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  • Volume 30 Issue 2 - July 1, 2025
    • Christians and Politics
    • Jesus Our Substitute
    • Many Prayers Come From Wrong Motives
    • The Eschatological Yom Kippur
    • The Lord's Prayer in the Context of the Great Controversy
    • The Story of David and Bathsheba
    • Worldview Origins: The Role of Religion, the Bible, and Culture – 2
  • Volume 30 Issue 1 - January 1, 2025
    • Living in the Post-Easter Era
    • Ordination Commission in the Old and New Testaments
    • Original Sin and the Seventh-day Adventist Church
    • Otherness
    • The Council of God and the Pre-advent Judgment
    • The Mystery of the Seventh Seal
  • Volume 29 Issue 2 - April 1, 2024
    • Christ in the Covenant Curses?
    • Christians and Creation Care
    • Demonstrating the Great Controversy
    • Real People
    • The Rapture Theory
    • The Torah Abstentions Today
  • Volume 29 Issue 1 - January 1, 2024
    • Atonement in Communal Contexts
    • Minneapolis 1888
    • Pride or Promotion? Hiding or Humility?
    • Sanctuary Colors Through Egyptian Eyes
    • The Case for Ağri Daği/Masis as the Biblical Mt. Ararat
    • Watch Your Language!
  • Volume 28 Issue 4 - October 1, 2023
    • Can You Hear Me Now?
    • The Holy Spirit and Tongues
    • The Newness of the New Covenant
    • The Virtue of Jesus
    • Understanding Spiritualistic Influences From Culture
    • Why Care for the Earth When Jesus Is Coming Soon?
    • Worldview Origins: The Role of Parents, Media, and Education
  • Volume 28 Issue 3 - July 1, 2023
    • First Clothes?
    • The Faith of Jethro: Polytheist or Monotheist?
    • The Issue of Abortion
    • The Music and Mountains of Moses
    • The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus – 1
    • The Perfection Trap: A Second Look at Last Generation Theology
    • Thinking Biblically About the Qur’an
  • Volume 28 Issue 2 - April 1, 2023
    • Eternal Punishment and Immortality of the Soul
    • Glacier View Conference Revisited
    • Hermeneutics for the Local Church
    • Holiness in Hard Times - 2
    • Singing the Lord’s Song?
    • The Aesthetics of Israel’s Sanctuaries
  • Volume 28 Issue 1 - January 1, 2023
    • A Reflection on the "Seventh Day"
    • Are You Happy Now?
    • God at War
    • The Relevance of Scripture for Issues in Marriage and Sexuality
    • The Significance of the Sanctuary in Scripture
    • The Sin Offering and Forgiveness
    • What If the Holidays Bring Hard Times?
  • Volume 27 Issue 4 - October 1, 2022
    • Ethics of Communication in a Digital Age
    • God’s Will—To Know or Not to Know?
    • Of California Rolls and the Sabbath
    • The Days of Creation
    • The Decree to Restore and Build Jerusalem
    • The Spirit of Prophecy in the Second Temple
    • The Tension Between the Second Coming and the Mission of the Church
  • Volume 27 Issue 3 - July 1, 2022
    • Academic Freedom and Adventist Theology
    • Ellen G. White and Mission Work in Cities
    • Ellen G. White and Sola Scriptura
    • Is Babylon the Papacy?
    • Is There a Delay?
    • Science and Belief
    • Where’s the Love in the Old Testament?
  • Volume 27 Issue 2 - April 1, 2022
    • Kaaba and Sanctuary: Qur'ānic and Biblical Cosmic Centers
    • The Nature of the Human Being in Christian Theology
    • Why Theological Education Is Necessary
    • Why Were Some Prophecies Not Fulfilled?
    • On Sola Scriptura
    • Offensive Grace
    • Whence Fellowship?
    • The Depressed Prophet
  • Volume 27 Issue 1 - January 1, 2022
    • Antisemitism
    • Death and Future Hope in the Hebrew Bible
    • Ellen G. White’s Statements on the Heathen Being Saved
    • No War Has Ever Done This!
