Walking in the light
Bible Truth & the Christian Life
The Sabbath, the state of the dead, the fate of the wicked, the gift of prophecy, and how the Old Testament rehearses the New — the recovered truths and how to live them.
The Great Controversy
The war behind all of history — from the rebellion in heaven to the restoration of all things
Open the Bible anywhere and you walk into the middle of a war — not between nations, but behind them: a conflict older than the human race, fought over one question every thinking creature eventually asks — is God good? Scripture tells one continuous story about it, from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22. This in-depth, Bible-first study lays out the great controversy for newcomers: the rebellion of Lucifer in heaven, the real issue (God’s character and government, not raw power), why God did not simply destroy the rebel, the war’s arrival on earth, the promise of a Deliverer, the cross as the decisive battle, the conflict raging now, and the final vindication when all creation confesses that God’s ways are just and true. Built directly from the text.
The Three Signs of a False Religion
The serpent told three lies in one breath — and nearly every false religion since is built on one of them
There are thousands of religions and no time to study them all — but you do not have to. Nearly every false system rests on one, two, or all three of the same lies, and all three were spoken in a single conversation beside one tree in Eden (Genesis 3:4-5): “Ye shall not surely die” — the deathless soul; “ye shall be as gods” — the self made divine; and “knowing good and evil” — man made his own judge of right and wrong. This study walks each lie through the worldviews that carry it — from spiritualism, Rome, and Islam to Hinduism, the New Age, Mormonism, Freemasonry, secular relativism, and even, on the first lie, much of modern Christianity — then hands the reader a three-question test to spot the serpent’s fingerprint on anything, and the three gospel truths that answer each lie.
Christ Our Righteousness
How a sinner stands accepted before a holy God, by faith alone — the gospel the Reformers staked everything on and the pioneers recovered
Underneath every religion, and every fear that wakes a soul at three in the morning, lies one question: how can a sinful human being stand accepted before a holy God? The true gospel — what the Reformers called the article on which the church stands or falls, and what the pioneers recovered in 1888 as “Christ our righteousness” — answers not by our own law-keeping but by a righteousness received as a gift, wrought out in Christ’s real human life and put on by faith alone.
The Sabbath
Genesis 2:3 · Exodus 20:8
The seventh day, sanctified at creation; the perpetual seal of the living God, written by His finger in stone.
The Seventh-Day Appointment
Creation, the great controversy, and the love appointment at the centre of the week
Genesis opens with an architecture so simple the eye almost misses it. In six days the Creator builds the world. In a seventh day He fills it with Himself. The first three days fashion the spaces; the next three fill the spaces; and on the seventh day, when the spaces of matter and motion are complete, the Creator opens one more space — a space in time — and fills it not with another creature but with His own presence. That seventh-day space is what Scripture calls the Sabbath. It was never given as a test of obedience — the tree of knowledge was given for that. It was given as the meeting place between the Creator and the new creature He had just made. This article walks the Sabbath through five movements: the architecture of creation week, the great-controversy backdrop, the Sabbath as a love appointment, the day as test of allegiance after the fall, and the Sabbath in the eternity of the new earth.
State of the Dead
Ecclesiastes 9:5 · 1 Thess. 4:16
The dead know not anything; they sleep in the dust until the trump of God awakens them at the resurrection.
Hell: What the Bible Really Teaches
Conditional immortality, the lake of fire, and the second death.
Common teaching says the wicked live forever in conscious torment. Scripture says they perish — consumed, destroyed soul and body, reduced to ashes by a fire whose results, not duration, are eternal. A companion study to the State of the Dead pillar.
The Health Message
Your body is His temple — the Bible’s practical kindness about the one body you were given
The gospel is not only about the soul; the God who will raise the body cares about it now. This deep-dive study walks the biblical health message from its foundation — the body as the temple of the Holy Spirit — through the Eden diet and Daniel’s ten-day test, the eight simple gifts, and the modern vindication (the Adventist longevity research, Loma Linda among the world’s “Blue Zones”) — and the heart of it: a gift and an act of gratitude, never a ladder to climb.
The Third Temple
Not a building of stone in Jerusalem, but the living temple God is raising of His own people — and the presence that comes down to fill it
A sanctuary study. Three pictures — the glory that filled the wilderness tabernacle, the light that rested on Christ at His baptism, and the tongues of fire at Pentecost — teach one pattern: God’s presence is greater than the contents. The thread lands on Emmanuel, “God with us,” the Father dwelling in His Son, and on the believer as the true third temple, indwelt by the very life and presence of Christ.
Spirit of Prophecy
Revelation 19:10
The testimony of Jesus, manifested in the writings of Ellen G. White — a lesser light to lead us to the greater light.
Typology
How the Old Testament rehearses the New
Type and antitype is not a poetic flourish. It is the architecture of Bible revelation — the method by which God taught the gospel for two thousand years through living shadows, so that when the Substance came, His people could recognise Him.
The Bible's Many Cases of Typology
A catalogue of the shadows, one by one
The Old Testament is not a separate book with a separate hero — it is the same story told in shadow before it was told in substance, and the substance is always Christ. A type is a real person, object, or event God shaped in advance to prefigure something greater. This is the catalogue: the many cases of typology one short entry at a time — persons who prefigure Christ, the sanctuary and its service, the feasts of the LORD, and the events and institutions built as shadows — with the types Scripture itself names kept plainly apart from the strong parallels it leaves unlabeled.
Ellen White and the Hard Questions
The “false prophecy” charges and the plagiarism question, answered from primary sources
Two charges have been levelled at Ellen G. White for more than a century: that she made specific prophecies that failed, and that her writings are plagiarized rather than inspired. Both deserve a fair answer rooted in primary sources, biblical principle, and the way prophecy and inspiration actually work. This article walks the charges one at a time, returns each quotation to its original context, and tests both the prophecies and the inspiration question against the Bible’s own standard.