A Distinctive Calling Seventh-day Adventist health care has been around for more than a century. What began as a humble sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, has expanded into a worldwide health system that has touched millions of lives around the globe. As vice chairm... Read more
Birth of Buffalo Signals Christs Imminent Return Birth of Buffalo Signals Christ’s Imminent Return Read more
Adventist Education Does Matter One of the significant questions asked about Adventist education is whether or not children who attend Adventist schools remain in the Adventist Church as adults in substantially greater numbers than children who do not. The recently published res... Read more
Cynical About Evangelism If you’ve grown a bit tired of or even a bit cynical about traditional public evangelism, read on because I can certainly relate. It was not until I had been in ministry many years that I preached my first series of meetings. Having recently compl... Read more
Divinely Inspired Sabbath Schools My father vividly recalls what it was like growing up on the plains of North Dakota. His was one of the fortunate families to have electricity and therefore a radio, but no television or telephone.The weekly schedule consisted of hard work and mor... Read more
Whatsoever Things Are Pure Mark Twain was once asked what he thought of Richard Wagner's music, to which he replied, "Well, it's not as bad as it sounds."There seems to be a bit of the same rationalization among society at large and Christians in particular when it comes to... Read more
Turning Visions into Reality A Story of Success A Story of SuccessTwenty years ago, a young pastor named Tom walked into my office at the North Pacific Union Conference where I was the youth director. In the next few minutes he articulated a vision. This in itself was not noteworthy. Lots of pe... Read more
My Friends with Young Families, Remember: The Cats in the Cradle The Cat’s in the CradleWhen our kids were small, some well-meaning sage would comment to us, “Well, enjoy them now because before you know it, they’ll be gone!” We’d patronizingly nod our assent, realizing that what they said was, in fact, true. B... Read more