Bring on the Desert!

Note: This commentary is based on the Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath School Quarterly, First Quarter 2016, Lesson 6: “Victory in the Wilderness.”...
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The Stranger in the Gate

Then Haman said to King Xerxes, “There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves...
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Our Faithlessness, His Faithfulness

It would be better not to read the book of Judges than to read it without reading a big chunk of the rest of the Bible too.  Read by itself, it is...
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Not Unique to Adventism, But the Heart...

This quarter’s Sabbath School lesson is on the Great Controversy—that most distinctive of Adventist doctrines. According to the late Herb Douglass,...
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Come Immanuel: God’s Reign of...

The prophetic quest for “judgment and righteousness” is the quest for fairness and justice upon the earth.  It represents the collective sigh of the...
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Why Go to Egypt?

Ishmael and his men, under the order of Baalis the king of the Ammonites (Jer. 40:14), assassinated Gedaliah,who was appointed governor over Judah by...
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The Covenant

Among the 52 chapters of the prophetic book of Jeremiah the most intriguing concept is the New Covenant. Would we like to know what is a “Covenant”...
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The Destruction of Jerusalem

Every few hundred years, there are events that redefine a nation, a people, at its very core.  Consider the shift in internal vision and circumstance...
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Jeremiah versus Judah: The Nature of...

 
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Symbolic Acts: Helpful, but Potentially...

Lesson #6, for discussion on Sabbath, November 7, 2015 The prophet Jeremiah was fond of symbols and that spells trouble for a believing community...
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