Closer To Heaven
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31 July 2025 | News from Papua New Guinea Adventist students and staff hosted a week-long evangelistic program held at Kerevat National School of Excellence (KNSoE) in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Themed “The Power of Choice,” the event introduced the other students and staff to the Adventist message. The program resulted in 11 […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-from-papua-new-guinea-australia-japan-and-the-dominican-republic/
Daily Lesson for Friday 1st of August 2025
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“The Passover was to be both commemorative and typical, not only pointing back to the deliverance from Egypt, but forward to the greater deliverance which Christ was to accomplish in freeing His people from the bondage of sin. The sacrificial lamb represents ‘the Lamb of God,’ in whom is our only hope of salvation. Says the apostle, ‘Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.’ 1 Corinthians 5:7. It was not enough that the paschal lamb be slain; its blood must be sprinkled upon the doorposts; so the merits of Christ’s blood must be applied to the soul. We must believe, not only that He died for the world, but that He died for us individually. We must appropriate to ourselves the virtue of the atoning sacrifice.”—Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 277.
To this day, observant Jewish families around the world celebrate Passover, Pesach. They have what they call a “Passover Seder” (“Seder” means “order/arrangement”) during which they recount the Exodus and then enjoy a special meal as a family. Amazing that this has been kept since, literally, the time of the Exodus! Only the seventh-day Sabbath, which observant Jews keep as well, goes back even farther into antiquity.
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(0)Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/25c-05-further-thought-passover/
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland — New projections from the Adventist Statistics, Trends & Reports (ASTR) department suggest a demographic tipping point: if trends persist, every Adventist congregation will soon consist almost entirely of sweet-tempered grandmothers determined to ask single members if they’ve “found a nice Adventist to marry yet.” Analysts tracking falling baptism rates and brisk […] Source: https://atoday.org/satire-by-2040-98-of-adventists-projected-to-be-kindly-grandmas-inquiring-about-your-relationship-status/
William was a devout Catholic priest who lived in Kampala, Uganda. His faith led him to study the Scriptures, but the more he studied, the more discrepancies he discovered between the Bible and his church’s beliefs. Finally, he abandoned his faith and eventually met a young woman from Angola and fell in love. They got married and had three beautiful children. But when William thought he had it all, his wife left him and returned to Angola with his three children. This shocked William, who was left brokenhearted and alone, feeling abandoned and sad. To make matters worse, there was a void in his spiritual life that nothing could fill. Then one day, a young couple knocked on his door. They were looking for a house to rent, and William agreed to rent them a room in his house. What William didn’t know was that this couple was Seventh-day Adventist! Watch this video to see what happened next and be inspired. I love to see souls won for the kingdom of heaven—and I love it when God uses Adventist World Radio to do it! Yours in the Blessed Hope, Duane McKey
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by Reinder Bruinsma | 30 July 2025 | Professor Rik Torfs belongs to that small group of erudite people who have the gift of communicating their insights in accessible, enriching, and often surprising ways. He is a Belgian professor in canonical law. I became acquainted with him in 1997 when I was involved with the […] Source: https://atoday.org/negative-eschatology-embracing-the-mysteries-of-our-afterlife/
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