AT1 — August 27, 2021
We want to make you aware that there will soon be new places where you can access AT1. Watch for additional announcements here. It’s all an attempt to give greater access to more viewers as we highlight the amazing transformations to be found in Christ. — Paul Richardson, AT1 Director Fear is an understandable response […]
Why Are Adventists Defying the Church’s Vaccination Statement?
By Edison Garcia-Creitoff | 26 August 2021 | When in March 2020 a pandemic hit forcing a lockdown in most of the world, Puerto Rico, a United States territory, wasn’t spared. In December 2020, the Inter-American Division passed along a statement from the General Conference Ministries of Health, the General Conference Biblical Research Institute, and […]
News Briefs for August 26, 2021
News reports from Loma Linda University Health, the Jewish-Adventist Friendship Center, Southern Adventist University, Haiti Adventist Hospital and Centerville, Ohio’s Spring Valley Academy: From a Loma Linda University Health press release: Loma Linda University Health has been awarded on Newsweek’s list of America’s Best Physical Rehab Centers 2021. This prestigious award is presented by Newsweek […]
New Amazing Facts Headquarters Opening Delayed as Doug Batchelor Battles COVID-19
26 August 2021 | Doug Batchelor has emailed supporters announcing the Amazing Facts W.O.R.D. (World Outreach, Revival, and Discipleship) Center public opening will not be taking place as planned the weekend of September 4. The center will serve as the new headquarters for Granite Bay, California-based Amazing Facts International, the television ministry led by Batchelor. […]
Reinder Bruinsma: Adventists and Catholics—What Are the Issues?
25 August 2021 | The following reading was given us by the author. It is reprinted from Spectrum, 1999, summer, pp. 45-52: “Adventists and Catholics: Prophetic Preview or Prejudice?” You can read the entire essay by clicking here. Excerpt: Adventists did not invent anti-Catholicism. Even before the Reformation drastically changed England’s ecclesiastical landscape, there were […]
Fundamental Beliefs vs. the Gospel
by Admiral Ncube | 24 August 2021 | Having been expelled from their former churches and rejected by other adventist groups, early Seventh-day Adventist church leaders were understandably hostile towards creeds. The Bible alone, they said, is our rule of faith and practice. Their comments in those early meetings show that they feared that those […]
Sharing Scripture — August 22 – 28
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 […]
Daniel Weber to Teach Photography and Film at Andrews University
Weber had served as NAD communication director since 2014. 24 August 2021 | An Andrews University Press Release by Jeff Boyd, University Communication, Media Relations Manager: BERRIEN SPRINGS, Mich.— Daniel Weber, who has served as the North American Division (NAD) communication director since 2014, is joining the Andrews University communication program. He will teach photography, […]
Aunty, can evil spirits have a flesh-and-blood body?
23 August 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I have been wondering whether evil spirits have a body. Satan appeared in person to Jesus. But other demons “possessed” people, and once Jesus sent them into pigs. It seems this may have implications for our view of the soul, not to mention people’s belief in ghosts and […]
The Peculiarity Plague
By Thandazani Mhlanga | 20 August 2021 Christianity—Protestantism, in particular—is built on a foundation of theological and moral absolutes. These absolutes are at the heart of why we have so many denominations; we seem to have made a tacit agreement that we cannot peacefully coexist unless we have the same absolutes in common. This agreement, […]