1999 May
Church, Editorial
Editorial – Purification of the Church, Part IV
What is the objective of the purification of the church? The objectives are: that the church reach perfection here (that each church member becomes faultless in character with every impurity destroyed),...
Church, History
The Road to Persecution, Part I
One of the tapes that we listened to from Elder Frazee was entitled "The Road to Persecution." Back in those days, many things that were written in the Spirit of Prophecy, we understood as only applying to the churches in "Babylon."
Church
How Do You Know if You Are Listening to Error?
We know that the world is rapidly growing worse, and that the apostasy in the church is also rapidly growing worse. These conditions in the world and in the church set up a context of urgency. We have again come to the place where the children of Israel were when the Lord sent a special ... Read more
Church
Holy Flesh and Celebration Music, Part I
The Holy Flesh Movement and Celebration Music - In their meetings, the Holy Flesh leaders used loud instrumental music and hysterical preaching to elevate the emotions of the people to a frenzy until a state of delirium existed.
Church
The Alpha & the Omega of Apostasy, Part II
It seems as if no one expected the vast dimensions of apostasy, although Sister White wrote: "The omega will be of a most startling nature."
Christian Life
"We shall be individually, for time and eternity, what our habits make us." Testimonies, vol. 4, 452. Now that can be a very wonderful thought if our habits are good, or it can be a rather discouraging thought if our habits are not good.
Children's Story
Children’s Story – The Bookmobile
But there was one problem. They had to ride their bikes to get to the bookmobile. Now that in itself was not a problem, because Christi loved to ride her bike.
Food
Food for Life – Diet in the Beginning
The diet appointed man in the beginning did not include animal food. Not till after the Flood, when every green thing on the earth had been destroyed, did man receive permission to eat flesh.
Recipe
2 cups cooked brown rice 1 cup bread crumbs or Grape Nuts 3/4 cup cashew or soy milk 4 T. chopped onion 1 cup chopped nuts 1/2 t. sea salt Combine milk, onion which has been simmered slightly in water and sea salt and pour over the bread crumbs or Grape Nuts and let stand ... Read more
Bible Study Guides
Bible Study Guides – “SHOULD NOT A PEOPLE SEEK UNTO THEIR GOD?”
MEMORY VERSE: "Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God." Leviticus 19:31.
Bible Study Guides
Bible Study Guides – “TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL”
How was Jesus tempted and how did He meet each temptation? Matthew 4:1–11. NOTE: "Satan deals with men more guardedly than he dealt with Christ in the wilderness of temptation,...
Bible Study Guides
Bible Study Guides – “THEY WREST THE SCRIPTURES TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION”
Without the guidance of the Holy Spirit we shall be continually liable to wrest the Scriptures or to misinterpret them. There is much reading of the Bible that is without profit and in many cases is a positive injury.
Bible Study Guides
Bible Study Guides – “IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, THEY SHALL DECEIVE THE VERY ELECT”
"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." Matthew 24:24.
All Bible texts, unless appearing in quoted references or otherwise identified, are from the New King James Version.