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Ellen White : Woman Of Vision
$28.99Add to cartEllen G. White (1827-1915) is a widely translated American author–her works have been published in more than 140 languages. Though her formal education ended at the age of 9, her literary productions totaled approximately 100,000 pages on such topics as health, education, family, Bible history, and practical Christian living. Today millions look to her writings for guidance and motivation.
During her lifetime she experienced more than 2,000 dreams and visions. These provided a rich source of divine wisdom from which she drew for her extensive writings. As God’s servant she wrote letters of encouragement, counsel, and reproof to church members and leaders around the world, in many cases dealing with secret, personal matters.An accident in her youth resulted in years of frail health, yet in addition to her writing she managed to run a home that often resembled a hotel while raising three sons and coping with the emotional difficulties of her husband after he suffered a series of strokes. In her later years she helped lead the Seventh-day Adventist Church into a deeper understanding of the fundamental doctrines of Christianity. Her lifelong message was that Christ is coming soon and that we must be ready to meet Him. The last sentence she ever uttered before the church’s world assembly, as she raised a Bible above the pulpit, was, ”Brethren and sisters, I commend unto you this Book.”
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Ellen Whites World
$16.19Add to cartContents
Part One: Ellen White’s World Before The Civil War
1. Millennial Visions
a. Religious Millennialism
b. Secular Millennialism
2. The Great Revival
a. The Second Great Awakening
b. The Camp Meeting
c. The Revival And Mission
3. The Era Of Reform
a. The Voluntary Society
b. Health Reform
c. The Early Temperance Movement
d. Educational Reform
e. The Movement To Free The Slaves
f. The Role Of Women
4. Religious Impulses
a. The Rise Of The “Democratic” Churches
b. Restorationism And Back To The Bible
c. The Drive Toward Perfection
d. Protecting The “Sabbath”
e. The Rise Of Mormonism
f. The Rise Of Modern Spiritualism
g. Nativism And Anti-Catholicism
5. Technological Advances
a. The Publishing Revolution
b. Progress In TransportationPart Two: Ellen White’s World After The Civil War
6. A Changing World
a. Social Changes
b. Intellectual Changes
7. Millennial Visions
a. Premillennial Perspectives
b. Postmillennial Perspectives
c. National Millennial Perspectives
8. Religious Impulses
a. Revivalism And The Role Of D. L. Moody
b. The Rise Of Protestant Liberalism
c. The Conservative Reaction
d. The Holiness Revival
e. The Second Wave Of Protestant Missions
f. Northern Missions To Black America
9. Social Issues
a. The Temperance Movement
b. Health Concerns
c. Educational Development
d. Racial Issues
e. Women’s Rights
f. Capital And Labor
g. Sabbath Reform
h. The Progressive Movement
10. The New Leisure
a. Sports And Recreation
b. EntertainmentPerspective
Ellen White And Her World
Ellen White And Our WorldAdditional Info
From the Back Cover:Ellen White’s writings are important, but they are only part of the story. The other part is the social and intellectual context in which she wrote. What was her world like? What problems did it face? What ideas were in vogue? What religious movements did she interact with? How did her ideas relate to the sentiments of other reformers of her day?
These and other questions stand at the heart of George R. Knight’s third volume in his series on Ellen White. The genius of Ellen White’s World is that it combines photographs with verbal descriptions to make Ellen White’s world come alive for the modern reader.
The first section of this helpful volume concisely presents the world of Ellen White prior to the American Civil War, while the second section examines her world after that climactic event. An understanding of those two very distinct contexts is essential for the fullest understanding of Ellen White’s counsel to the church
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Reading Ellen White
$20.99Add to cartEllen White wrote in the late 1860s to a church member that “eggs should not be placed on your table. They are an injury to your children” (Testimonies, vol. 2, p. 400). Then in 1901 she told another member to “get eggs of healthy fowls. Use these eggs cooked or raw. Drop them uncooked into the best unfermented wine you can find” (Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 204).
