Stand Against the Devil!
[MARTIN CAREY] “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil” (Ephesians 6:11). Those of us brought up in […]
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Author: Martin Carey
Martin Carey is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who lives in Southern California. Raised Adventist and a product of Adventist schools, he often struggled with agnosticism. He and his wife came to life in 2006. He is married to Sharon and they have two sons, Nick and Matthew. They live with joyful but messy lives with Beethoven's music and several rescued animals.
He Restores My Soul
[MARTIN CAREY] “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul” (Psalm 23:1–3). These […]
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Man and The Suitable Helper
MARTIN CAREY Writing about the nature of man has been a very humbling venture, and especially with this topic today—relationships between men and women. There is no subject more badly […]
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How We Worship in Spirit and Truth
Part Two: Sacrificing “Potential Persons” MARTIN CAREY In the first segment of this series on the nature of man, we looked at how physicalism is at the root of Adventist […]
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How We Worship In Spirit and Truth
Part One: Adventism—It’s Physical MARTIN CAREY “If only I lived closer to that well.” She sighed and lifted her clay water jar over her shoulder and stepped into the hot […]
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Rescued and Transferred!
MARTIN CAREY Every night Sharon and I take our little old dog Cashew for a 20-minute walk. Even though we live in a mostly peaceful neighborhood, we have seen the […]
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Are You Bought With A Price?
MARTIN CAREY It’s Friday afternoon, and you just got home from work. You step into the living room and stop to look around. There are clothes on the floor, muddy […]
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The Agnostic Pharisee
MARTIN CAREY When I was seven years old, I saw a Harry Anderson painting of Jesus standing over a large city, holding out His hands. It was entitled, “Christ Of […]
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Are You Formed by Disciplines?
BY MARTIN CAREY “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” No other man could have spoken words like these. They are […]
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A Woman Accused
MARTIN CAREY It was the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, and the city was crowded with festive Israelites. The feast was to remember how God had preserved their […]
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Intervention for a Frightened Father
MARTIN CAREY When we are confronted with difficult challenges that nothing prepared us to handle, how should we seek God’s guidance? We know that He has promised never to leave […]
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Behold! The Bridegroom Cometh!
By Martin Carey “And at midnight there was a cry made, ‘Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him’” (Matthew 51:6). “The king is coming!” Those words should […]
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Who Shall Separate Us?
MARTIN CAREY Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? (Romans 8:35) The Adventist message […]
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Led By the Spirit of Adoption
Romans 8 has been called the greatest chapter in the Bible for good reason. In 39 verses, it describes the Christian life with a sweeping eternal perspective, building up our […]
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His Faithful Witness
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in […]
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