News Briefs for September 23, 2021
News reports from Malden, Washington; Russia; Southern Adventist University and Washington Adventist University: After the nearby community of Malden, Washington, burned down last year, Pathfinders from Spangle, Washington, took a proactive approach to helping with rebuilding. Thurston Talk reports the Patfinders started brainstorming ways to help with one of their leaders, Scott Rivas, a senior […]
Are Our Grandchildren Damned?
15 September 2021 | Read this poem, and the following essay, in preparation for our class. Are We and Our Grandchildren Damned? A Biblical Basis for Setting Our Hearts at Rest Just a year or two into my first ministerial assignment, I conducted a funeral service for the eighteen-year-old son of one of my new […]
Is Prayer Sufficient to Overcome Sexual Addictions?
by Arthur Sibanda | 22 September 2021 | This year’s global Women’s Ministries Week of Emphasis used the theme Bringing Peace Home: Addressing youth violence at the roots. Women’s Ministries is a department I initially viewed with suspicion through my patriarchal lenses. Yet the Women’s Ministries department has continued to demonstrate excellence in giving voice […]
Andrews University Students and Staff Member Injured in Deadly Car Accident
22 September 2021 – The following is a September 21 Andrews University Facebook update: An Andrews University employee and two students were injured in a car accident near our Berrien Springs campus last evening. Their vehicle was struck by a vehicle that lost control in the rain and crossed the center line. Two of the […]
Sharing Scripture for September 19 – 25, 2021
This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS lesson and includes a brief story from current news you can use to introduce the discussion and then a series of discussion […]
The Art of Losing
by S.M. Chen | 21 September 2021 | “The art of losing isn’t hard to master.” —Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), American poet: “One Art.” It is noon. Not High Noon, the 1952 film in which actor Gary Cooper, a lone sheriff in a cowardly town, faces the prospect of fighting a band of outlaws by himself […]
Adventist Today CEO Paul Richardson to Leave Organization
21 September 2021 | Paul Richardson will be leaving his position as Adventist Today’s Executive Director/CEO on September 30. In his eight years with the foundation, the first three on the board, the next four as Chief Operating Officer and this year as Executive Director/CEO, Paul’s executive leadership has seen the foundation’s annual support from […]
Aunty, why isn’t the Old Testament God like Jesus?
20 September 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, After reading through the New Testament a number of times, I came to see God as a loving Father who stood by me in all kinds of situations. Then several years ago I started to read the Old Testament from the beginning. I encountered stories that were troublesome […]
Hope Channel New Zealand Talks Sexual Health
20 September 2021 | Hope Channel New Zealand’s show Go Healthy For Good is going where most Adventist programming fears to tread. The show’s presenter, Dr. Nerida McKibben, summed up what was different about the new season of the show by saying it handled sexual health. “Listen, I am a doctor who specializes in women’s […]
More than Prayers for Layla
by Kris Coffin Stevenson | 17 September 2021 | I pass her every morning as I drive to work. She sits in the shade on the bike path next to a six-lane road. Her shopping cart is piled high with Grinch-like bundles, and she’s wrapped herself in layers of gray clothing, a turban around her […]