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 […]
Category: Features
Day 3: 2019 General Conference Executive Committee
by Loren Seibold | 15 October 2019 | There are some things that are hard to write about. This day was one of them. Right now I would prefer to go to bed and not tell you what happened at General Conference (GC) executive committee. But you support Adventist Today so you can hear reports […]
Day 2: 2019 General Conference Executive Committee
by Loren Seibold | 14 October 2019 | As I said yesterday, a church business meeting like this one (and indeed, all the church governance meetings I’ve ever attended) isn’t just about decision-making. Yet this one, more than most, is about pageant, as much as about seeking collective wisdom. I hope you’ll forgive me for […]
Day 1: 2019 General Conference Executive Committee
by Loren Seibold | 13 October 2019 | You may wonder when you hear that the theme for this year’s General Conference Executive Committee is “Faithfulness in Christian Lifestyle”: Why does a business meeting have a theme? And why this particular theme? Why, in a day and age when we’re trying to promote a more […]
Sharing Scripture for Oct. 6 – 12
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 […]
Debunking Six Myths about Your Pastor
By Dave Gemmell, 30 September 2019 | Throughout the years I’ve heard several myths about pastors. With October (Pastoral Appreciation Month), I thought I’d do a little pastoral myth busting. Myth 1: Pastors only work one day a week: Most people only see their pastor on Sabbath. What they don’t realize is that pastors are […]
Sharing Scripture for Sept. 29 – Oct. 5
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 […]
Little League More Important than Church?
Last spring I asked a friend at church to teach a children’s Sabbath School class a few weeks from then. She checked her calendar and said, “I can’t. That’s the day Noah starts his Little League Baseball.” When I grew up, Sabbath School and church took priority over everything. But now it’s common for families […]
Sharing Scripture for September 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 […]
My Husband Confessed an Affair—from Decades Ago
20 Sept 2019 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, A couple of months ago I had a serious health scare—I thought I had cancer. (I didn’t, although the signs pointed to that at first.) My husband was broken up by it, and in a moment of panic he confessed to me that he’d had a brief affair […]
Why I Stay in the Church
Reinder Bruinsma | 16 September 2019 | To be honest, I am at times rather frustrated with my church. Sometimes I feel the church is out of tune with the times and with the world in which we live. I get upset by the church’s bureaucratic procedures and by what I perceive as regrettable failures […]
Sharing Scripture for September 15 – 21
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 […]