Welcome to the New Format GreatControversy.org
HTML PDF | GCO an Issue-Oriented Site Seeking to Uphold the Third Angel's Message, 15 August 2002
Long Live Adventism!, 1 August 2002
(Who's) Liking the Review Better and Better?, 25 July 2002
Recent sermons:
(Welcome to Utopia) Jesus: The Way, 29 June 2002
Personal Testimony, 22 June 2002
Salvation: Do the Math, 27 June 2002
Neurons at the Altar of Post-Modernism -- What Shall We Choose?, 13 June 2002
Recent Sermons:
Before the Deluge, 25 May 2002
I Want to Belong, 8 June 2002
Sabbath Convenience?, 23 May 2002
Final Triumph, 16 May 2002
For Pastors: How to Be a Bad Guy, 9 May 2002
Vanishing Point, 2 May 2002
One Crazy Idea Leads to Another, 25 April 2002
Generic Adventism?, 18 April 2002
Musical Tinsel and Vanity, 11 April 2002
Weblog Report: Norway 2002 Meetings
Regular Adventists, 21 March 2002
Duty or Desire?, 14 March 2002
The Cities: To Leave or Not to Leave, A Guest Editorial by Dave Westbrook, 21 February 2002
On Detecting Fanatics . . . 14 February 2002
Boundaries 31 January 2002
Who's Kingdom? 24 January 2002
A Debt We Owe 11 January 2002
2001: A Denominational Odyssey 27 December 2001
Take My Year, Please 20 December 2001
The Vine, pt. 2 13 December 2001
The Vine, pt. 1 6 December 2001
Laodicea and the Silent Majority a Guest Editorial by Kevin Paulson 30 November 2001
Chased Forward 22 November 2001
Three-headed Monsters 15 November 2001
Salvation on the Cheap 8 November 2001
A Living Witness 1 November 2001
Unplugging the Incubator 25 October 2001
Deadly Age, Lucid Work 18 October 2001
A Test by John Kannenberg. 11 October 2001
A Little Dream 4 October 2001
The October Ministry Magazine: Irony Illustrated by Kevin D. Paulson 27 September 2001
|
|
| 20 September 2001 |
Pacific Union Crisis: Mammon, Jello, and Expediency | Standing for truth. |
| 13 September 2001 |
Pacific Union Crisis: Let the Good Men Cease From Doing Nothing | Those in responsible positions are responsible. Next question. |
| 6 September 2001 |
Pacific Union Crisis: In Support of the World Church | Rebellion or not? |
| 30 August 2001 |
Roll Over and Die | We never will . . . |
| 23 August 2001 |
"Traditional" Seventh-day Adventism Revisited | Rejecting the clever tags |
| 16 August 2001 |
The Church is Not Walmart | It had to be said . . . |
| 9 August 2001 |
Appreciating the Work of Christ | His blood applied. |
| 2 August 2001 |
Sheep Shearers R Us | Cheap baptisms -- not. |
| 26 July 2001 |
The Fear Card | Demonic tricks and ploys exposed. |
| 19 July 2001 |
Late Words | An editorial published "late" gives pause. |
| 12 July 2001 |
Ecumenism or Adventism | Title says it all. |
| 5 July 2001 |
Every Day | Pray for our leaders. |
| 28 June 2001 |
The Blazing Search for Gray | Are the Scriptures "gray" on homosexuality -- really? |
| 21 June 2001 |
Jolly Ministers, Ellen G. White | Careful counsel for solemn times. |
| 14 June 2001 |
Howling at the Moon | Chris Blake's concepts of grace, inexplicably published in the Review, are discussed |
| 7 June 2001 |
Frankenstein's New Monsters | How much of Babylon shall we incorporate into Seventh-day Adventism? |
| 31 May 2001 |
Life in Reference to the Day of Judgment | How shall we live ina time of peace and safetyism? |
| 24 May 2001 |
More on Joshua and the Angel (or) IJ Lite | Clifford Goldstein's article begs for correction and receives it. |
| 17 May 2001 |
Taken to Task | Spend a few momenets with some the of the queerest ideas and theories out there, and see their bankruptcy. |
