SATIRE: Adventist Disfellowshipped for Jumping Church Potluck Line
MAGALIA, California — A member of the Magalia Adventist Church was disfellowshipped at the recommendation of the local church board after he was found jumping the fellowship potluck line last Sabbath. Frank Inskip had allegedly jumped the line with what a church board statement characterized as “casual disregard for well-established potluck protocol right after a […]
Church: A Reflection on Our Identity
by Skip Bell | 19 September 2024 | It is not easy being the church. Especially if you regard your church as the one true church, the distinctive repository and custodian of truth. In recent weeks I have been reminded of the humanity that accompanies our being the church. Some congregations of Christian believers in […]
News Briefs for September 19, 2024
19 September 2024| News from Tennessee Riverview Community Seventh-day Adventist Church is being rebuilt after burning down three years ago due to a lightning strike to a power line that caused the church to go up in flames. 10-15 churches of numerous denominations donated to fund the new church building and broke ground this year. […]
Quand les gens trouvent Jésus dans une église différente – Première partie: notre côté du mur
par Loren Seibold | 19 septembre 2024 | Il y a quelques années, un de mes amis qui a grandi et été instruit dans l’église adventiste du septième jour, a annoncé à ses parents qu’il allait rejoindre une autre confession religieuse. Il est important de savoir qu’il n’était pas en train de devenir un spiritualiste, […]
The Body Temple: Evil Defined by Good
“The universe [is] shot through with appalling threads—violence, slaughter, sickness, and pain.” [1] by Jack Hoehn | 18 September | It is incontrovertible that we live in a great controversy. Life and health are under constant attack. How can we keep body temples safe for worship? It seems that some have learned how to avoid […]
ATSS: Laurence Turner, “Jonah: The Bias of the Pious”
18 September 2024 | Many people do not consider the book of Jonah worthy of serious attention. It might provide wonderful images for use in children’s Bibles—a huge fish swallowing and then regurgitating a prophet fascinates everybody—but this simply underlines that the book cannot be taken seriously. Those who pass that kind of judgment are […]
Papua New Guinea Sees Record-Breaking Baptisms
18 September 2024 | Papua New Guinea (PNG) saw a record number of baptisms during its PNG for Christ program, which caused the South Pacific Division (SPD) to partner with the Papua New Guinea Union Mission to provide resources and support for the new believers. Resources such as 100,000 World Changer Bibles with reading guides, […]
“No elegí ser hijo de pastor”: La desesperada situación de una familia pastoral en México
La siguiente es una historia real, que recibió el equipo de Adventist Today Latinoamérica por parte de un grupo de pastores. Un relato que se entrelaza entre la lucha familiar y las limitaciones impuestas por la organización adventista, de la cual depende esta familia pastoral. “No elegí serlo, soy hijo de Pastor, pero a diferencia […]
So Why, Exactly, Should I Pay Attention to the Sermon?
by Rich Hannon | 17 September 2024 | I’m getting old, and I’ve heard a lot of sermons in my life. But, quality aside, within the past few years it has occurred to me that they could be categorized based on their structure, not content. Sermons can roughly be divided into two forms: Leading with […]
¿Los fumadores pueden ser adventistas?
Empecé mi campaña antitabaco cuando tenía unos cuatro o cinco años. El propietario de la pequeña tienda de ultramarinos del pueblo más cercano a nuestra granja era un tal Earl Smith, un viejo flacucho de voz grave y rostro adusto. Fumaba constantemente, con un cigarrillo colgando de sus labios finos y arrugados incluso cuando atendía […]