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Romans: The Clearest Gospel of All
#13 – The Reign of Sin and Grace I receive in the mail now and then a little package that comes from Palo Alto, California. It’s a bunch of papers called “Discovery Papers” and they are actual transcripts of Biblical sermons preached by…
Gospel Issues in Adventism
#15 – The Remnant When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for…
Built Upon the Rock
Chapter 10: The Remnant and Its Mission Fundamental Belief #13The universal church is composed of all who truly believe in Christ, but in the last days, a time of widespread apostasy, a remnant has been called out to keep the commandmen…
The Cross of Christ
Chapter 4 – The Resurrection Any study on the Cross of Christ is incomplete without touching on the resurrection. Not only was the resurrection of Christ everything to His disciples, but it plays a vital part in our redemption and, in t…
Understanding the Gospel
1 – The Righteousness of God In 1972, my family and I had the “privilege” of being deported from Uganda by Idi Amin. I say “privilege” because the other alternative was to be put into a concentration camp and be shot. When we left, we l…
The Parables of Jesus
The Parable of the Royal Marriage Feast Matthew 22:1-14: Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited…
Built Upon the Rock
Chapter 17: The Sabbath Rest Fundamental Belief #20The beneficent Creator, after the six days of Creation, rested on the seventh day and instituted the Sabbath for all people as a memorial of Creation. The fourth commandment of God’s un…
Dynamics of the Everlasting Gospel
Chapter 11 – The Sabbath Rest The good news of salvation, realized in the holy history of Jesus Christ, is often described in the New Testament by the word “rest” [Matthew 11:28; Hebrews 4:2-3]. Since the Fall, this promised rest in Chr…
Gospel Issues in Adventism
#13 – The Sabbath/Sunday Issue My first introduction to Adventism was anything but good news. I was told quite emphatically that if I, a Roman Catholic, did not change my day of worship from Sunday to Saturday, I would receive the Mark…
Gospel Issues in Adventism
#9 – The Sanctuary Message One of the major doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is the sanctuary message. This is how the main thrust of this fundamental doctrine is described: There is a sanctuary in heaven, the true tabernac…
The Sanctuary
9 – The Sanctuary Polluted Daniel 8:9-12: Out of one of them came another horn, which started small but grew in power to the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful Land. It grew until it reached the host of the heavens, and it t…
The Three Angels' Message
Part 3: The Second Angel’s Message We are going to look at the second angel and his message for us and the world. Now I want to remind you of two things that we have covered so far. Number one, that the Three Angels’ Message is one mess…
The Sermon on the Mount
3 – The Second Beatitude: Penitence We’re in Matthew, Chapter 5. We began two studies ago this great sermon, Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. We did in the last study the first Beatitude: “Blessed are the poor in spirit,” verse 3, “for their…
Gospel Issues in Adventism
#10 – The Significance of 1844 (Part 1) On page 409 of The Great Controversy, Ellen G. White makes this statement: The scripture which above all others had been both the foundation and central pillar of the advent faith was the declarat…
Gospel Issues in Adventism
#11 – The Significance of 1844 (Part 2) “Unto 2,300 days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” This scripture, wrote Ellen G. White, was the foundation and central pillar of the advent faith (Great Controversy, page 409). In the last…
The Saviour of Mankind
4 – The Significance of Christ’s Humanity to Us At the heart of the Christian faith is the affirmation that Christ, the Son of God, became man in order to be the Saviour of the world. According to one spiritual giant, “the humanity of t…
Saviour of the World
Chapter 12 — The Significance of Christ’s Humanity to Us At the heart of the Christian faith is the affirmation that Christ, the Son of God, became man in order to be the Saviour of the world. Ellen White declared that: SDA Bible Commen…
Romans: The Clearest Gospel of All
#3 – The Sin of Self-Righteousness I want you to imagine that you are sitting in the church of Rome when the epistle to the Romans is first read. An elder or a scribe or leader has been reading chapter one, verse 18 up to verse 32. Whil…
Dynamics of the Everlasting Gospel
Chapter 1 – The Sin Problem Since the gospel is God’s power to save men from sin, it is important that we begin our study with a brief outline of the sin problem before we turn to its solution which God has prepared for us in Christ. It…
The Sermon on the Mount
7 – The Sixth Beatitude: Pure in Heart Our study today will bring us to Matthew 5:8: Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Before we look at this beatitude it would be most helpful if we remind ourselves of some things t…
The Sermon on the Mount
23 – The Speck of Sawdust and the Plank Matthew 7:1-6: “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the…
The Holy Spirit
3 – The Spirit in Mission John 16:7-11: But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will convict the wo…
The Holy Spirit
4 – The Spirit in the Believer Romans 8:9-17: You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. Bu…
Understanding the Gospel
9 – The Supreme Sacrifice In the back of my Bible, I have two quotations that I read very often to remind me of the direction of my preaching. The first one is: Gospel Workers , [Ellen G. White], p. 315: “The sacrifice of Christ as an a…