    • The Nature of Humankind From the Very Beginning
    • Who Decided Which Books to Include in the Bible?
  • Volume 26 Issue 4 - October 1, 2021
    • A God Who Sees and Hears the “Other”
    • A Mind for Beauty
    • A Tale of Two Christmas Carols
    • Daniel and the Second Angel's Message
    • Joseph, Judah, and Jesus
    • The Tree of Life and Ethics
    • What Shall We Say About Sin?
    • Your Neighbors, the Jews
  • Volume 26 Issue 3 - July 1, 2021
    • Christ and Practice in Compassionate Ministry
    • Creation in the Book of Revelation
    • Of Kings and Hearts
    • Principles for Understanding the Biblical Worldview
    • The Meaning of the Fear of God
    • The Personhood of the Holy Spirit
    • Your Neighbors, the Hindus
  • Volume 26 Issue 2 - April 1, 2021
    • Biblical Spirituality
    • General Revelation and Adventist Theology
    • In the Heavenly Places
    • Salvation and the Certainty of the Second Coming
    • The Gospel and a Queen
    • The Nature of Faith—and Science
    • The Punishment of the Wood-gatherer
  • Volume 26 Issue 1 - January 1, 2021
    • Before Adam
    • Genealogies and Biblical Chronology
    • Love the Law? Really?
    • Loving God With Heart and Mind
    • Science and Faith
    • What Happens to Us After We Die?
  • Volume 25 Issue 4 - October 1, 2020
    • Genesis and Creation in the Wisdom Literature
    • Only Human
    • Our Greatest Need
    • Radically New Beginning—Radically New End
    • What Did Jesus Accomplish on the Cross?
    • Your Neighbors, the Buddhists
  • Volume 25 Issue 3 - July 1, 2020
    • Death as Sleep: the (Mis)use of a Biblical Metaphor
    • It Isn't How You Played the Game
    • Social Distancing to Avoid Contagion
    • Taken Up: The Good News About Christ's Ascension
    • The Priesthood of Christ in Luther and Adventism
    • Who Is Job's Satan?
    • Your Neighbors: The Muslims
  • Volume 25 Issue 2 - April 1, 2020
    • Creation and the Certainty of the Second Coming
    • Desmond Ford and the Sanctuary Message
    • The 1870 Purge of the Battle Creek Church
    • The Letter to Laodicea and the Eschatology of Revelation
    • The Meaning of the Sixth Commandment
    • What's So Funny?
    • Why We Don't Worship Three Gods
  • Volume 25 Issue 1 - January 1, 2020
    • "What Is His Name?"
    • Christianity and Other Religions
    • Sanctification and Perfection—the Work of a Lifetime
    • The Holy Spirit in the New Testament
    • The New Testament and Transgenderism
    • The Reliability of the New Testament Scriptures
    • The Wolf and the Lamb
  • Volume 24 Issue 4 - October 1, 2019
    • A Virgin Shall Bear a Child
    • Cosmic Impact of Calvary
    • Creation and the Ten Commandments
    • Ellen White, Health, and the Third Angel's Message
    • Jesus Christ: Savior and Example
    • The Christian and Big Bang Cosmology
    • The Power of Choice and Life
  • Volume 24 Issue 3 - July 1, 2019
    • Biblical Creation and Ancient Near Eastern Evolutionary Ideas
    • The Aesthetic Nature of God
    • The Gift of the Holy Spirit
    • The Reliability of the New Testament Scriptures - 1
    • The Seven Trumpets in Adventism
    • Words of Poetry and Truth
  • Volume 24 Issue 2 - April 1, 2019
    • Atonement in Revelation – 1
    • Creation and the Second Coming
    • Fifty Most Influencial Biblical Figures
    • How Can Miracles Be Possible?
    • How Do We Read Scripture?