How do you reconcile such seemingly opposite statements from the same inspired author? Which one was inspired? Or were both? How do we interpret them-and everything else that Ellen White wrote?
George R. Knight sets forth in a clear, simple manner the principles that will help every reader to interpret and apply her counsel to his or her life.
In the first section of Reading Ellen White Knight looks at the purpose of her writings, their relationship to the Bible, the role of compilations, and how to read her work systematically. The second and longest section examines fundamental principles of interpretation, and the final section explores how to apply Ellen White’s counsel to both our lives and the lives of others. Reading Ellen White is a companion to his Meeting Ellen White. Size: 5 3/16″ x 8″.
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Ellen The Girl With Two Angels
$12.59Add to cartMabel R. Miller
“Ellen White’s great-granddaughter shares her family stories of Ellen when she was growing up. This Early Reader book (7-9 year old) inspires children with stories about how God helped Ellen and spoke to her as she grew up and became His prophet.
Ellen grew up like any other child in the 1800’s. With her twin sister, Elizabeth, she brought the cows home for milking, fed the family dogs, learned to read, and loved to play.
When she was still young, Jesus began to speak to Ellen in dreams and visions. “Ellen, tell people what I have shown you. Tell them I am coming soon.”
But Ellen was worried. “Jesus, I’m afraid. I can’t speak to people.”
“Ellen,” Jesus promised, ” your angel will always be with you. And I will send an extra angel anytime you are in danger.”
So Ellen, the girl with two angels, became a messenger for God.”
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Later Elmshaven Years 1905-1915
$17.59Add to cartThis last volume in the six-volume biography of Ellen White is devoted to the last decade of the fruitful life of this messenger of the Lord. It covers the establishment of the Loma Linda Sanitarium, the San Francisco earthquake, and the establishment of Pacific Union College. During this time she also published the 1911 edition of The Great Controversy, and during the next few years produced several other books.
Although the author (Ellen White’s grandson) spent his working lifetime involved in the custody of the Ellen G. White writings, as he did the research for this biography, he was amazed at the frequency and number of visions given to Ellen White during the last decade of her life. What did not amaze him, however, was the substantial influence these visions exerted as the counsels given were heeded and the reproofs were received and integrated into the thinking and actions of church members and leaders.
It was the author’s wish and prayer “that the portrayal presented in this volume, which covers the crowning decade of Ellen White’s ministry and sets forth her optimistic attitudes, her concerns for the church, and her confidence in its triumph, may help us to know her better, understand her ministry more fully, and lead to the reading and rereading of the counsels she has left as a legacy.”
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Australian Years 1891-1900
$17.59Add to cartThe nine years Ellen White spent in Australia introduced her to new and different living and working conditions. It also placed upon her responsibilities in some areas she had not previously borne. Nearing her sixty-fourth birthday, she was reluctant to interrupt her work of writing and leave America for a distant field of labor, but near the close of her sojourn she could write, “God sent me to Australia.”-Letter 175, 1899.
The resources from which this volume was developed have been full and exceptionally rich. Ellen White, anticipating a published account of her work overseas, reported, “I have kept up my diary, as afar as possible, of our labors in Australia and in Europe.”-Letter 36, 1910. Her experience in producing biographical sketches of her life in 1860, 1876, and 1885 led her to see the value of such records. The manuscript “Australian Experiences”; her diaries; her reports of activities in the Review and Herald; and her correspondence, especially letters to her sons Edson and William and two or three close associates in America, have provided the prime sources
Ellen White performed a dual ministry in Australia. She virtually pioneered the work in that new field; at the same time she nurtured and counseled, through her letters, the church in America, presenting what God set before her in vision. She wrote carefully and with sympathy and understanding, but at times there were firm message pointing the way God would have His work managed, or correcting a course of action on the part of individuals that if unchanged would be detrimental to them and to the cause of God.
