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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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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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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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Confusion is His Game
Recently, we've all been bombarded by lies. If it isn't the news media, it's our breathless brothers and sisters with the latest conspiracy theory. If it's not the Illuminati, it's the Bilderberg...
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The Art of Christian Storytelling
The Master StorytellerIt is no accident that Jesus so often taught by telling stories. Parables are a powerful tool in witnessing to others. I'm pretty much a shut-in right now, so I watch a lot of...
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Fallen Warriors: Cosmos Garza
Cosmos Garza Just 12 days ago, I lost my friend, Carlos "Cosmos" Garza to CoVid-19. We went to school together at Valley Grande Academy my senior year (1972). Cosmos was a unique individual. He tried...
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Last Generation Theology Debunked
My pastor, Bob Stephan, posted this article by Walla Walla Biblical Studies emeritus professor Alden Thompson. It answers the premise of M.L. Andreasson's Last Generation Theology and the often...
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Forbearance and Unity
Ted Wilson Wrestles With the Unity Backlash from the Women's Ordination VoteIn the wake of the kerfuffle over the 2015 San Antonio General Conference and subsequent measures to "promote unity" by the...
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What About the 60 Million?
I keep getting crosswise of some of my brethren with some of the things I believe about God. My walk with him leads me to believe even more strongly in His mercy. For instance, I believe God will give...
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