by Debbonnaire Kovacs I was walking with my little Pomeranian along my creek a few days ago. Well–I was walking, she was dashing and splashing. I was surprised at how low the water level still is after all the rain we've had lately, and reflected that the drought had been so long and so hot […]
by Debbonnaire Kovacs I find great blessing in keeping and celebrating God’s ancient Feasts and Fasts as a child of God who believes that Messiah has come and has fulfilled those types as Prophet, Priest, King, and Sacrifice. For the Ten Days of Awe between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, (which I believe are well […]
by Debbonnaire Kovacs Psalm 26, Today’s New International Version with added commentary 1Vindicate me, Lord, for I have led a blameless life; I have trusted in the Lord and have not faltered. Vindicate me through your grace alone, Lord, for I have not been blamless, and I have faltered. . . but I have trusted you! […]
by AT News Team Reports in newspapers in Uganda “took the liberty to extend my statements to suggest what I did not say or imply,” said Pastor Blasius Ruguri, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in East-Central Africa, in a news release from the official Adventist News Network (ANN) on Friday (Dec. 21). Since 2009 […]
by AT News Team “More and more people describe themselves as ‘unaffiliated and unattached’ in terms of religion,” reflects Gregory Nelson, a life coach who once was senior pastor of the Collegeview Seventh-day Adventist Church on the campus of Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. “Former Adventists I am meeting feel this way too.” His […]
by AT News Team Despite the public attention given to apocalyptic themes this week, a survey of sermon topics on a random sample of Seventh-day Adventist Church web sites shows that few pastors plan to speak about the end of the world this Sabbath (December 22, 2012). When the Sabbath begins on Friday night, December […]
by AT News Team U.S. News & World Report ranked Andrews University (AU) number 11 on its list of “Overperforming Colleges and Universities in the Nation.” This concept measures the degree to which an institution’s overall position in the rankings exceeds or falls short of its undergraduate academic reputation rank. The magazines “Best Colleges of 2013” include […]
by AT News Team Friday as word spread about the tragic gunning down of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Adventists began to respond. In the early afternoon Pastor Michael Fortune, senior pastor of the First Seventh-day Adventist Church of Toledo, Ohio, decided to set aside the sermon he had planned for the next […]
by AT News Team New research soon to be published shows a significant correlation with a vegan diet and lower rates of cancer. Also, lacto-ovo vegetarian diets “seem to confer protection from cancers of the gastrointestinal tract,” says an article by a research team at Loma Linda University (LLU) to be published in the journal […]
by AT News Team “I am starting to lose patience in this matter,” Pastor Reidar Kvinge, president of the Norwegian Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, stated in an interview about the study of ordination being coordinated by the General Conference (GC). He thinks that women clergy are important for the denomination’s development in […]
by AT News Team The division between the conservative and moderate wings of Adventist religion scholars was evident as they convened for several days of annual meetings in Milwaukee and Chicago just prior to Thanksgiving. But there was ongoing conversation and more interchange than in the years immediately following the 1989 departure of the conservative […]
by AT News Team Pastor Leo Schreven, an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister and president of All Power Seminars, is reported to have died on Sabbath, December 1. This has been announced in an Email by Pastor Stephen Carlile, senior pastor of the South Tulsa (Oklahoma) Adventist Fellowship, and on Schreven’s Facebook page. Schreven was an evangelist for the denomination […]