    • Huss and the Origins of Protestantism
  • Volume 24 Issue 1 - January 1, 2019
    • Childlikeness
    • Ellen White, Health, and the Third Angel's Message – 2
    • Jesus as YHWH - 2
    • Luther's Idea of Church
    • Miracles and Natural Law
    • The Creation and Evolution Debate
    • Theistic Evolution and Biblical Creation: No Middle Ground
  • Volume 23 Issue 4 - October 1, 2018
    • God, Power, and Gospel in a Postmodern World
    • Jesus as YHWH - 1
    • Seventh-day Adventist Vision and Mission - 2
    • The Unity and Sufficiency of Scripture
    • “Yes, Virginia . . .”
  • Volume 23 Issue 3 - July 1, 2018
    • Gifted, Treasured, and Needed
    • Human Reason and Biblical Hermeneutics
    • Our Praying for the Lost
    • The Faithful and True Witness
    • The Holy Spirit: A Power or A Person?
    • The Righteousness by Faith Controversy
    • What Do You Want to Be Remembered For?
  • Volume 23 Issue 2 - April 1, 2018
    • Ellen White, Health, and the Third Angel's Message - 1
    • Roman Catholicism
    • SDA Vision and Mission
    • Seeing the Rainbow
    • The Bible and Science
    • The Certainty of the Second Coming
    • The Intercessory Ministry of Jesus Christ
  • Volume 23 Issue 1 - January 1, 2018
    • Five End-time Myths
    • Miracles in the Darkness
    • Revelation 10 and Apocalyptic Mission
    • Sociobiology and Altruistic Behavior
    • The Adventist Pilgrim
    • The Interpretation of Scripture
    • The Quest for Joy
  • Volume 22 Issue 4 - October 1, 2017
    • Creation and Theodicy
    • One Nation Under God
    • Repurposed Churches
    • Scripture and the Great Controversy
    • Seventh-day Adventism, Doctrinal Statements, and Unity
    • Sin and Salvation in Genesis 3
  • Volume 22 Issue 3 - July 1, 2017
    • Ceremonial Uncleanliness and Contemporary Application
    • Christ Our Only Advocate
    • Religion Illustrated
    • Revelation’s Perspective on Persecution
    • The Meaning and Message of the Beatitudes
    • To What Extent Does Archaeology Confirm the Bible?
    • What the Bible Says About Its Own Authority
  • Volume 22 Issue 2 - April 1, 2017
    • An Unconventional Look at Theodicy
    • Archaeology and Old Testament Biblical Theology
    • Ethics for the Invisible
    • Fooling Mother Nature?
    • Is God Different in the Testaments?
    • The Salvation of Animals?
    • Whose Authority Do I Accept?
  • Volume 22 Issue 1 - January 1, 2017
    • How Can God Allow Suffering?
    • Seeing Through Heaven?
    • The Genesis Account of Origins
    • The Mission–Charity Dilemma
    • The Revelation of God
    • What Does “Inspired” Mean?
    • When Death Was Not Yet
  • Volume 21 Issue 4 - October 1, 2016
    • Are There Moral Absolutes?
    • Ellen G. White’s Theology of Tithing
    • The Cosmic Conflict: Revelation’s Undercurrent
    • The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible
    • The Fawn, the Lamb, and the Lion
    • The Word Is God
    • Truth and Fear
  • Volume 21 Issue 3 - July 1, 2016
    • Ellen White’s Passion for Jesus and the Scriptures
    • God’s Loyalty Program
    • Peter Abelard’s Theology of Atonement
    • Souls Under the Altar
    • The Challenge in the Seventh-day Adventist Name
    • When the Pain Is Over
    • Why the Bible Is So Difficult to Understand
  • Volume 21 Issue 2 - April 1, 2016
    • A Biblical View of Ecumenical Relations
    • A Critique of the Antimodern Quest
    • A Strange Anomaly
    • A.I. Anxiety
    • Health Reform in the Writings of Ellen G. White
    • Is the Bible Historically Reliable?
    • The Cross and the Wrath of God
  • Volume 21 Issue 1 - January 1, 2016
    • A Fact of Life
    • Eternal Punishment in Hell?
