I'm Offended, Part 1 My wife recently gave birth to our third child, and one of the many questions we have as we watch her grow is what her personality will be like. Both our eldest and our newly crowned middle child are distinct in approaches to life — yet there is o... Read more
Ditches On an idyllic late spring afternoon, a friend and I cruised a curving country road in his convertible. These were the halcyon days of fuel prices, so the throaty throb of the big V-8 gulping gallons of gas dampened our enthusiasm not one iota. Col... Read more
Spiritual AIDS “Pastor!” It was Sonja. She had a homosexual twin brother who had contracted AIDS in the bowels of San Francisco. Life was fading fast, and Jim wanted to come home to his churchgoing sister’s family so he could die in peace. Sonja wondered if I wo... Read more
Why Children Leave the Church, Part 2 Why do children grow up Seventh-day Adventists and then leave the church? Last month we talked about how parents shouldn’t automatically blame themselves if they lose their kids to the world, basically because everybody gets to choose God for them... Read more
Our Core Value Adventist education is a core value of the Seventh-day-Adventist Church. From our very beginnings, we have recognized that education must be key in our strategy to minister to the whole person: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Th... Read more
Opinion "A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion" Proverbs 18:2 (ESV). Read more
God's Measurement of Success When I graduated from high school, I already had two years of college classes under my belt. Having participated in Washington State’s Running Start program, all of my prerequisites were finished, and I was ready to move to Walla Walla and conquer... Read more
