has become more and more a “individual” thing between me and God.  This mindset causes us to ignore the command to “neglect not the assembling of ourselves together.” (Hebrews 10:35) We come more and more to the selfish conclusion that I don’t need to be among others, not realizign the [...]
Dr. R. Clifford Jones has?edited a book of interviews with prominent African American Seventh-day Adventist preachers entitled Preaching with Power.? You can obtain the book from the ministerial association.? In the next 11 posts I will look at each preacher?s
Understanding of preaching.
Method of sermon preparation
Understanding of Adventist preaching
Understanding of Black preaching
I would encourage all [...]
The first interview is with the chaplain of the United States Senate Dr. Barry Black. Dr. Black has had an illustrious career in Chaplaincy and is a demonstration that the Adventist Pastorate is not the only vocation for Seventh-day Adventist preachers.
Understanding of Preaching
Dr. Black acknowledges Phillip Brooks as informing his understanding of preaching and describes [...]
The next interview is with Charles Bradford. Elder Bradford has had a very productive career within adventism including becoming the first AFrican American to be elected presdient of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. His career has been largely as an evangelist and church administrator.
Elder Brooks defined himself as a “traveling Preacher.” He has been the Field Secretary of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists as well as the speaker/director for Breath of Life television program.
Elder Brooks states that his theology of preaching is that he should “exalt Christ and his word.”
The next interview is with E. E. Cleveland. He is probably the greatest Adventist Evangelist of our time. When one thinks of Adventist Evangelists E. E. Cleveland’s name will almost certainly come up
James Doggette is a professor at Oakwood College as well as the Pastor of the Madison Mission Seventh-day Adventist Church in Huntsville, Alabama. Dr. Doggette is a dynamic speaker who relatively recently has held an Amazing Facts seminar in Huntsville Alabama.