    • Judgment in the Seven Churches
    • The Formation of the New Testament
    • The Literal, Simple Sense of Scripture
    • The Tongues in 1 Corinthians
    • Who Is the Author of the Bible?
  • Volume 20 Issue 4 - October 1, 2015
    • Delay and Promise
    • Evolutionary Thought and Spiritualism
    • Gospel Hemi-neglect
    • Recent Attacks on the Character of God
    • Resurrection in the Old Testament
    • The Old Testament Canon
    • “The Truth of the Thing”
  • Volume 20 Issue 3 - July 1, 2015
    • Children of Rahab: Second-generation Faith
    • Moses’ Meek Leadership
    • The Apocrypha
    • The Promise “I Am Coming Soon!”
    • The Rise of Global Christianity
    • The Sanctuary in the Psalms
    • To Be Misunderstood
  • Volume 20 Issue 2 - April 1, 2015
    • Luther’s Creation Theology
    • Nebuchadnezzar and God
    • Seriously Now!
    • The Holy Spirit and Biblical Interpretation
    • The Resurrection and the Old Testament
    • The Scholar and the Word of God
    • What Does It Mean to Be a Prophetic People?
  • Volume 20 Issue 1 - January 1, 2015
    • All (Material) Evidence to the Contrary
    • How Creation Leads to the Bible
    • Praying for Difficult Persons
    • Sanctuary: Cosmos, Covenant, and Creation
    • The Holy Spirit in the Hebrew Scriptures
    • What Does the Bible Say About Origins?
    • “At Home With the Lord”?
  • Volume 19 Issue 4 - October 1, 2014
    • Evolutionary Evidence Since Darwin
    • Justification in the Gospels
    • On Being the Remnant
    • Sometimes Addition Is Subtraction
    • The Balance of (Human) Nature
    • The Everlasting Covenant
  • Volume 19 Issue 3 - July 1, 2014
    • Archaeology and John’s Gospel
    • Choosing a Bible Translation (2)
    • God’s Artistic Impulse
    • Levels of Change in the Emerging Church
    • Origins and the Seventh-day Adventist Church
    • The Biblical Worldview
    • The Reality of the Heavenly Sanctuary
  • Volume 19 Issue 2 - April 1, 2014
    • Choosing a Bible Translation (1)
    • Ellen G. White’s View of Divine Inspiration
    • Prayer That Pleases God
    • The Holy Spirit in the General Epistles and the Book of Hebrews
    • The Religious Left and the Religious Right at End-Times
    • The Rise of the New Apostolic Reformation
    • “Lost in Information”
  • Volume 19 Issue 1 - January 1, 2014
    • A Closer Look at the Emerging Church
    • From Sect to Church
    • God’s Everlasting Covenant
    • Judge Not
    • The Bible and Its Cultural Context
    • The Remnant After the Exile
    • Umpteenthman Rises Again
  • Volume 18 Issue 4 - October 1, 2013
    • Are There Mistakes in the Bible?
    • Gospel Sadness
    • How Do We Know What Is True?
    • In Defense of the Year-day Principle
    • Pluralism in Judaism
    • Theistic Evolution and Adventist Theology
    • To Animal Rights and Beyond
  • Volume 18 Issue 3 - July 1, 2013
    • Definition by Opposites
    • End Times and Salvation
    • God’s Character in the Bible and the Koran
    • Mary—A Prophetess?
    • The Trinity in the Old Testament
    • Toward a Theology of Beauty
    • “Neighbor” Is a Verb
  • Volume 18 Issue 2 - April 1, 2013
    • Apocalyptic and Free Will
    • Early Adventist Views on Calvin and Calvinism
    • Focus
    • Looking at the End From the Beginning
    • Sabbath and the New Covenant
    • The Need for a Deflection Strategy
    • What Is Armageddon?
  • Volume 18 Issue 1 - January 1, 2013
    • Are the Bible and Science in Conflict?
    • Considering Levitical Food Laws
    • God’s Loving Wrath
    • Is 2520 a Prophetic Number?
    • Praying for Our Leaders
    • The Ecclesiological Role of Ellen G. White
    • Which Way Is North?
