A Dangerous Role to Play

If I were still an Adventist I would NOT be playing the role which I am playing for my friend Writer/Director/Producer  Daniel Medina Jr. in his upcoming Christian film The Thief in the Night. Since however I’m now a Christian my Salvation is secure and I’m sealed by The Holy Spirit as a Guarantee/Down payment for a certain place in Heaven. No longer do I have to be afraid of falling out of…and climbing into Salvation.

I’ve said this a number of times in the past but that Adventist teaching of salvation is woefully inadequate, Jesus saves By Grace through Faith- PERIOD!

Salvation is not a revolving door, it is not the hokey pokey.

A Fair Fight between Christ and Satan?

What's wrong with this picture? A LOT.

I’m sure the vast majority of people who’ve visited this blog have seen this picture in some shape or form. It’s certainly a striking concept, it’s well done artistically and in that case it has merit. However what it depicts is a gross distortion of scripture, the Word of God is quite imperative, Satan was defeated on the cross this is not an even battle.

Jesus is God and Satan is a Created Being

The first thing that is so very wrong about this artwork is that it puts Jesus who is God at the same level of strength as Satan who is a created being. Remember all of creation came through the Voice of The Father, God the Son, the Word, Jesus Christ. Therefore Jesus Christ is in a position of superiority over Satan simply because He is God and His very utterance brought Lucifer, who fell from Grace and became Satan, into existence.

Shock and Awe- Blasphemy at Market Night

Last night was a rare night that I had a week off in my Thursday Night Mens Bible Fellowship study so this enabled me to share my faith at Market Night (Redlands, California). I work with a small group of believers who go to The Packinghouse (Calvary Chapel in Redlands California) who share their faith through the revelation of God in Science and the Bible.

After a couple of witnessing opportunities and around an hour and a half I chose to head off to catch a bus back to Highland, but on the way down I wanted to check out a booth I had noticed on my walk of the street earlier. I had seen books and magazines and wanted to see if it was Christian and if their product was free.

So I walked over and felt in my Spirit that this was not of The Spirit. And of course The Spirit was entirely correct. What I found was not Christian but Adventist- and although the person sitting told me that items were free I knew in reality that they came at great cost. The cost of Slavery to the Law.

Exposing Adventism: Date Setting

Seventh-Day Adventists recently released a supplemental magazine with the latest issue of Signs of the Times. In it they tackle the 2012 Doomsday talk, which is just pointless if you are grounded in the Bible. However they also attack date setters, including a list of date setting years…they mysteriously (not really) leave off the date setting failure that the Adventist Church was built on top of!

The U.A.

FAF 2012: Truthstreams of Living Water

Early Arrival

I made sure I arrived early in fact I arrived over an hour early, that wasn’t exactly by design but it was certainly God’s plan. Let me tell you I did not expect the main guest speaker for the weekend Phil Bubar to be the one to open the door and let me inside. It was very nice to meet Phil and get to chat with him a little before the first presentation. That said I was glad I got in as early as I did because it enabled me to set up my laptop and all it’s accessories, I needed to be prepared to Tweet or Facebook or whatever the weekend.

Surprise!

Once all my stuff was set up in the back of the room I went to talk to Richard Tinker because he had been talking about the possibility of livestreaming the event. Much to my (happy) surprise I found that indeed we were going to be sending the event out live over the internet, and with that knowledge I went back to my laptop, opened the page, and logged in.

FAF Weekend 2012: Worldview Alignment Needed: First Thoughts

A number of weeks ago I sat back thinking about how I would do coverage of FAF Weekend 2012 (FAF 2012). I felt really bad about so lousily following through on all my grand plans after my first FAF Weekend last year, I was determined not to drop the ball this year. Grand ideas flooded my overly creative noggin and I worried that I’d have pathetic coverage all over again- such is not the case this year.

I have a lot on my mind after this weekend. Both theologically and personally. I have new questions and old answers and new answers to old questions- there’s a lot bouncing around in my mind that hasn’t quite become grounded. There a lot of truth, about Truth (Jesus who is God) that I’m going to be contending with. That I’m going to be struggling with.

I’m going to be “working out my salvation with fear and trembling-” something we’re called to do, for a long time. And working out your salvation doesn’t mean that you’re worried about being saved or not…it means your studying into the depths of the Gospel and it’s ramifications to you on a personal level. It’s a call to never leave the awesome news, the challenging depths of the Gospel, but to feed on that truth and the Power of the Cross, and the washing of the Blood that was shed by Jesus Christ- the God Man- the Messiah. His blood shed for us- to quote our main speaker Phil Bubar-

“Christ became an ABOMINATION for us.”

Hello from FAF 2012 (Short Loud Video)

Here’s a short video of welcome to the Livestream viewers.

Watch the sound it is LOUD!

D. McAnders

Watch the Truthcast of the FAF 2012 Conference!

Hello Folks!

Please feel free to check out the Live Truth Cast of Former Adventist Fellowship (FAF) 2012 Worldview Alignment Needed Conference at the following address.

 
FAF Conference 2012

We hope you enjoy.

In Christ,

D. McAnders

A Valentine for Adventists

1  Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ. 

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2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready,
3 because you are still fleshly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and living like unbelievers?

1 Corinthians 3:1-3 (HCSB)

I’d like to begin by saying that I am very sorry for the lack of postings in this blog, but it has also been the case with the other blogs I run, I’ve simply been exceedingly busy. However I had to continue my posting here in order to make more things about Adventism clear to both Adventists and Christians, because while Adventism my seem like Christianity on the surface it is beneath the waters that the shoals lie to tear out the bottom of the spiritual boat.

One of the things about Adventism that I remember very clearly is our feelings of entitlement and elitism, we had the truth, we were the ones who had it right, it was only us- we were the chosen ones. We worshiped on the right day, we had the writings of our prophet (false) Ellen G. White, whe had a special knowledge that God had called us into being to divulge to a lost in sinfilled world. We were the only ones who could give that message, everyone else, including the vast reams of Christians who went to church on Sunday had it wrong. We voraciously set out to proselytize Christians, and we still do to this very day, if you are not grounded in the word of God the Adventist Church will swallow you up into a black hole. Led into a swampland of legalism, rules that we say we keep but don’t, Laws that we say we must keep but we can’t, and a salvation that is as easily lost and found and lost again as a slippery bar of soap in a shower.

My Commentary is up for this Weeks SDA Adult Lesson Study!

Hello guys!

I’m sorry I haven’t posted here in a good long while but I’ve been very bus with all kinds of projects going on.

For my Adventist friends who are going through the Book of Galatians in their Adult Sabbath School lesson I did the commentary on it for Bible Studies for Adventists for the current study about Paul’s Preaching Style.

Here’s a link to the page that overviews the entire week. Week 9 SDA Adult Lesson Study Commentary.

Check it out.

God Bless,

U.A.