Always Beginning Again: A Sermon to Begin the New Year
by Loren Seibold | 31 December 2020 | Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And […]
News Briefs for December 31, 2020
News reports from Los Angeles, California; Haiti; the Philippines; an epic bike ride and Malawi: Hours ago, the Los Angeles Times reported the California National Guard had stationed medical teams at 13 medical facilities in the state as hospitals reach a “breaking point from an unprecedented surge in coronavirus cases.” The paper specifically named Adventist […]
What’s Next for Ben Carson?
From AdventInnovate – 30 December 2020 | Current US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson is no stranger to reinvention. Carson made a name for himself as a pioneering pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center before running for United States President in 2016. In early 2017, Carson was the only Seventh-day […]
Inter-American Division President Thanks Church Members for Their Prayers
From ANN – 30 December 2020 / Editor’s Note: Pastor Elie Henry, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Inter-American Division, shares a statement with church leaders and members across the world, following his recent release from captivity, along with his daughter, on Dec. 28: On behalf of my wife and daughters, I would […]
What Does God Do with Suicides?
by Elliot Pinero | 30 December 2020 | For most of my life, I have not only believed that those who commit suicide will not be saved, but also found myself preaching as much. I felt sorry for those individuals, who according to my beliefs, were eternally lost and could never do a thing about […]
Sharing Scripture for December 27 – January 2
[symple_heading style=”” title=”Crisis of Identity” type=”h1″ font_size=”40″ text_align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”30″ color=”undefined” icon_left=”” icon_right=””] 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 […]
Wrapping up Shattered Dreams
by Melissa Brotton | 28 December 2020 | “Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.” (Ps. 42:11) Sometime during my college graduation weekend, my mother presented me with the gift […]
Elder Henry, Daughter, Released after Four Days’ Captivity
28 December 2020 | Press release from the Inter-American Division, Miami Pastor Elie Henry, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America, along with his adult daughter, Irma, were released unharmed on Dec. 28, 2020, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Pastor Henry and Irma went missing on the evening of Dec. 24, 2020. “I have spoken with […]
Read the latest edition of Adventist Today magazine
28 December 2020 | The latest issue of the Adventist Today paper magazine has arrived in many mailboxes. If you’d like to receive the paper magazine, click here to make any donation to Adventist Today. You’ll be put on the distribution list for the upcoming edition that is mailed out during the middle month of every quarter. If […]
A Happy and Blessed New Year
by Reinder Bruinsma | 28 December 2020 | In my native Dutch language we either wish people a “happy” or a “blessed” new year. Many of my compatriots may not be aware of the origin of this difference: those with a Protestant heritage prefer to use the term “happy,” while people with a Roman Catholic […]