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    Some Will Walk Alone During The Holidays: And That's OK

    The natural world has a power to inspire the best and soothe the worst within each of us. It has much to teach us about the wilderness within, and about the "greater power" manifest in the grandeur of nature. Superficial and naively upbeat spirituality does not heal and enrich the soul. Nor...
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    The Second Coming of Christ

    This topic will deal with the official Adventist statements on and Fundamental belief regarding the second coming of Christ. Most threads here that have anything to do with this topic are pretty negative and ominous sounding - yet the Bible portrays a much more positive outlook on the second...
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    Help In Daily Living: From Ministry Of Healing

    This topic is dedicated to a newer forum member - amandatea, who I had promised to start this for in another topic here on the Forum: This first post will just have the preface to Help In Daily Living to get a brief idea of the flavor this topic is intended to take on: Lots more to come...
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    Accuser of the Brethren

    Criticism Makes You Bad News: Not Good News Criticism can be destructive. It’s in the Bible, Galatians 5:15, NIV. "If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other." Criticism of others often covers the need for self-criticism. It’s in the Bible...
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    Hey thanks

    For those of you who have been praying for me; I wanted to say a big thanks. I just got home from hospital, and will make a full recovery in a couple of weeks. I thought I would start this thread to give people a chance to just say thanks for something. :D
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    A Word In Season

    A Word In Season “Knowing just when to speak can be just as important as knowing what to say when you do speak.” The Bible talks a lot about our communications with one another; and one of the things I have found fascinating is to study these, and write out what I find, and then...
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    The Beautiful Tree Of Life

    I like to write out various devotional/study thoughts from scripture, sometimes using an old book and taking notes from it. For this topic, I am using an old book published in the mid-eighteen hundreds called "The Beautiful Tree Of Life." It is so old and faded that it is impossible to read the...
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    Try A Little Kindness

    We Have Got To Try A Little Kindness Kindness is not something you do; it is something you are. "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate." Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965) 'Try A Little Kindness' -...
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    We Have Got To Try A Little Kindness

    We Have Got To Try A Little Kindness Kindness is not something you do; it is something you are. "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate." Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965) 'Try A Little Kindness' -...
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    The Loud Cry

    The Loud Cry When Adventists talk about “the loud cry;” they are usually referring to Rev 18:1-5 It is important to note here that “the earth was lightened with his glory;” at the time of this loud cry; and also, we have not yet reached the point in our world’s His-Story where “all nations”...
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    Praise The Lord

    Inspite of any disagreements we might have floating around, there should always be something to praise The Lord for! Let us show some unity in joining together to praise the Lord! For this topic; we should always have it at the top, meaning people posting praises all the time - and we invite...
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    Stand At The Cross And Be Changed

    In this topic I will be roughly following along in a book written by Lonnie Melashenko, and John Thomas McKlarty, called "Stand At The Cross And Be Changed." I will be kind of editing it, and adding some of my own thoughts as we go along, so it will be a mix of my own material and that of...
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    The Experience Of Salvation

    This topic is intended to discuss the official Adventist Belief on Salvation. I hope you will be blessed with the study of this topic, as I know I have been. Here is the official statement: In infinite love and mercy God made Christ, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, so that in Him we might...
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    The Message Of The Cross

    Since this forum is a discussion zone, more intended for new Adventists, or for those making honest inquiries, without all the debate and arguing, please remember to keep it nice. :D As Adventists, we do teach that we are a people of the Bible and that we can teach any of our doctrines using...
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    God's Amazing Forgiveness

    Ever since I gave my life to Christ and joined the Adventist Church; there have been members who have faithfully taught me some great things out of the Bible. I think that 'the greatest of these is love." The person who was responsible for bringing me to Christ never once judged me or...
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    Stand At The Cross And Be Changed

    This topic is your personal invitation to join all those who have gone before us, and were there at the cross to watch Jesus die. People of all kinds stood there that day. Let us strive here to see through their eyes, this greatest event in human history; and how what they saw, may affect us...
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    Sabbath School

    For those who enjoy attending the Adventist Church Sabbath School each week, or for those who are interested, but cannot attend personally, I thought it would be a good idea to start this topic, for discussing each week's lesson. Sabbath School is something I look forward to very much each week...
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    Time For A Recap

    Its time for some of us to go back and recall the rules of this sub forum that is only for Traditional Adventists, and respectful discussion of their beliefs, rather that a systematic tearing down and critisizing of them. Here are the rules as stated by Forum Management: Now I went back a few...
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    Holy Saturday?

    May I please ask of the Catholics here what this means? I am always interested to hear what others believe and why, and I read somewhere here on the Catholic forum that a member was baptized "on Holy Saturday." As you might imagine, that has caught my interest a little. Anyone willing to help me...
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    Testimony About Grandmother

    I recall some very dark times when I was a little boy, and, as strange as it may sound; I have many fond memories of those times I can still see her showing up on our door step with boxes of her home made pies and tins of lovingly made bran muffins, just wanting to bless us some how with a...