Chapter 5: The Covenant From Sinai
We now come to the Sabbath as instituted in the Ten-Commandment law given on Sinai. With this law the Sabbath either stands or falls. A covenant was made […]
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February 8–14
Lesson 7: “From the Lion’s Den to the Angel’s Den” Daniel in the lions’ den is another of those stories we heard as children. On the surface, it is […]
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Are you sitting in a faulty chair?
This weekend our minister taught me a wonderful lesson. He came onto the platform with a wooden chair in each hand. He placed one on each side of the pulpit, […]
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How Ephesians Contradicts Adventism #12
Adventism Warps Our Understanding of Scripture Ephesians 4:17–32 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility […]
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February 1–8
Lesson 6: “From Arrogance to Destruction” This week, we read the story of Belshazzar and the night his kingdom was lost to him and turned over to the Medes […]
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Chapter 4: The Sabbath on a Round Earth
In their very nature all purely moral laws are universal and eternal in their application, are binding in heaven, in Eden, on Jews or Gentiles, saints or sinners, now […]
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Moving Away from Legalism
When one learns the gospel and leaves an adventist sect such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists, Christadelphians, or the old-style Worldwide Church of God, he or she often feels adrift, unable to understand or even to evaluate how to find a Christian church to attend.
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My Struggles with Adventism’s “Non-Assurance”
By Dennis L. Palmer, PhD In nearly every worship service, Dennis Hester, the Senior Pastor of a Texan Southern Baptist church, offers an invitation for those who are not sure […]
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January 25–31
Lesson 5: “From Pride to Humility” The story of Nebuchadnezzar’s fall and restoration is a good object lesson on the dangers of pride as illustrated by these quotes from […]
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Chapter 3: The Jewish Sabbath Ceremonial in Nature
“Ceremony. Outward rite; external form in religion.”—Webster. “An outward form or rite in religion; anything or observance held sacred.”—International Encyclopedic Dictionary. This is exactly what the observance of the […]
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Suffering with the Body of Christ
It’s January and my turn to blog. I knew this date was coming, but with all the busyness of Christmas vacation, I decided to wait to work on it […]
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January 18–24
Lesson 4: “From Furnace to Palace” This week, we have arrived at a story that we loved as children. Who doesn’t like a story about bravery, integrity, an evil […]
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Chapter 2: The Sabbath a Jewish Institution
Law-teachers try in every way possible to evade the fact that the Sabbath was only Jewish. To admit this would prove that they are trying to revive an abolished institution […]
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Beautiful—But Where’s the Gospel?
Reflections on a Loma Linda University Church Service By Peter Zenthoefer It was the Saturday after Christmas, and I accompanied some out-of-town relatives who wanted to attend Loma Linda […]
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Are there apostles and prophets today?
As often happens, we received a significant question in a recent email—and this one addressed the troublesome subject of apostles and prophets. It came from a woman who had just […]
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