Full episode here – https://youtu.be/Mn28W_0hnbQ Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSb7bLKXt7s
1: The Shepherd’s Crucible – HopeSS Video Discussion
You can view an in-depth discussion of The Shepherd’s Crucible; in the Hope Sabbath School class led by Pastor Derek Morris. Click on the image to view: With thanks to Hope Channel – Television that will change your life.
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Lawsuit Filed Against Southern California Conference, Glendale Adventist Academy for Alleged Sexual Assaults of Student
Lawsuit alleges Glendale Adventist Academy and Southern California Conference knew about sexual abuse that was happening on campus but intentionally ignored and/or concealed it. In the past 9 years, two teachers at Glendale Academy have been convicted for child sexual abuse, with some of the abuse taking place on campus. Lawsuit also alleges that in […] Source: https://atoday.org/lawsuit-filed-against-southern-california-conference-glendale-adventist-academy-for-alleged-sexual-assaults-of-student/
Las pastoras premiadas por la División Norteamericana
Las pastoras premiadas por la División Norteamericana La Asociación Ministerial de la División Norteamericana (NAD) tiene como objetivo duplicar el número de pastoras en la División. El número de pastores que son mujeres en la NAD ha aumentado de 101 a casi 200. La Iglesia Adventista sigue luchando con la cuestión de la ordenación de […] Source: https://atoday.org/las-pastoras-premiadas-por-la-division-norteamericana/
Being Ambassadors for Christ [What Does It Mean]? – Pastor Ted Wilson
In this video, Pastor Ted talks about being ambassadors for Christ. In 2 Corinthians 5, Apostle Paul talks about what we are as followers of Jesus. And as we look forward to His second coming, God is calling us to represent Him through His power and by connecting with Him daily. Verse 17 of that chapter says, “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (NKJV). Indeed, when you become an ambassador for Christ, you are a new creature. Continuing in verse 18, Apostle Paul says, “Now all things are of God, Who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation” (NKJV). In verse 19, he goes on, “that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation” (NKJV). We need ambassadors of reconciliation who would unite people in the mission Christ has entrusted us of proclaiming His righteousness, sanctuary message, health message, three angels’ messages, and second coming. The time is now. God is calling us to be part of His mission. “Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God” (2 Corinthians 5:20, NKJV). “For He made Him Who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (verse 21, NKJV). Also, “in a special sense, Seventh-day Adventists have been set in the world as watchmen and lightbearers” (Testimonies for the Church, volume 9, page 19). We have been “chosen by God as a peculiar people separate from the world. By the great cleaver of truth, He has cut them out from the quarry of the world and brought them into connection with Himself. He has made them His representatives and has called them to be ambassadors for Him in the last work of salvation” (Testimonies for the Church, volume 7, page 138). May God bless us as we go forward as ambassadors for Christ! Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdPOIKjkMfg
News Briefs for June 30, 2022
News Briefs from ADRA, Brazil, Croatia, North American Division. Founder of Breath of Life Ministries Passes Away Walter Eugene Arties III, a Seventh-day Adventist singer and pastor known as the founder of Breath of Life Television Ministries, died from an acute neurological condition on June 26, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. He was born […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-june-30-2022/
Psalm 23, verses 1-4 – The Lord is my shepherd; I have all that I need …
ATSS – “Don’t Be Like Jesus”: Understanding Christian Nationalism
30 June 2022 | A few weeks ago, my Twitter feed was glutted with a certain video clip of a US congresswoman speaking in a Christian church. She was mocking gun-control advocates who asked how many AR-15s Jesus had. Her answer: “Not enough to keep his government from killing him.” The message, to her pro-gun […] Source: https://atoday.org/atss-dont-be-like-jesus-understanding-christian-nationalism/
Inside Story: South American Division ~ Part 1, Possessed at 11
Part 1: Possessed at 11
By Andrew McChesney
Sweat poured down 11-year-old Eduardo’s face as he raced his skateboard back and forth on the street outside his house on a hot summer morning.
“Eduardo Ferreira dos Santos!” Mother called. “Come in and take a shower before lunch.”
Perspiring and panting, Eduardo headed straight for the kitchen, forgetting the shower and thinking only about lunch. Eduardo ignored a stranger seated in the living room, waiting for her nails to be painted. Mother ran her own home business, a beauty salon offering manicures and haircuts.
Before Eduardo reached the kitchen, he was stopped by his 12-year-old sister. “Sit down and catch your breath,” she said.
Eduardo obediently plopped down onto a hallway chair. Immediately, an unholy shriek escaped his lips. His young body began to convulse. Mother rushed to the boy. A low, distorted voice spoke from Eduardo’s mouth, telling Mother to hand over her son or watch him die.
Mother began to cry. The stranger in the living room came up behind Mother. “Don’t worry,” she said. “Your son has been chosen to be part of our group. I am a Candomblé leader.”
Mother had heard about Candomblé, a religion that arrived in Brazil on slave ships from Africa in the early 19th century. Candomblé teaches that people can be possessed by the spirits of gods. The spirits, however, aren’t gods but fallen angels. Eduardo had been possessed by one of them, an evil spirit from a legion that surrounded the stranger.
After some time, the evil spirit left, and Eduardo returned to normal. He didn’t remember the incident, but Mother couldn’t forget, and she took him to the Candomblé temple. The temple priests welcomed Eduardo like a king.
“What an honor,” one said. “You have been handpicked,” said another.
Only 11, Eduardo was introduced to spiritism and devil worship. Over the next seven years, he spent much time at the temple, learning to be a priest. Evil spirits spoke to him and through him. The most important lesson, they said, was never to leave a job undone. If he started a task, he had to finish it.
As an adult, Eduardo became high priest of a temple. He earned money from people who wanted him to curse their enemies. But he couldn’t curse everyone. The evil spirits forbade him from placing curses on Seventh-day Adventists and other Protestant Christians. They are protected, the spirits said, adding that any attempt to curse them would cause Eduardo to lose his powers. The spirits also banned Eduardo from communicating with Adventists and other Protestants.
Eduardo found a common-law wife, Sidilene Silva de Oliveira, and they had a son, Eduardo Junior. Life was peaceful until the day Junior said he wanted to join the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Your Thirteenth Sabbath Offering will help open eight churches in the South American Division, including four in Brazil, where Eduardo Ferreira dos Santos and his family live.
Produced by the General Conference Office of Adventist Mission. Find more mission stories at adventistmission[dot]org
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Friday: Further Thought ~ The Shepherd’s Crucible
Further Thought:
Read Ellen G. White, “Missionaries in the Home,” p. 143, in Testimonies for the Church, vol. 4; “The Divine Shepherd,” Pages 476-484, in The Desire of Ages.
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“Those who are finally victorious will have seasons of terrible perplexity and trial in their religious life; but they must not cast away their confidence, for this is a part of their discipline in the school of Christ, and it is essential in order that all dross may be purged away. The servant of God must endure with fortitude the attacks of the enemy, his grievous taunts, and must overcome the obstacles which Satan will place in his way …
But if you keep looking up, not down at your difficulties, you will not faint in the way, you will soon see Jesus reaching His hand to help you, and you will only have to give Him your hand in simple confidence, and let Him lead you. As you become trustful, you will become hopeful … .
You will find help in Christ to form a strong, symmetrical, beautiful character. Satan cannot make of none effect the light shining forth from such a character … . God has given us His best gift, even His only-begotten Son, to uplift, ennoble, and fit us, by putting on us His own perfection of character, for a home in His kingdom.” — Ellen G. White, Messages to Young People, Pages 63, 64.
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