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  God is a Broncos Fan - Charles Eaton
Tim Tebow has been winning football games he has no business winning. He has heart, to be sure, but his talent level is woefully inadequate and glaringly unpolished. Therefore, his recent playoff loss notwithstanding, I have come to an unmistakable conclusion: God was actively helping Tim Tebow win football games....
     
     
  Jesus Hates Me - Natha Brown
...it was his T-shirt of choice for that day, which read, “Jesus hates me.” I simply did not know how to react to such a statement, so contrary and outside my usual way of thinking about God....One suspects that often these pop culture artifacts are more marketing than philosophy, focused far more on whether they will sell than on the statement itself. But the question remains as to what would motivate someone to buy or wear such a label; and why would such a T-shirt sell....
     
     
  Help Me - Stephen Foster
There is a recurring question that I have with regard to theism which no one ever seems to want to address. How does it make sense to believe that the God of the Bible exists at all, if you do not believe that what the Bible says about the God of the Bible is indeed true?...
     
     
  Prospective Presidencies - II - Stephen Foster
With my position — as a historical Seventh-day Adventist — concerning the potential dangers of governmental activism in church-state affairs being well-documented (in this blog space), there is perhaps no need to restate it at this particular point in time. What may need to be restated however is the fact that we have no idea by whom or when eschatological events will be catalyzed; but we remain convinced of why and how....
     


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    I Support Men’s Commissioning - David Hamstra
I don't intend to rehash the arguments pro and con women's ordination here. For me it boils down to one issue: Spiritual gifts come with the authority to use them. If a woman has been equipped by the Holy Spirit for pastoral ministry, the church is poorer for not recognizing this....I have come to the conclusion that in the Seventh-day Adventist Church the term "ordination" has changed into something other than a simple recognition of God's blessing on a pastor's ministry. Ordination is now a word that is used to either attain or maintain power....		  
         
         
    What She Doesn't Know Won't Hurt Her - Don Watson
The phrase has been used by many of us, "Well, what she doesn't know won't hurt her." But it does. Like the feisty old man who didn't want anyone telling him what to do, we think we're getting away with something by pretending to take our blood pressure medicine, and we don't realizing that whenever we violate the laws of our physical well-being it hurts us and those that love us whether anyone finds out about it or not....		  
         
         
    The Evangelism Industrial Complex - Ed Dickerson
...Until we are ready to put as much effort and as many resources into retaining our own children and reaching the ones who have left as we do into all the public evangelism events, we are going to keep losing our young adults. They can see where our last-generation values fail them. For the first forty years or so, this was a young people's movement. For more than the last forty, it has become an aging people's status quo. To change that, we will have to take on the Evangelism/Industrial Complex.		  
         
         
    Scaring or Sharing - Mark Gutman
My favorite time of the week used to be Sabbath at about 5 pm, but not because it was time to eat or because it was almost sundown.  And my most dreaded time of the week was Sabbath at about 1:30 pm. A certain witnessing program was in progress at my school on Sabbath afternoons, and I felt obligated to take part in it. It involved knocking on doors and asking people questions to find out if they understood the correct way to be saved and if they had implemented that correct way....		  
         
         
    Damned or Not - John McLarty
...I think the reason she kept me in conversation about the proper use of the label “Christian” because she really wondered whether heaven had a place for her. In the world in which her deepest religious instincts were formed, the difference between non-Christian and Christian equaled the difference between damned and not damned. In the world of parochial education—Catholic and Adventist—it's easy for kids to become persuaded that unless they can fit their minds into elegant and venerable boxes of orthodoxy, the Kingdom has no place for them....		  
         

In the News:
 
WWU Student Newspaper Publishes Special Issue on Creation-Evolution - On a university campus the topic of origins and how the views of science and faith can be understood coherently is always at hand. At a faith-based institution there are times when it boils over....
 
 
Adventist Leader Warns Politicians about Violence in Kenya Elections - A new election season will open soon in Kenya and the leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the region has publicly warned politicians not to stir up the kind of violence that has occurred during past campaigns. Pastor Blasious Ruguri, president of the East-Central Africa Division of the General Conference with offices in Nairobi, “urged politicians not to be irresponsible in their utterances and actions,”...
 
 
Political Crisis in Papua New Guinea Involves Large Adventist Population - A constitutional crisis in the Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) erupted in December and continues today. The country has an exceptionally high proportion of Seventh-day Adventists and they are involved in key roles on both sides of the government impasse. Adventists may play a key role in its resolution....
 
 

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David Hamstra commented on I Support Men’s Commissioning
2012-02-04 01:02:28

"...aren’t our clergy/pastors types of ‘charismatic leaders’ (they talk about a ‘calling’ for ministry) whilst our elders/deacons are ‘appointed leaders’?" If you're asking my oppinion, the s...

Monte Fleming commented on Sex
2012-02-04 00:03:15

I agree that sex isn't necessarily the same as bowing to Baal.  I think the "cultural phenomenon" idea fits, however.  Sex outside of marriage is clearly wrong (including sex before marriage), and the fact that rampant premarital s...

David Read commented on God is a Broncos Fan
2012-02-03 23:55:38

I'm with Charles on this one.  Anyone who watches alot of football and witnessed what the Broncos did after Tebow took over (when the Broncos were 1 and 4) and led them to 7 wins in the next 8 games, knows that some of those wins cannot be explai...

Ella M commented on Scaring or Sharing
2012-02-03 23:47:13

      I agree with the original editorial--knocking on doors in today's society is not a good idea.  Although I did canvassing for two years, I would not do it again.  Right out of high school I was painfully shy and...

Ella M commented on The Evangelism Industrial Complex
2012-02-03 22:39:36

Rudy,   I have a response to something you said previously, but it duplicated itself.  Check it out above.  Others,  RE:  perfect witnessing??   I would like to address this personal evangelism idea of witnessing by our li...

Ella M commented on Jesus Hates Me
2012-02-03 20:38:29

      This has been my observation as well, even though it has been at a distance.  Most of the sitcoms target young people and they promote a lot of sex (usually under the covers).  I generally watch only one of them ir...

Stephen Foster commented on Prospective Presidencies - II
2012-02-03 19:10:10

Welcome JaNe,   Would you kindly give us an example in this blog of what you refer to as left wing socialism?   Is there anything in your reading and understanding of the Bible that has caused you to believe that any particular temporal poli...

JaNe commented on Emergent Theology and The Omega of Heresies
2012-02-03 15:48:16

Well said

William Noel commented on Help Me
2012-02-03 11:31:04

Kevin, The Biblical counsel that spiritual understanding would be confirmed by the community of believers is predicated on the members of the spiritual community all having a connection with the Holy Spirit as we see described in the New Testament.&nbs...

cb25 commented on What She Doesn't Know Won't Hurt Her
2012-02-02 04:16:21

Hi Don, I have drifted past your blog several times since you put it up. Each time I have read it with interest. You make some good points. I have been hesitating on making any comment because, like with my comments on some other threads, expressing...

 
 
 
 
 
 
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