by Jack Hoehn | March 5, 2020 | The COVID-19 epidemic/pandemic is only one of many viral illnesses such as measles, mumps, chickenpox, influenza, cold sores and shingles (Herpes viruses) and HIV/AIDS. As no specific medication is available for COVID-19, and no vaccine will be ready in the near future, it may be useful to […]
by Jack Hoehn | February 27, 2020 | There is a problem with survival. The older you get, the longer you live, the fewer friends you have left. Because they keep dying off on you. I am a medical doctor and in my youthful practice I worked in constant life and death situations in mission […]
by Jack Hoehn | 1/8/2020 | What are the pillars or core teachings that make Adventism stand or fall as a distinctive denomination? 12-year-old Ellen Harmon heard William Miller preaching the soon return of Jesus Christ in Portland, Maine.[1] Ellen grew up with and then led, by influence, the Seventh-day Adventist movement that came from […]
by Jack Hoehn | December 7, 2019 | In the Beginning Was the Word. I’d love to be one of those nocturnal camel-backed wise men following a wonder-star through dark night after dark night, secure in the knowledge that in my saddle bags I had the stash of golden staters that would both sparkle for […]
by Jack Hoehn | November 12, 2019 | Maine State Highway 114 runs for 36 miles starting near Portland, Maine. Deanne and I drove along it this September. About 10 miles out of Portland you come to Gorham, Maine. Here Highway 114 is called School Street, and then becomes Fort Hill Road passing, at about […]
by Jack Hoehn | originally written December 17, 2013 | My first vision came at age 13. My regular sleep was interrupted with a meaningful dream of the second coming of Christ and the sensation of flying upward through the air and looking about and recognizing friends’ faces. The message and emotion not forgotten in […]
By Jack Hoehn | September 15, 2019 | I am a lifelong member of the Seventh-day Adventist church, an ordained elder, a Sabbath School teacher. I am also a delegate from my church to the September 15, 2019, Constituency Session of the Upper Columbia Conference (UCC) of Seventh-day Adventists. I am asking questions raised by […]
(Third of a three-part series on DNA, God’s Language.) (Part 1 is here.) (Part 2 is here.) by Jack Hoehn | July 7, 2019 He said to me, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true… I am the Α and the Ω [the A and the Z], the beginning and the end […]
(Second of a three-part series on DNA, the Language of God) (Part 1 is here.) by Jack Hoehn | July 7, 2019. He said to me, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true… I am the Α and the Ω [the A and the Z], the beginning and the end [of […]
(First of a three-part series on DNA, the Language of God) by Jack Hoehn | July 7, 2019 He said to me, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true… I am the Α and the Ω [the A and the Z], the beginning and the end [of God’s alphabet].”[1] In the beginning […]
by Jack Hoehn | 4 June 2019 | Last month I spent a week wandering in the desert with a small tribe of Adventists on the Talking Rocks geological tour. Perhaps we were replaying the Festival of Booths or Tents, advised by Jehovah to be annual, after the grown-up children of slaves entered the Land […]
by Jack Hoehn Ever read a good book that started out like this? “My life was going nowhere; my relationships were falling apart. I lost my job, was restless, unhappy, and frequently out of control. But finally I started drinking alcohol and smoking pot, and everything got way so much better…”? — me neither. Adventists […]
