Frank Dell'Erba was born in Canada to Italian immigrants who were good parents, hard workers, and faithful Christians who brought him to church each week. Prayer and reading the Bible were normal for Frank, but nothing he was brought up with could prepare him for what was coming. Frank shares a little of his journey of how God has been restoring his life with the hope that it might encourage others in their own journeys. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvqhIEfBPq4
FINDING HOPE TOGETHER | The One Who Is Our Rest (4 of 9)
There is a stigma around mental health; therefore, it is important to have conversations about the topic because all of us approach our mental wellness differently. For years, Liz Pule did not pay attention to her emotional wellbeing until she hit the wall and felt very empty. When she turned to God's Word, resting in Jesus, and being in nature Liz found such comfort and healing. She shares how the Sabbath and daily connection with Jesus has been a soothing balm to her mental wellness aches and has pulled her towards peace during a season of burn out and depression. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rxJndpGJKs
FINDING HOPE TOGETHER | The One Who Is Our Source of Peace (5 of 9)
Jayson Levy grew up in a Christian home with very supportive parents, but it wasn’t until his late teens that he found Christ. Prior to that point, he tried everything: parties, drugs, anything to quiet the chaos that filled his life, with his anger and confusion growing. Jayson honestly shares his journey from pain to peace through his personal encounter with God. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enkcmLP3WPU
FINDING HOPE TOGETHER | The One Who Is the God of My Story (6 of 9)
Martin Perez’s story started with his young parents getting together despite their families not supporting the union. They eloped and thought that love was all they needed, but the harsh realities of life came bearing down on them quickly. As Martin was growing up, he often questioned why he was born. He had hopes that at some point his life would turn around, and he would be freed from the darkness of his troubled family. He really hoped that when he hit his teenage years, he would develop super powers, and with these powers he could stop feeling so helpless and do something to fix his life, but those years came and went and… nothing… no powers, just more troubles. Stuck in a dysfunctional family, he began to wrestle with low self-esteem and self-worth, depression and loneliness, and the anger and resentment towards his dad grew. Martin openly shares how Jesus showed up in his life -through the ups and downs – leading step by step to redemption. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9DYXrVESYg
FINDING HOPE TOGETHER | The One Who Defends Us (7 of 9)
Glenn DeSilva was born and raised on the beautiful Island of Bermuda, literally on a dot on the globe in the Atlantic Ocean. Being raised in the church by a God-fearing mother, Glenn attended church school and knew about Jesus all his life but never really connected with Him as his personal Saviour until he faced a legal challenge that created a turning point in his life. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhDcBWhy1z0
FINDING HOPE TOGETHER | The One Who Is Our Life-Giver (8 of 9)
“What Happens 5 Minutes After You Die?” James Anderson shares how experiencing the death of a loved one impacted his life and caused him to ask the big questions. James describes his quest to find the answers that gave him peace and the ability to see beyond death to the final hope. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew5Nx48FG48
FINDING HOPE TOGETHER | The One Who Gives Us a Future (9 of 9)
How would you like to have your dream home offered to you FREE of charge, mortgage paid off, no property taxes, and no maintenance needed! Sounds too good to be true? Like Heaven? Pastor Phillip Lee shares the good news, the bad news, and most important news the Bible presents to us about our eternal home. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyW8gB_D5H4
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The Remnant Church Is on My Couch
by Paul Annala | 30 November 2021 | I’ve been following Pastor Ted Wilson’s official Facebook page, and according to that, he seems to be busy. He’s been touring the Philippines. We see Ted Wilson welcomed by people waving flags. Ted Wilson welcomed by a uniformed Pathfinder troop, saluting him. Ted Wilson met by big colored […] Source: https://atoday.org/the-remnant-church-sits-on-my-couch/
Wednesday: Eaten and Full
One former church leader, who had worked at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists® for 34 years, told a story about how, many years earlier, he and his wife, having landed at an airport, had lost a piece of luggage. “Right there,” he said, “by the luggage conveyer belt and in public, we got on our knees and prayed, asking the Lord for the return of our lost luggage.” He then said that, many years later, the same thing happened: they arrived at the airport, but a piece of luggage didn’t. He told what happened next. “Don’t worry,” he had said to his wife, “insurance will cover it.”
With this story in mind, read Deuteronomy 8:7-18. What warning is the Lord giving to His people here, and what should it mean for us today, as well?
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Look at what their being faithful to the Lord would bring them. Not only would they possess a wonderful and rich land, “a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing” (Deuteronomy 8:9), but they will be exceedingly blessed in that land: flocks and herds and gold and silver and beautiful houses. That is, they will be given all the material comforts that this life affords.
But then, what? They would face the danger that always attends wealth and physical prosperity, that of forgetting that it was only the Lord “who gives you power to get wealth” (Deuteronomy 8:18).
Maybe not at first, but as the years go by and they have all the material comforts that they need, they will forget their past, forget how the Lord had led them through “that great and terrible wilderness” (Deuteronomy 1:19), and, indeed, think that it was their own smartness and talents that enabled them to be so successful.
This is precisely what the Lord was warning them against doing (and unfortunately, especially as one reads the later prophets, this is exactly what happened to them).
Thus, amid this prosperity, Moses tells them that to remember that it was the Lord alone who had done this for them and not to be deceived by the material blessings that He had given them. Centuries later, Jesus Himself warned, in the parable of the sower, about “the deceitfulness of riches” (Mark 4:19).
| No matter how much money and material possessions we have here, we are all flesh and blood awaiting a hole in the ground. What should this tell us about the dangers that come from wealth, in that wealth can make us forget our need of the only One who can deliver us from that hole in the ground? |
Amen!
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