With the Strength to Carry On: ‘Heroes’ Bible Trivia Game Exceeds 100K Downloads
Heroes Bible Trivia game barely makes its year-end goal of 100,000 downloads. Heroes used SEO software to determine the most searched Bible-related questions on the internet, and put them together in Bible studies. In Brazil, players can use an AI to help them with their Bible studies. 14 January 2022 | In the closing hours […]
My pastor is preaching someone else’s sermon, Aunty!
17 January 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, A couple of weeks ago I was listening to my pastor preaching, and it began to dawn on me that the sermon was almost identical to one I had just listened to on YouTube by a well-known evangelist. It was a good sermon, but he preached it like […]
Death Wish
by Tyler Kraft | 14 January 2022 | Can I let you in on a secret? Pastors get angry at times. Well, maybe not all pastors. Perhaps there are some who are thoroughly spiritually enlightened. But I confess that I get angry on occasion. So do some of my pastor friends. That’s probably not too […]
New ADRA Center in Mauritania Made with 34,000 Plastic Bottles
Bottles filled with sand used instead of bricks or cinder blocks. Project took $117,000 to build, which was provided by ADRA International and ADRA Belgium. Center will house medical equipment for primary health care, equipment for a multimedia center, a library and rooms for language learning, sewing and embroidery. Classes in computer skills and languages […]
Is Mary the New Eve and Mediatrix? The Case for a Protestant Mariology
by Stephen Ferguson | 13 January 2022 | Is Christmas more about Mary than Jesus? This Christmas, I had an interesting discussion with a Roman Catholic friend about the role of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. It occurred to me that as Christmas is the time of year when secular people seem open to discussing […]
News Briefs for January 13, 2022
News reports from Andrews University, Brazil, Ethiopia, the United States and Zambia. Making Peace This weekend, Adventist Peace Fellowship (APF) will hold its second annual online/virtual event, “Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Unholy Trinity: Liberating the Church from Violence,” with the “Unholy Trinity” being racism, militarism and materialism. The event takes place Saturday, Jan. […]
Signs for All Times, Part 1: How Timely Are the Signs?
12 January 2022 | Are the “signs of the times” signs of all times? The biblical perspective on “the time of the end” is that we are in the time of the end since Jesus left this earth at his ascension. During these last 20 centuries “signs” have told believers that history is moving in […]
Sentenced to Death for Alleged Blasphemy, Adventist Man in Pakistan Freed After Nearly 10 Years in Prison
Sajjad Mashi Gill falsely accused of blasphemy in 2011. Gill spent nearly 10 years in prison before a court acquitted him due to insufficient evidence. Pakistan ranked fifth on Christian support organization Open Doors 2021 World Watch list of the 50 countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian. 12 January 2022 | […]
North Jamaica Conference Still Venerating Disgraced Ex-Pastor Burnett Robinson, Giving Him a Platform
NJC President Karl Archer calls Burnett Robinson an inspiration and “a man mightily, mightily, mightily used by God in the advancement of His cause.” During an NJC interview, Robinson blames some women in his church for posting the video clip of him advocating for marital rape. Robinson said Greater New York Conference administrators “panicked and […]
Confessions of a Feminist Mother
by Hannele Ottschofski | 11 January 2022 | I attended a seminar at church once where the pastor was speaking about parenting. He quoted something that reminded me of what I had learned as a young girl: The king upon his throne has no higher work than has the mother. The mother is queen of […]