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There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.
In the News:
| First Blind Person to Serve as Senate President in Jamaica is an Adventist Senator Floyd Morris made history in Jamaica’s Parliament last week when he became the first visually impaired person to be appointed chairman of the national legislature's upper house. He is an Adventist Church member and an advocate for the disabled, according to the Jamaica Observer newspaper. The 44 year-old lawmaker is well-known in the Caribbean island nation.... |
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| Survey Explores Attitudes Toward Homosexuality Among Adventists Attitudes among Americans regarding various issues related to homosexuality are changing. What do Seventh-day Adventists in the pews really think about this topic? Do most Adventists side with the official church statement [1] that condemns “homosexual practices and relationships” as sinful, while affirming the “dignity of every human being,” including gays and lesbians? How many have found their understanding of homosexuality changing as new information is made known?... |
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| Adventist Community Services Responds Immediately to Oklahoma Tornado On Monday (May 20) when an F4 tornado plowed through the town of Moore, Oklahoma, devastating about 30 square miles of suburban neighborhoods and schools, Adventist Community Services (ACS) immediately mobilized volunteers to help. ACS is the domestic community action agency sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the United States. It is officially recognized as one of the major disaster response agencies under written agreements with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the American Red Cross.... |
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| 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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Can Less Faith Bring More Belief? - Chris Barrett If faith is the evidence and substance of both what is hoped for and what is not seen, at least two suggestions arise: First, that faith itself is simply what happens within the mind of the person involved, effectively, a decision. Secondly, that the resulting state of mind, or mindset, is ultimately the sole evidence for the reality of the things that are hoped for, but not seen.... |
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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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Recent Comments:
Stephen Ferguson commented on Million-Dollar Salaries in Adventist Healthcare
2013-05-25 5:37 AM
Nate: 'But I still think that we need to be guided by the principles of market value in setting compensation for Church employees. After all, when you buy or sell anything, whether you are dealing with an Adventist businessman or a non-Adventist...
notrocketscience commented on Survey Explores Attitudes Toward Homosexuality Among Adventists
2013-05-25 3:05 AM
The article and comments make the Pope's recent statements encouraging atheists with the hope of going to heaven, as well as others who refuse to believe in Christ, so long as their good works outweigh their bad,...
cb25 commented on Can Less Faith Bring More Belief?
2013-05-25 1:09 AM
Darrel, yes, it would probably be fine, if not better to replace "determines" with "discovers". That is really more the sense in which I am using it. I guess the discussion of evidence as a means to doing so indicates this.
As...
Philip Law commented on Dr. David Wilbur: Power and Illusion: Religion and Human Need: Part 12
2013-05-24 9:59 PM
“Modern, science, medicine, psychiatry, physics and astronomy have continuously removed him from being the answers to deficiencies in knowledge. He has become the ultimate transient as information has squeezed him on to ever new, more...
James Ayars commented on Adventist General Conference Organized 150 Years Ago this Week
2013-05-24 6:22 PM
It is significant to me, not by way of dissent or discord, that Ellen G. White is never listed in the founding documents and pioneer recollections as a "Founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Denomination." Given that this is constantly...
Nathan Schilt commented on 20 Years After the Waco Tragedy: What Have Adventists Learned?
2013-05-24 6:12 PM
Dennis, I have made no "absolute" assertions. You made the initial assertion that the G.C. had expertise to offer the F.B.I., and I questioned that by stating as a negative what you failed to prove. Rather than saying "The Church...
T. Joe commented on Blessing of the Hands at Adventist Hospitals in the Chicago Metro Area
2013-05-24 12:57 PM
Of course this is a great idea. Now that Medicare partly reinburses hospitals on the basis of satisfaction in surveys taken from discharged patients. The federal government has decided that patient attitudes about the medical and...
Ranald mcleish commented on A Big Question
2013-05-24 1:33 AM
Hi Preston and 22Oct1844,
This discussion commenced with the following statement.
"However, it seems (or at least one could interpret from these Scriptures) that the cleansing of the Sanctuary had already occurred:"...
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...
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