One distinctive SDA doctrine for which I am most grateful is the Great Controversy. Over the last thirty years, as I have read widely among …

As I have written elsewhere, being a Seventh-day Adventist provides a wonderful identity. Looking at that identity in terms of relationship only makes it deeper …

“Wait a minute!” some have said. “This whole ‘building a relationship’ business seems too elaborate, too complex. I mean, maybe God just wants to save …

“He’s a good head elder, but he has a vile temper.” I was the incoming teacher to a church school, and a member of the …

We have been looking at the stages of friendship in order to understand salvation in relational, rather than legal, terms. A saving relationship begins, we …