ABOUT C. Raymond Holmes
C. Raymond Holmes, BA, MDiv, Mth, Dmin is a graduate of Northern Michigan University, the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, and Andrews University. After serving 10 years as a Lutheran Minister, he converted to Seventh-day Adventism in 1971 and has served the church as pastor, missionary, seminary professor, and author. Among his books are "Stranger in My Home, Baptized But Buried Alive, Sing A New Song, The Last Word, The Tip of the Iceberg." He was one of the founders of Adventist Affirm and the Adventist Theological Society, and served on the editorial board of the Journal of the Adventist Theological Society. His wife, Shirley, preceded him in death in January, 2022, and In his retirement, he continues to serve the Michigan Conference as senior pastor of Christ Community church of Seventh-day Adventists in Bessemer, Michigan.
OVERVIEW
No one is immune to the ambush of the enemy's temptation to accommodate the current culture and traditions in our secular world today. The only hope of continuing the reformation begun by Luther is to rely upon the authority of God's word without compromise. Learn the importance of required unity to complete the mission and purpose of the church, for "indifference and neutrality in a religious crisis is regarded of God as a grievous crime and equal to the very worst type of hostility against God." (3T280.3)
Speaking of Luther and the other reformers, Ellen G. White wrote: "The experience of these noble reformers contains a lesson for all succeeding ages. . . In our time there is a wide departure from {the Scripture's} doctrines and precepts, and there is a need of a return to the great Protestant principle--the Bible and the Bible only as the rule of faith and duty. . . The same unswerving adherence to the Word of God manifested at that crisis of the Reformation is the only hope of reform today." (GC:204-205)
ABOUT-- C. Raymond Holmes
C. Raymond Holmes, BA, MDiv, Mth, Dmin is a graduate of Northern Michigan University, the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, and Andrews University. After serving 10 years as a Lutheran Minister, he converted to Seventh-day Adventism in 1971 and has served the church as pastor, missionary, seminary professor, and author. Among his books are "Stranger in My Home, Baptized But Buried Alive, Sing A New Song, The Last Word, The Tip of the Iceberg." He was one of the founders of Adventist Affirm and the Adventist Theological Society, and served on the editorial board of the Journal of the Adventist Theological Society. His wife, Shirley, preceded him in death in January, 2022, and In his retirement, he continues to serve the Michigan Conference as senior pastor of Christ Community church of Seventh-day Adventists in Bessemer, Michigan.
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