  • Volume 17 Issue 4 - October 1, 2012
    • A Close Look at the Adventist Mind
    • An Entertaining Virus?
    • Daniel’s Message to Modern Man
    • Preparing for the Second Coming
    • The Church and Scripture
    • Why the Trinity Matters (Part 2)
  • Volume 17 Issue 3 - July 1, 2012
    • 300
    • A Second Look at the First Advent
    • A Survival Guide to Mayan Prophecies
    • Does God Care About Oxen?
    • God’s Judgment as Salvation
    • How to Interpret Genesis
    • Why the Trinity Matters
  • Volume 17 Issue 2 - April 1, 2012
    • Abortion, Darwin, and Grace
    • Identity, Exclusivity, and Inclusivity
    • Interpreting Scripture According to Scripture
    • Losing Faith in Science
    • Pluralism and the Adventist Church
    • Sabbath and Sanctification
    • The Emerging Church
  • Volume 17 Issue 1 - January 1, 2012
    • Did Christ Have a Beginning?
    • God’s Surprising Silence
    • Jesus Only
    • The Development of Fundamental Belief Number 6
    • The Heavenly Sanctuary in the Book of Revelation
    • Troubling Self-Portraits
    • Well Positioned
  • Volume 16 Issue 4 - October 1, 2011
    • Divorce and Remarriage in the Old Testament
    • Is the Theory of Evolution Scientific?
    • John 8:42 and the Trinity
    • The Debate Over Justification by Faith
    • The Touch of Peace
    • What Is Faith?
  • Volume 16 Issue 3 - July 1, 2011
    • Creation in the Old Testament Prophetic Literature
    • Jesus as Begotten
    • Justification by Faith
    • Obedience in the Letter to the Hebrews
    • The Relevance of the First Angel’s Message
    • Who Is You?
  • Volume 16 Issue 2 - April 1, 2011
    • Compromising the Authority of Scripture
    • Jephthah and the Grace of God
    • Mission of God’s People in the Old Testament
    • Nature’s Contribution to Creation Theory
    • Of Atheists and Foxholes
    • Relating to the Bible 2
    • Why Theology Matters
  • Volume 16 Issue 1 - January 1, 2011
    • Beyond Emergent
    • Facing the Gas Chamber
    • Principles of Worship and Liturgy
    • Relating to the Bible 1
    • The Ten Commandments and the Character of God
    • When Meaning Fades Away
  • Volume 15 Issue 4 - October 1, 2010
    • Armageddon: Atonement's Ultimate Victory
    • Ecumenism: At What Cost?
    • Flaws in the Tapestry
    • God, the Trinity, and Adventism
    • The Trinity in the Old Testament
    • Uplifting a Recent Creation
  • Volume 15 Issue 3 - July 1, 2010
  • Volume 15 Issue  2 - April 1, 2010
  • Volume 15 Issue 1 - January 1, 2010
  • Volume 14 Issue 4 - October 1, 2009
  • Volume 14 Issue 3 - July 1, 2009
  • Volume 14 Issue 2 - April 1, 2009
  • Volume 14 Issue 1 - January 1, 2009
  • Volume 13 Issue 4 - October 1, 2008
  • Volume 13 Issue 3 - July 1, 2008
  • Volume 13 Issue 2 - April 1, 2008
  • Volume 13 Issue 1 - January 1, 2008
  • Volume 12 Issue 4 - October 1, 2007
  • Volume 12 Issue 3 - July 1, 2007
  • Volume 12 Issue 2 - April 1, 2007
  • Volume 12 Issue 1 - January 1, 2007
  • Volume 11 Issue 4 - October 1, 2006
  • Volume 11 Issue 3 - July 1, 2006
  • Volume 11 Issue 2 - April 1, 2006
  • Volume 11 Issue 1 - January 1, 2006
  • Volume 10 Issue 4 - October 1, 2005
  • Volume 10 Issue 3 - July 1, 2005
  • Volume 10 Issue 2 - April 1, 2005
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