This is day three of the 2023 North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Year-end Meeting. Please join us in watching our Sabbath School program followed by our worship service with speaker G. Alexander Bryant, NAD president, on Oct. 28, 2023. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XhkUAHMQMY
Fleeing the War in Ukraine
At 5:00 that morning Nataliia Prylepa and her husband were awakened by the sounds of explosions. It was the 24th of February 2022, the day the war in Ukraine started. They looked out their 11th floor apartment window in Kyiv and witnessed the explosions. Feeling lost in their own home, Nataliia and her husband grabbed suitcases and packed them frantically. Nataliia Prylepa had to flee her home on the day the war began. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6QUjdQD8dA
¿Qué nos pasó en la iglesia?
Hoy en día, cuando voy a una tienda, dejo de respirar y mi corazón empieza a latir con fuerza cuando un hombre se acerca por detrás. ¿Me doy la vuelta? me pregunto. ¿Cómo puedo achicarme para que no se fije en mí? No siempre me he sentido así. Esta sensación de hipervigilancia comenzó después de […] Source: https://atoday.org/que-nos-paso-en-la-iglesia/
Шесть причин, по которым я больше не доверяю Генеральной Конференции
Гаральд Гиесебрехт | 10 июля 2015 | В течение последних пяти лет я был и наблюдателем, и частью процесса, приведшего к голосованию о рукоположении женщин этим летом. Этот процесс к сожалению, подорвал мое доверие Генеральной Конференции. Вот почему. 1. Лидеры нашей Генеральной Конференции виновны в том, что вызывают разделение. Вопрос рукоположения женщин сам по себе […] Source: https://atoday.org/%d1%88%d0%b5%d1%81%d1%82%d1%8c-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b8%d1%87%d0%b8%d0%bd-%d0%bf%d0%be-%d0%ba%d0%be%d1%82%d0%be%d1%80%d1%8b%d0%bc-%d1%8f-%d0%b1%d0%be%d0%bb%d1%8c%d1%88%d0%b5-%d0%bd%d0%b5-%d0%b4%d0%be%d0%b2/
Sunday: Our Excuses: Fear
Daily Lesson for Sunday 29th of October 2023
Read Nahum 1:1; Nahum 3:1-4; and 2 Kings 17:5-6; 2 Kings 19:32-37. What do these verses reveal about Nineveh and the relationship between Assyria and Israel? How might this relationship have impacted Jonah’s decision to go to Tarshish instead?
One of the reasons Jonah may have been unwilling to go to Nineveh was fear. The Assyrians were a formidable foe, and Nineveh served as the capital of the kingdom.
“Among the cities of the ancient world in the days of divided Israel one of the greatest was Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian realm. . . . In the time of its temporal prosperity Nineveh was a center of crime and wickedness. Inspiration has characterized it as ‘the bloody city, . . . full of lies and robbery.’ In figurative language the prophet Nahum compared the Ninevites to a cruel, ravenous lion. ‘Upon whom,’ he inquired, ‘hath not thy wickedness passed continually?’ Nahum 3:1,19.”—Ellen G. White, Prophets and Kings, p. 265.
Nineveh was a magnificent city. Historians tell us that Sennacherib greatly expanded the city, including building the huge southwestern palace that alone measured 1,650 feet by 794 feet. (503 by 242 meters) and contained at least 80 rooms. He also built 18 canals to bring water to the city from as far away as 40 miles (65 kilometers). Its size alone would have been intimidating.
But the Assyrians were also ruthless. In his account of the conquest of Babylon, Sennacherib boasted that he filled the streets with the corpses of its inhabitants, young and old, and relief carvings found during excavations depict scenes of soldiers impaling victims. These were not people you wanted to cross; they were not averse to using violence, and gratuitously cruelly, too, against those they didn’t like. Indeed, at the thought of walking among the masses of people in Nineveh, Jonah must have quaked with fear.
In spite of all of this, we often read Jonah’s story with disapproval for letting fear get in the way of carrying out God’s instructions. What we fail to realize is that we can do the same thing (i.e., allow ourselves to be controlled by our fears rather than by God).
Think back to a time when you felt strongly that God was directing you to do something that you, out of fear, really didn’t want to do. What lessons have you learned from that experience?
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SdS – Basta parlare, cominciamo a fare qualcosa – Lezione 5
Le scuse per evitare la missione.
Approfondimento della lezione della Scuola del Sabato numero 5 – IV trimestre 2023 con Mariarosa Cavalieri, Sofia Artigas e Saverio Scuccimarri. RISORSE COLLEGATE:
📖 𝗜𝗹 𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲:
https://uicca.org/Il-Nocciolo-4-Trimestre-2023 📩 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗼:
https://uicca.org/4-trimestre-2023-lezione-5 ✍ 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗲:
https://uicca.org/4-trimestre-2023-lezione-5 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewhftptSRws
SdS – Intro – Basta parlare, cominciamo a fare qualcosa – Lezione 5
Le scuse per evitare la missione.
Introduzione della lezione della Scuola del Sabato n. 5 – IV trimestre 2023. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0UeK6SxKfU
God First Your Daily Prayer Meeting – October 28, 2023
Matthew 21:22 – "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." Tag someone in need of prayer and kindly share your prayer requests here. https://bit.ly/3GdFXpR Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrI770W74Uk
EDITORIAL: October 22, 1844 Redux: I Still Love Our People
Last Sunday morning when my phone reminded me it was October 22, I felt moved to say something about it. The result, completed late afternoon of the same day, was this widely-shared essay. I was astonished at how many of you resonated with my feeling that the church we grew up in used fear and guilt […] Source: https://atoday.org/editorial-october-22-1844-redux-i-still-love-our-people/
Inspiring Spiritual Revival Sweeps Northern Davao; Over 3,000 Baptized
A tremendous spiritual awakening occurred in northern Davao, Philippines, from October 6–21, 2023, in an atmosphere abounding with faith and dedication. This awe-inspiring event series, titled “It Is …… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/inspiring-spiritual-revival-sweeps-northern-davao-over-3-000-baptized
