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There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.
In the News:
| Adventist General Conference Organized 150 Years Ago this Week The Seventh-day Adventist denomination began as a very small, regional fellowship of mostly house-church groups in the United States, but it was soon to develop a world vision and a broad concept of mission. Within a few years it had started a hospital, a college, schools and city missions. It soon began to connect with believers in other nations and began sending missionaries, both officially sponsored and independent, self-supporting workers. The prophetic gift exercised by Ellen White, who was still in her 30s at the time of the GC founding session, constantly spurred innovation, expansion and a broad vision for the movement.... |
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| Blessing of the Hands at Adventist Hospitals in the Chicago Metro Area "It may be something new to many Seventh-day Adventist Church members," a veteran pastor told Adventist Today. "It is common to ask for God's blessings on meetings, new or refurbished buildings, vehicles and printed materials. In health care the hands of the professionals and trained workers are all more important than any of those things, so it is a logical extension of a long tradition."... |
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| Pacific Union Conference Ordains Theology Professor Jean Sheldon On April 27, eight months after its highly disputed vote to approve women’s ordination, the Pacific Union Conference officially recognized Pacific Union College (PUC) religion professor Dr. Jean Sheldon as an ordained minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Sheldon is the only female professor in PUC’s religion department.... |
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| What did the Australian Census Really Tell Us About Church Growth? What we need to understand with the Australian Census data is that it only records what denomination people identify with. It is not exclusively about church attendance but also includes people who have had past affiliation with the church. It does not accurately record growth in membership and so the need to view other data is crucial as it tells a totally different story.... |
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| Volunteer Physician Missing from Adventist Mission Trip in Ukraine A massive search is being organized for Thursday morning (May 16) to find Dr. Jay Sloop, a physician from Yakima, Washington, who was in Kiev, Ukraine, with a team of volunteers helping the Seventh-day Adventist Church set up a lifestyle medicine center there. The 77-year-old takes a walk every morning, usually with friends, but left the place he was staying by himself at 6:45 on Tuesday morning despite the fact that a roommate could not accompany him. He told the roommate that he would be back for breakfast in 45 minutes, according to The Spokesman-Review, a Spokane daily newspaper, but did not return.... |
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Dr. David Wilbur: Power and Illusion: Religion and Human Need: Part 12 - Ervin Taylor Religious diversity might be explained by one God who loved diversity or by many Gods who each created his preferred religion or lastly by the powerful human mind interacting with its complex environment. Religious thought and behavior might have given an evolutionary survival advantage to groups or individuals and therefore supported the development of a biological propensity for such belief.... |
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Hymns Our Mothers Taught Us - Lawrence Downing From earliest times hymns have served to unite and inspire Adventist believers. Our hymns, whether by intent or default, express in subtle and direct ways our theology and practices. The hymns published in early Adventist hymnals reflect or, perhaps in stronger terms, shaped how the first Adventists understood their community, their mission and their world.... |
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Why Does Life Have to Be so Hard? - Katelyn Pauls Why do things have to hurt? Why do we have to feel lonely or sad or broken or distressed? Why do relationships end? Why do people shut others out? These are just a few of the questions running around in my head. Some of them I have had to deal with regarding the way I treat others. Some of them I have to deal with regarding the way people have treated me.... |
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Overlooked Themes in Amos - Mark Gutman As I worked my way through the recent Sabbath School lessons on Amos, I wondered which verses or themes would be featured and which would be ignored. We can do the same exercise in our approach to life. What are we missing?...If we’re not careful we end up imitating the Pharisees. Big on doctrine and talk and criticism; low on concern and action for those who need it.... |
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Some Thoughts on the Book of James - Andy Hanson In my opinion, the author of the original letter believed that theological and political problems in the church could best be solved when Christians treated each other as friends. The author of the attached letter placed his confidence in legalistic and authoritative solutions. Could it be that the philosophical tension in this letter reveals an early struggle to establish Christian orthodoxy regarding the nature of God?... |
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The Mini Great Controversy - Stephen Foster Certainly, we all know of or have heard of The Great Controversy between Christ and Satan. Our mini internal controversy is about the testimonies to the Seventh-day Adventist Church that have come from the pen of Ellen G. White, through the inspiration of God.... |
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A Big Question - Preston Foster Is the Adventist narrative of the Investigative Judgment consistent with the Bible?...The question is a big one. Like many important questions, the response is, too often, focused on the questioner instead of the question itself. Scapegoating (i.e., name-calling, labeling, or ascribing negative motives) or martyring (i.e., victimizing) the questioner avoids the issue.... |
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Recent Comments:
Nathan Schilt commented on Million-Dollar Salaries in Adventist Healthcare
2013-05-23 12:34 PM
In the interests of space, Mark, I am responding here rather than above. I agree that from a global economic scale I am in the top 1%. Neither you nor I need half - or even a quarter - of what we earn to be solvent or happy. We...
Darrel Lindensmith commented on Dr. David Wilbur: Power and Illusion: Religion and Human Need: Part 12
2013-05-23 11:33 AM
Chris, you don't find it at all interesting that great atheists, Flew, Nagel and others of late, have opened their thinking to the evidence for a Crestor?
Timo Onjukka commented on 20 Years After the Waco Tragedy: What Have Adventists Learned?
2013-05-23 7:38 AM
Indeed, we (the corporate church view) sought (and continue try) to look good in front of men... never mind that God might have an entirely different view of our hand washing. And that innocent children perished, all the while we could claim we...
Preston Foster commented on A Big Question
2013-05-23 12:14 AM
Dear 22oct1844,
Thank you for your studied input.
Christ's role as our High Priest is not disputed here. He is, indeed, praise God!
What Hebrews points out is that this High Priest has, already, entered to Most Holy Place (Hebrews...
Nathan Schilt commented on White Memorial Medical Center Agrees to Pay $14.1 Million to Settle Allegations of Illegal Kickbacks to Doctors
2013-05-22 11:07 PM
Do people ever have opinions these days that are not the subject of high moral dudgeon? Many of those who have commented on this story have absolutely no understanding of Stark Law or its complexities. Most have probably never heard of it, and have no...
Mark Bauer commented on Another Union Conference Takes a Stand for Ordination Without Gender Discrimination
2013-05-22 7:04 PM
The silence is deafening. I did not think this thread was directed at the great gay debate, but since Truth Seeker pointed us to the page above I will only say this: At what age did you decide to be strait? If you are flummoxed...
Dennis Hokama commented on The Mini Great Controversy
2013-05-22 4:11 PM
It is quite remarkable that this conversation can be carried on so long without any reference to Ellen Whites’s “shut door” visions. And I don’t mean the White Estate’s apologetics about them, but the visions themselves....
Bugs-Larry Boshell commented on Blessing of the Hands at Adventist Hospitals in the Chicago Metro Area
2013-05-22 12:44 PM
You mean Adventists have rituals? No, say it isn't so!!!
William Noel commented on What did the Australian Census Really Tell Us About Church Growth?
2013-05-22 8:53 AM
Treading water? No, we're sinking. That happens when you've been treading water long enough to become exhausted. However, I praise God that there is a quiet revolution taking place in the church. Where in many places the...
earl calahan commented on Dr. David Wilbur: Power and Illusion: Religion and Human Need. Part 11
2013-05-22 3:25 AM
Nagel is fearful, in that he is lacking confirmation of his desire that there is no God of creation. Reminds me of a child lying on the floor, kicking & screaming, because he is unhappy with the status quo, reality of being, and uncertainty of...
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