Alberto Valenzuela

(También español) There comes a time in life when the questions begin to change.

(También español) Fundamental Belief #24 stands as one of the longest and most detailed.

  In a column for The Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan described the mood of our age with piercing simplicity. She wrote of “a pervasive sense of anxiety, as though everyone feels they’re on thin ice.” She added that people seem “unled, overwhelmed,” caught in what she called “a psychological pandemic of fear” about the…

  There is a certain tenderness in the way the aged speak about belief. It trembles at the edge of irony, like a candle in a church basement that has survived too many sermons and too few listeners. When I began reading Reclaiming the Prophet, edited by Eric Anderson1, I imagined a room of gray-haired…

Let us cultivate the grace of gratitude. Let the praises of God and of the Lamb be continually upon our lips; let the heart be a well-spring of gratitude that cannot be repressed, Christ in you a well of water springing up unto everlasting life Ellen White,“Look Not Every Man on His Own Things,” Review…

In the heart of sacred Scripture lies a haunting cry: “Darkness is my only friend” (Psalm 88:18, NCV). This final line of Psalm 88 echoes across time and space, unsettling readers and comforting them in equal measure. Unlike most psalms of lament, which conclude with affirmations of trust, Psalm 88 ends in silence, isolation, and…

From the Law of Moses (Deuteronomy 6:5, Leviticus 19:18), the Psalms (Psalm 41:1-2), and the Prophets (Jeremiah 29:4-7), God has always commanded His people to love and to show mercy. But then, in the New Testament we find Jesus telling His disciples: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as…

  Because I became an Adventist as a teenager, the first time I experienced the Lord’s Supper was an intriguing experience. Beginning with the foot-washing ceremony and followed by the partaking of the bread (what to me seemed to be Wheat Thin crackers) and the tiny cup of “wine,” the whole ritual left me a…

Advantages and Disadvantages The gospel invitation is to be given to the rich and the poor, the high and the low, and we must devise means for carrying the truth into new places and to all classes of people Ellen G. White, Medical Ministry, p. 312 Whatever may have been your former practice, it is…