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The Devil's Labelmaker
I struggled with the subject for this week's blog. This week Annual Council was busily debating whether or not to make Adventist church officers sign a loyalty oath promising to obey the 790 page...
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Youth Ministry: Backyard Ball Field Marker
Homemade line marker.Acts 17:26 says - From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their...
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Pathfinders: How to Effectively Praise
“Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be discouraged.” Colossians 3:21The modern world embraces self-esteem as the end-all/be-all of child-rearing goals. Convinced that poor self-esteem...
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Shut-Ins: The Lost Tribe of Adventists
When we do surveys asking what religion people are, we find that there are usually a lot more people who say they are Adventist than there are who come to church each Sabbath. Mostly we assume that's...
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Reaching the Forgotten
I wrote last week about a new project God seems to be pushing me into. I thought this week I'd post the rough development plan I've started developing this week. I like this project because it allows...
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Shoot Your Own Side First!
When Christians start feeding each other to the lions, we're in trouble.If you want to read some discouraging stuff, check out the "comments" section on virtually any Adventist sermon posted on...
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A Response to THE VIOLENCE OF A HEARTLESS THEOLOGY
I am either an exceptionally honest person who has the ability to see both sides of an issue or I'm without principles. Depends on who you talk to. Those who would divide my church into evil heartless...
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Wolves Among the Flock
Men are either wolves or sheepdogs. We are not by nature sheep. We may follow a shepherd but we are wired up to confront danger and stand between our flock, our family and our community and that which...
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There Is No Switzerland in the War Between Good and Evil
'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.' Exod 20: 7. Seventh-day Adventists are intensely aware that there is a...
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When the World Cries, "WHY?" How Does the Church Answer
In the wake of events like the mass shooting in Florida last week, everyone always asks, "Why?" This is especially so when there have been children killed and wounded. What can the church say in the...
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A Threefold Deception
The Devil's Divide and Conquer Strategy for Taking Down the SDA ChurchEvery issue of the Adventist Review of late seems to have an article about church unity lately. Either that or they are advertising...
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Lyin' For the Lord - Does Politics "Trump" Religion
HOAX WARNING!I got a post with this copy of a supposed official email the other day. Not sure who sent it, but several friends passed it along asking me to pray because apparently, the Pope had got...
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Debating the Sabbath - Doug and Steve Go At It Politely!
On March 30, Amazing Facts hosted a debate about the Sabbath between Pastor Doug Batchelor and Pastor Steve Gregg, a radio pastor there in California. Adventists used to do this kind of thing a lot...
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Are Adventists Racists?
My Daughter (top left) with some of her Adventist Youth GroupOnce in a while some well-meaning college student (usually white but not always), raises the charge that the SDA church is racist. They're...
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Agape - Transformative Love
There is a Youtube channel called "CS Lewis Doodle". It offers essays by Christian apologist, C.S. Lewis with accompanying illustrative drawings. It's a fascinating way of presenting Lewis' many...
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Violating the Third Commandment
Once in a while someone pops up to take a shot at the kind of Christian witnesses who proclaim the message that we are "...saved by faith in Christ, not by works lest any should boast." Why this...
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Has the NAD Joined the Democrat Party?
The NAD just posted a message to all Adventists to basically send up prayers based on Democratic National Convention talking points. The message asserts - (1) that innocent children are being cruelly...
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Who is Trying to Create a "Religious" State
It's coming and we're looking the wrong way!An SDA pastor friend of mine who is clearly a card-carrying Democrat justifies his defense of DNC talking points by raising the old Adventist fear of the...
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Jesus and The New Golden Rule
Many, who would minimize the impact of Christianity upon the world, claim that the so-called "Golden Rule", which requires one to treat others as one would wish for them to treat oneself, had its...
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You're Wrong - Marxist Socialism Is Not a Viable Model for Church Governance.
A recent piece in Adventist Todayby Stephen Ferguson | 16 December 2018 posits that Marxism's governance model has a lot to offer the church. Ferguson admits that "...the world is fundamentally corrupt...
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