How to Preserve Our Health Many have inquired of me, “What course shall I take to best preserve my health?” My answer is, Cease to transgress the laws of your being; cease to gratify a depraved appetite; eat simple food; dress healthfully, which will require modest simplicity; work healthfully; and you will not be sick. It is a sin to be sick; for
Society is not homogenous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognise that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints. - Vilfredo Pareto The doctrine of unity is not one that we often turn to when thinking about secular outreach. In the realm of modernist skepticism, Ch
The Bible is clear, as Seventh-day Adventists have known since the start of our movement, that religious liberty lies at the heart of the final battle which will close the great controversy between Christ and Satan. The book of Revelation depicts that conflict as a choice between the faith and practices of two women (Rev. 12,17), symbolizing respe
What Is Servant Leadership? This chapter tells a story found in three of the gospels.[i] The story unfolds as Jesus and the disciples are traveling through Galilee toward Capernaum, where He takes a reprieve from public ministry to personally instruct the twelve. He tackles issues involving the nature of His kingdom, but in a roundabout way that fi
I know you haven’t heard from me on here in a while, but the coronavirus crashing the market has resulted in a lot of people contacting me with the same question… “What should I do about my investments?!” It turns out that besides the virus itself, the stock market has been making a lot of people sick lately! Specifically, the question peop
The notion of an America besieged by secularism has been around for some time. Despite the fact that even the most recent studies show at least 77 percent of Americans identifying with a particular religious faith[1], with the number claiming to believe in God slipping a scant 3 percent between 2007 and 2014—from 92 to 89 percent[2]—many religious
The youth in general desire the approbation of those around them, and, rightly directed, this desire is commendable. It is an incentive to watchfulness and self-control, rendering them more anxious to manifest a right disposition in their association with others, and therefore more careful as to what they do and say. Those who desire to merit the a
Life is movement. It is change. It is flux. To move is to exist. So, change is part of the fabric of existence. But change comes in countless degrees, from barely noticeable to shockingly fast. On the latter end of the spectrum, we’ve all experienced times when we had too much going on at once. Often, this overwhelming feeling is correlated to the
In the COVID-19 pandemic the world is facing a public health crisis the likes of which we haven’t experienced in over half-a-century. Churches are being urged to take preventative measures up to closing their doors in order to do their part to “slow the curve.” (If you don’t understand that expression, some of what follows will not make sense if yo
A central argument in current discussions on religious liberty and the separation of church and state concerns the two tables of the Ten Commandment law—the first, of course, addressing humanity’s duty to God, the second addressing our duty to each other. There are those who insist that while non-theocratic civil government has no right to legisla
