JESUS: THE SOURCE OF AUTHENTIC ADVENTISM
In 1995, Martin Weber wrote a book entitled Who’s Got the Truth?: Making Sense Out of Five Different Adventist Gospels. Weber claimed his primary…
DECIPHERING “AUTHENTIC” ADVENTISM?
A few years ago, our congregation decided to recruit Adventists from around North America to move to our city to help us participate in…
SEARCH FOR AUTHENTICITY AND THE ADVENTIST FAITH
In his book Life of the Beloved and Our Greatest Gift, Henri Nouwen shares the experience of befriending a young secular journalist named Fred…
AUTHENTICALLY ADVENTIST: DISCOVERING JESUS
For me, it was showing up at the neighborhood Bible study. Ostensibly, it was so that I could trade baseball cards and play street…
TRADEMARKS OF ADVENTIST AUTHENTICITY
What does it mean to be an authentic Seventh-day Adventist? At first glance, answering that question seems easy. It is all in our name,…
SABBATH HOPE GRACE-PEOPLE
Seventh-day Adventism is a particular faith. When formalizing the organization of the church in 1863, the Adventist pioneers chose to put that peculiarity and…
THE GRACE OF ESSENTIALS
Sabbath has been a constant in my life from childhood. Everything about it in the beginning was odd until I got used to it…
CONFESSIONS OF AN IGNORANT AND CONFUSED ADVENTIST
The gentleman in Western Tanzania was drop dead drunk, but his dull red eyes brightened. He flashed a toothless grin when he heard I…
A CATHEDRAL SPEAKS
Come with me into an English cathedral. There are over 40 of them in my country. Come with me into the one I know…
ARE YOU FOR REAL? BEING (OR BECOMING) AN AUTHENTIC BELIEVER
Last year, the Southern Baptists denomination in the United States lost half a million members. This means that in just twelve months, roughly one…