| 9 May 2001 |
Hijacked By Mr. Stupid? | Where are we going? What trends shall we follow? |
| 3 May 2001 |
So Just Who Is a Pastor Anyway? | Does calling oneself one make oneself one? Are these folk from "Big Face Grace" pastors? |
| 26 April 2001 |
The Return of the Remnant #2 | More on the music of the remnant |
| 19 April 2001 |
The Return of the Remnant #1 | Recovering the attitudes and goals of our pioneers, taking a look at what they sang about |
| 12 April 2001 |
You Have a Voice | We have opportunity to make thigns right. Will we use it? |
| 5 April 2001 |
The Adventists Visit Temple Square. Part 3: Feelings in the Rotunda Room | The feeling paradigm in action. |
| 29 March 2001 |
The Adventists Visit Temple Square. Part 2: A Discussion About the Seventh day Sabbath | Discussing the seventh day Sabbath with the Mormons. |
| 22 March 2001 |
The Adventists Visit Temple Square. Part 1: Reflections About Who We Are | Different ways of knowing come to light. |
| 15 March 2001 |
Seventh-day Adventism: Still the Best Message Going | We're not leaving, and they're not staying anyway. |
| 8 March 2001 |
"Search For Identity" Book Reinforces Doubt, Guest editorial by Larry L. Lyons | Evidence right before our eyes. |
| 1 March 2001 |
Wanted: Conservative SDA Pastors | Don't loose hope. You are needed and in considerable demand! |
| 22 February 2001 |
Why We "Don't See Anything Wrong" , Guest Editorial by Samuel Koranteng-Pipim | How the new worship fads are accepted and why |
| 15 February 2001 |
An Open letter to Pacific Press About Signs Magazine | SDAs do not support pro-homosexual sentiments being expressed in our main missionary publication. |
| 8 February 2001 |
Adventists Left Behind | Why we're not taken with the herd |
| 1 February 2001 |
The Buck Stops Here. Guest Editorial, William Eichner | Time to get back to what we are supposed to be about |
| 25 January 2001 |
Who's MC? | Are you message-centered, or centered on error? |
| 18 January 2001 |
Men of Reform Needed by Ellen G. White | Astonishingly up-to-date words. |
| 11 January 2001 |
Any Way You Please | We can't just worship God any way we please. |
| 4 January 2001 |
From Satan With Love | You're on his Christmas list, really. |
| 28 December 2000 |
Adventism 2001: A Call for Change | New year coming, new possibilities abounding |
| 21 December 2000 |
Translation or Bust | Live to see Jesus come with your own eyeballs. |
| 14 December 2000 |
Is SDA Mainstream? | What ever gave us the idea that we were a mainstream church, or that we wanted to be known as one? |
| 6 December 2000 |
In Search Of . . . | What are we looking for? |
| 30 November 2000 | Authority or Service? | Old thinking or Bible thinking? |
| 17 November 2000 |
Christians and the Copyright Law |
Important food for thought. When thney copywrote the new Bible translations, they created an important issue.
|
| 10 November 2000 |
Echo |
A divided church echoes in some ways a divided country.
|
| 3 November 2000 |
Do the Work of an Evangelist #2 |
More on the work of an evangelist today.
|
| 26 October 2000 |
Dead Models in a Time of Confusion | Where, really are you reading "reams of theological trash"? |
| 19 October 2000 |
Do the Work of An Evangelist #1 | What is this work?
|
| 12 October 2000 |
The Spin-Thing |
When the truth gets a "spin-doctering" treatment, there must be alot of embarrassment to go around.
|
| 5 October 2000 |
Gift Beyond Price |
How precious Jesus is in this times of trouble.