This volume will help you see Ellen White as an individual-a wife, mother, neighbor, and friend-as well as the messenger of the Lord, laboring tirelessly in the pulpit and on the public platform in declaring God’s message and in counseling often and writing incessantly with an influence felt around the world.
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Progressive Years 1863-1875
$17.59Add to cartVolume two of the Ellen G. White biography traces the development of James and Ellen White’s leadership roles in the infant Adventist church. By 1875, their roles were well-defined-James as apostle and organizer; Ellen as messenger of the Lord.
The events covered in this volume include the health reform vision of 1863, organization of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, establishment of Battle Creek College, and the beginnings of a church-sponsored journal, a publishing house, and a medical institution in the West. J. N. Andrews was sent as a missionary, camp meetings were introduced, and Ellen White became a much-sought-after public speaker and a prolific author. James and Ellen became advocates of good health and urged reform.
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Early Years 1827-1862
$17.59Add to cartAbout The Author
Foreword
1. The Messenger Of The Lord In Our Midst
2. Abrupt Changes In Ellen’s Life
3. 1844–The Year Of Expectation And Disappointments
4. Make It Known To Others
5. The Messenger Of The Lord At Work
6. Sustained In A Continued Ministry
7. Entering Married Life
8. Laying The Foundations
9. The Sabbath And Sanctuary Conferences And The Development Of Doctrines
10. Heaven-directed Travels And Important Visions
11. Beginning To Publish
12. The Summer The Tide Turned
13. The First Winter Of “The Gathering Time”
14. Mixed Experiences In “The Gathering Time”
15. Girding Up For A Mighty Thrust
16. The Shut And The Open Doors
17. The Message Pushes To The West
18. Nurturing The Developing Church
19. Through Hours Of Darkness
20. Settling Administrative And Theological Questions
21. Working In A Changed Atmosphere
22. Soul-shaking Experiences For The Ministers And Laity
23. A Year Of Many Visions
24. The Great Controversy Vision And Broader Concepts
25. Financial Support For The Cause Of God
26. Through 1859 With Ellen White’s Diary
27. The Opening Of The Year Of Little Joy
28. Initial Steps In Church Organization
29. Pointed Reproof And Heartfelt Confessions
30. The Struggle For Church Organization Continues
31. The Clouds Of War
32. The Year 1862 Closes On An Upbeat
Bibliography
Appendix A
Appendix B
Apenndix C
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When All Alone I Stand
$29.39Add to cartDrafted! As World War II raged around him,
Jan Doward fought his own battles to be classified
as a conscientious objector.A wisecracking prankster with acting potential, some of his buddies said he was destined for the stage. But God had another destiny in mind–and a life-changing encounter at sea.
Some of Jan’s bunkmates knew the Scriptures. One day their testimony hit home. “Oh, God!” Jan prayed, “forgive me for all of my selfish and sinful ways. Forgive me for taking the name of Christ without living His life. You can have all there is of me. It isn’t much–only a tough-talking, smart-acting guy–but You can have me!”
Jan rose from his knees a new man. But his dream of taking over the family ranch would soon be shattered by a letter from his mother. “I’d rather have you a thief,” she wrote, “than a Seventh-day Adventist!”
Doward’s remarkably detailed chronicle of Army life shows God’s providential leading and saving grace for those who dare to stand alone.
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Jose : God Found Me In LA
$21.59Add to cartNot promising. That would sum up the childhood of Jose Rojas.
Born into an abusive home, Jose grew to fear his father’s drunken rampages. “Mama, what’s wrong with me? Why do I make you and Dad fight so much?”
Then things got worse. In school the other kids laughed at his accent, tormented him, called him “skunk” and “dirty Mexican.”
His mom called him “my dreamer.”
Then the Rojas family stumbled onto some followers of an ancient Jewish carpenter. Several of them saw something extraordinary in Jose, this young would-be upholsterer. They mentored him. Believed in him. Encouraged him . . . and prayed with him.
