If you asked people on the street to define the term love, you’d get quite an array of answers and descriptions. Many of us have heard that love is “patient,” “kind,” and “never fails”—but how do we find this true love in a corrupted world filled with cheap substitutes? How can we know if we are... [Show more]
The Apostle Paul wrote, “Thus it is not the gardeners with their planting and watering who count, but God who makes it grow. Whether they plant or water, they work as a team, though each will get his own pay for this own labor. We are God’s fellow workers, and you are God’s garden” (1 Corinthians... [Show more]
Seventy percent of Seventh-day Adventist Church members have a relative or personal friend who used to be an Adventist and has dropped out of the church. It is a sad reality, but for every person who regularly attends a Seventh-day Adventist Church there is at least one more person who used to... [Show more]
Seventy percent of Seventh-day Adventist Church members have a relative or personal friend who used to be an Adventist and has dropped out of the church. It is a sad reality, but for every person who regularly attends a Seventh-day Adventist Church there is at least one more person who used to... [Show more]
Are you certain that you’re where God wants you to be, doing what God wants you to do? Is your time, money, health, and giftedness all work-ing for God, fitting together like clockwork? Steward and stewardship are words we hear in church, but don’t often hear anywhere else. Some people,... [Show more]
Many are familiar with Jesus’ famous words that lead His Sermon on the Mount. Those words have been cause for hope for Christians everywhere. They have also been cause for profound discussion regarding just how we should conduct ourselves in this broken world. But you’re about to delve into the... [Show more]
“The church exists by mission just as fire exists by burning,” wrote Emil Brunner. “Where there is no mission, there is no church.” The problem is, some churches have become mere Sabbath-morning gatherings of religious people. They’ve lost their fire and fail to actively love and serve their... [Show more]
Imagine you could have everything you wanted in life—wealth, power, prestige, knowledge, and more. Sounds pretty good, right? Now meet the wisest man on earth, King Solomon, who had all these things and more. But how did he regard his life’s pursuits? Meaningless. Vanity. Nonsense. A chasing after... [Show more]
Forgiveness is at the center of our faith. We forgive because Jesus has forgiven us and says we should forgive others. But what does it mean to forgive? Is it to forget any wrongdoings, to accept an apology, to reconcile, to move on? What does it look like in real life? The Forgiveness Formula... [Show more]
A Deeper Look at Your Church is a book every new Adventist should read (along with those who are not so new, but could use a refresher). It is really “the rest of the story” from what you heard during evangelism—stated in terms of discipleship. A Deeper Look at Your Church doesn’t revisit... [Show more]
