ATSS: Christmas Eve Communion Service
22 December 2022 | This is our annual ATSS communion service. Our service will be shorter than usual. Please prepare your chosen bread and symbolic beverage before the service. We will begin with a devotional presented by sisters Taneshia Kerr and Cherri-Ann Farquharson, “Faith as an Experience.” Explains Cherri-Ann, Faith and fear cannot coexist. Some […]
“Open Your Eyes to See the Light”: A Prescription for a Happy Life
by Joshua Hester | 21 December 2022 | “My life has never been sadder, yet I’ve never been happier.” These words were spoken during an 80th birthday party of a woman of my acquaintance. She’d lived a long life of pain and hard work—a life I’d have thought had been overfull and difficult. Somehow, though, […]
Train Crashes into Truck with Concrete Beam near Southern Adventist University
20 December 2022 | COLLEGEDALE, TENNESSEE – Three locomotives and ten train cars were derailed today at Apison Pike and University Drive near McKee Foods and Southern Adventist University. The Norfolk Southern train crashed into a flat bed vehicle that was carrying a 134-foot-long concrete bridge beam. The beam was ripped into numerous sections. According […]
Gang Member Seeking Spiritual Healing Shot Outside Auckland Church
19 December 2022 | AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – Mongrel Mob member Daniel Eliu, 46, was shot outside of Papatoetoe SDA Community Church on Saturday, December 17th, in what police are calling a targeted attack. Eliu had been attending a gathering at the Adventist church called True Stories, a program run by the Grace Foundation, which […]
My father ruined Thanksgiving dinner. I’m afraid he’ll ruin Christmas, too.
19 December 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Our Thanksgiving dinner was a disaster. We expected a happy gathering around the table with everyone feeling gratitude, but my father hijacked it by lashing out at the table with political topics and dumb conspiracy theories about vaccinations and the 2020 election. Several of us tried to change […]
ATSS: Tom de Bruin, “Extra-canonical Books and the Bible”
13 December 2022 | Think about this for a moment: Satan is hardly mentioned in the Old Testament—just three times—and is present almost everywhere in the New Testament. Where does that emphasis on Satan come from? The Old Testament is silent about an afterlife: the dead know nothing, feel nothing, experience nothing. The New Testament […]
Remembering Bert B. Beach
17 December 2022 | Bert Beverly Beach, PhD, former director of the General Conference Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (PARL), passed to his rest on December 14, 2022. I worked at Bert’s side in PARL for fifteen years and witnessed first-hand his enormous contribution to our church and beyond. He championed religious freedom […]
¿Los ángeles tienen alas?
¿Los ángeles tienen alas? ¡Qué pregunta! Claro que tienen alas, todo el mundo lo sabe. Es como preguntar si los pájaros tienen alas, excepto los pingüinos, claro, que también tienen aletas. ¿Y por qué tienen alas? Pues para volar. ¿Por qué todas estas preguntas tan absurdas? Sigan conversando conmigo, que vamos a un punto importante. […]
Retired GC Public Affairs & Religious Liberty Director, Bert B. Beach, Passes at 94
16 December 2022 | Bert B. Beach passed to his rest in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, on December 14. He was 94. He will be remembered as a statesman on behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. For many years he served as the director of the Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department of the […]
Do Angels Have Wings?
by Jack Hoehn | 16 December 2022 | [This is the first of two related articles on use of symbols and metaphors in the Bible. The next one is called IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND MOTHERLY SPIRIT. ] Do angels have wings? What a question. Of course they have wings; everyone […]