by Melody Tan | 21 June 2019 | “By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap,” the 2007 article from The Washington Post began. The author, Gene Weingarten, was writing about a busker’s experience on a Friday morning at a train station. […]
[symple_heading style=”” title=”Turning Hearts in the End Time” 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 […]
by Ronald Lawson, PhD | 21 June 2019 | This paper was originally published in 2003 in the Kinship Connection. Two prominent Adventists have recently urged a reversal in our Church’s long held position of opposing the enactment of laws attempting to impose morality. They have urged that it take a public position against the […]
by Alvin Masarira | June 19, 2019 | The period leading up to the end of 2020 will be marked by some events that have a significant impact on the church in the Southern Africa Union Conference. Towards the end of this year, two local conferences (Trans-Orange Conference and the Northern Conference of South Africa) […]
[symple_heading style=”” title=”What Have They Seen in Your House?” 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 […]
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 11 June 2019 | A summary paper written in 2002 Although Adventism experienced an astonishing rate of upward mobility in the New Guinea Highlands, especially the Southern Highlands, during this period, much of the rest of (PNG) Adventism, especially in the villages, remained poor in income, lifestyle, and level of […]
[symple_heading style=”” title=”Families of Faith” 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 […]
by S. M. Chen | 7 June 2019 | “Learn from the mistakes of others. There’s not enough time to make them all yourself.” Eleanor Roosevelt, longest-serving First Lady of the United States (1933-1945) One of the most powerful and moving parables of Holy Writ is that of the prodigal son. It illustrates, on a […]
By Tysan, 3 June 2019 | Last week a major Adventist evangelism initiative in the eastern Africa nation of Tanzania came to an end with more than 8,000 baptisms. The campaign featured Dr. Baraka Muganda, a Tanzanian who has served as vice president for campus ministry at Washington Adventist University in the United States and […]
[symple_heading style=”” title=”Little Times of Trouble” 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 […]
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 31 May 2019 | Read this article and others on Dr. Lawson’s website here. The Seventh-day Adventist Church, like many conservative denominations, has officially rejected homosexuality and its members who practice homosexuality. The Seventh-day Adventist Church Manual states that “…homosexual practices and lesbian practices are among the obvious perversions of […]
By Tysan, 31 May 2019 | The Hon. James Marape has been elected prime minister by the parliament of the Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The vote was 101 to 8 to install the former finance minister, a Member of Parliament from Tari-Pori in New Hela province who is an Adventist. The […]