Jose overcame failing grades, fanaticism, and institutional inertia to develop a life-changing youth outreach based on love and prayer. Follow him through a street ministry in Fresno, where he becomes the target of a gang who trash his house, to meetings with the president of the United States. Today his preaching is in worldwide demand, and he serves a as mentor to others.
And his dad has become a loving, spiritual presence in the family.
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Walking With Ellen White
$12.19Add to cartEllen White was a real person who lived in the real world. Too many perceive her as some kind of “vegetarian virgin Mary.” You will be surprised to find that her life was so much like ours. Do you have marriage problems? So did she. Do you have a wayward child? So did she. Do you enjoy a good laugh? So did she. Do you struggle in your Christian walk. So did she.
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Gladys Aylward : The Small Woman With A Great God (DVD)
$20.99Add to cartGladys Aylward (1902-1970) may have been small in stature at barely five feet tall, but she was a giant of conviction! Even Hollywood was amazed by her story and made a movie about it, entitled The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.
This fascinating documentary presents the events of Gladys’ life, chronicled by Carol Purves, author of Chinese Whispers: The Gladys Aylward Story and accompanied by photographs, illustrations, and recordings of Gladys’ own voice.
Young Gladys sensed a calling from God to leave London and go to minister in China. She worked as a parlormaid for many years until she had enough money saved for her passage. In 1930, she boarded a train and after many weeks and harrowing situations, she finally reached her destination.
In China she assisted aging missionary Jeannie Lawson. Together they opened an inn for mule drivers and told them stories about Jesus. After Mrs. Lawson died, Gladys began to take in unwanted children, eventually numbering about 100. With Japan invading China full force, Gladys and the 100 children traveled for days on foot across the mountains to safety. Gladys continued her work with children until her death in 1970.
See how this ordinary woman experienced the extraordinary, simply because she said “yes” to God.
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Beyond The Veil Of Darkness
$17.59Add to cart“It was a bright and sunny Sabbath morning . . . the day on which I fully expected to die.
With these words Esmie Branner begins to unfold a story of heart-pounding intrigue and modern-day miracles that will deepen your faith in a God who still intervenes to deliver His children from destruction.
Beyond the Veil of Darkness is an intimate first-person account of the struggles, opposition, and courageous triumph of a young Christian woman who clung to her faith in Jesus Christ despite the physical and mental abuse of a Muslim husband. Though you will at times be tempted to think you are reading a suspense novel, the events described here are true.
In these pages you will read of her three sons’ abduction to a foreign country and her flight to Saudi Arabia to reunite her family. Through her words you will experience the persecution and isolation that awaited her in this strange land where open adherence to Christianity could result in death. And you will rejoice in the triumph of her faith that brought about miraculous interventions and Daniel-like deliverance.
Esmie’s story shows what it really means to surrender “all” to Jesus and to be tried in the fire. The impressions you receive from this thrilling personal testimony will be etched into your mind and heart forever. It is truly an unforgettable and awe-inspiring account of God’s faithfulness and power over the forces of darkness. -
Early Writings
$28.99Add to cartAdventist Faith in the 1850s
This volume is a comprehensive selection of Ellen G. White’s published writings from the 1850s, along with a prologue explaining the historical background of the text. The autobiographical section of the book describes the author’s conversion experience, the Millerite movement of 1840-1844, and the early visions that formed the foundation of her theology and ministry. A second section contains counsel on various matters pertaining the experience of the early Adventist believers.
The final half of the book traces salvation history from the fall of Satan in heaven to the final end of sin and sinners. This material forms the core of the later five-volume Conflict of the Ages Series.
Ellen White’s bold apocalyptic imagery helped to shape a movement centered on the hope of the Second Coming. This volume bears witness that God continues to reveal Himself through dreams and visions to chosen individuals today.