|
| 28 September 2000 |
Under the Cone of Silence |
Those charged with "impression management" have subdivided SDAs into two categories: those offline and those online; those with a much narrower channel for information intake, and those with a significantly less restrained one. |
| 21 September 2000 |
Ghost in the Machine |
The sky is falling on the new-modelers. |
| 14 September 2000 |
Time and Place: Sharing Our Prophetic Faith in the Internet Age |
We face two options. We must either minimize our historic teachings and let them eventually drop away out of sight, or we must relearn how to share forthrightly, wisely, and very plainly, heaven's message for this time. |
| 7 September 2000 |
Unity That's Not |
Church legislation can never really enforce unity. Yet shared vision will always produce a unity not needing to be written-up in a doctrinal list.
|
| 31 August 2000 |
Why I Pray For My Conference President |
Good counsel for each one of us. |
| 24 August 2000 |
Concentrated Fire |
We mustn't lose sight of the goal in spite of the inroads of liberalism all around us in our church. |
| 18 August |
Did
Ellen White Almost Start an Independent Ministry? |
Surprizes from history. Bet no one's shown you this interesting fact . . . |
| 10 August 2000 |
The Wrong Message at the Wrong Time |
Misguided fealties to the new theology foisted upon Adventism in the 1950s continue to lead a subgrouping of certain leaders in the church to attack Hope and Hartland. Has this continuing attack any legitimacy? |
| 3 August 2000 |
Those Whom I Will Trust |
Let the Word sift whom we read and hear. |
| 27 July 2000 |
Hallway of the Blind Watchmen |
How long will we follow those who are misguided? |
| 20 July 2000 |
A Tool-box For the Times |
Tools for survival in the midst of ideological spin-doctoring
|
| 6 July 2000 |
Fire or Sparks? |
Will "centering" on "mission" for the next five years and eliminating thought on "issues" meet the needs of the hour, or is it fanciful thinking in a time where lucidity is demanded? |
| 29 June 2000 |
The Catharsis Trap | As individuals we must do the Lord's work. Nothing can stop us
|
| 22 June 2000 |
Recovering the Vision—A clarion call to participants at the General Conference Session in Toronto | Turn O Israel!
|
| 8 June 2000 |
Haven't Been there. Haven't Done That | Why haven't we finished the work? The Spirit of Prophecy clues us in: we haven't uplifted the law of God as we've been mandated to |
| 1 June 2000 |
True Protestantism by M. L. Andreasen | The burrowing inroads of higher criticism threaten to take away even that which we have |
| 25 May 2000 |
Two Ways of Numbering Israel | Shall we glory in baptismal numbers, or shall we weigh our effectiveness by how many workers among us are giving an authentically SDA message? |
| 18 May 2000 |
More and More Relevant by Robert Pierson | Our General Conference President saw with trembling where we might go... |
| 11 May 2000 |
Are Seventh-day Adventists "Seventh-day Adventist" Anymore? | What is a Seventh-day Adventist? Does our name make us what we are, or does what we are determine whether we are "Seventh-day Adventist" or not? How should the church handle issues surrounding the use of the SDA name? |
| 4 May 2000 |
Hope in the House of Mirrors | Technology has changed the way the church can work. The essence of what Adventism is is no longer controlled by a few thought-leaders. Discussion of the hope this new situation grants us |
| 27 April 2000 |
Colors of Condescension | A indignant response to Caleb Rasado's awful Review article |
| 20 April 2000 |
Lost by Grace? | What version of grace are you being propagandized with? |
| 13 April 2000 |
Making the Wrong Appeal | Appealing to the the sensuality of our youth through worldly music distorts our witness for Christ |
| 6 April 2000 |
No Compromise by Robert E. Pierson (former GC President) | Another clarion call by this leader. |
| 30 March 2000 |
Needed: Iconoclasts and Reformers | Are you ready to reform, or shall we all just keep gliding along? |
| 23 March 2000 |
Is "Jesus Loves You" Enough? | How words are used today to misrepresent truth |
| 16 March 2000 |
The Magicians of Egypt Are Here! | Wrong evangelistic methods are being used today to try to articifially reproduce a work that only God can do |