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Do Not Underestimate an Adventist Woman
Bet You Didn't Know This:By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31871975Never underestimate an Adventist woman on a mission. That's why we love them so much. They are a...
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The Third World Next Door
There's a wonderful new program that trains students for missions by visiting refugee/immigrant communities in Houston, Texas where half the population speaks a language other than English. It's a...
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Upsetting the Sanhedrin
It's been a while since I've written anything on this weblog. There's a reason for that. I haven't trusted myself to comment on the sorts of controversies rattling around in the upper rooms of church...
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Is God Giving the Churches a Nudge?
In the midst of the CoVid-19 pandemic, SDA churches all over the world have stopped having services on Sabbath. A lot of our churches have given their members weblinks and reading materials and the...
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Water - One Reason I Gave Up on Atheism
Water in all 3 of its miraculous forms - liquid, solid and gasAs a young man, as young men will do, I toyed with the idea of atheism. With my limited youthful logic I thought the idea of evolution and...
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Is it Wrong for a Christian to Be Involved in Politics
A preacher friend and relative, counseled all of us to not involve ourselves in politics in his Sabbath morning homily today. It was at that point that I realized he'd done stopped preaching and done...
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Towards a Lost Sheep Ministry
The reward of seeking lost sheep.When I was working in Tyler, Texas during my nonprofit days, I saw a survey we did for a HUD grant of the local "demographic." In it, they included an item that...
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Answer to a Critic of Ellen White
I recommended a book by SDA historian George R. Knight called "Ellen White's Afterlife" in which he thoroughly discusses the issues the anti-Adventist crowd has presented here on social media. Let me...
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AF Doesn't Archive These - How We Got the Interstate Highway System
© Amazing Fact Devotional - May 29, 2021AN AMAZING FACT: After World War I, leaders in Washington became concerned about the state of the nation’s roads. The automobile was still a relatively new...
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We Have Almost Reached the Deciding Moment
We've just about reached every corner of the Earth what with radio, TV, air, train, bus and auto travel, the Internet, the printed word and other media. My church has established missions on the...
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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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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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