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Source: https://www.adventistreview.org/church-news/story17150-swimming-lessons
Rescheduled!
Jacarandas are flowering but will not frame photos of graduates this year as Avondale moves its ceremony away from December so more students can march. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2021/12/09/rescheduled/
Socialight 35 – Alessia Calderaro – Liberi di essere
Non perderti la trentacinquesima puntata di SociaLight. Sarà con noi Alessia Calderaro che ci parlerà della sua esperienza di fede e di come viverla, ha rivoluzionato la sua vita. Non perdertela. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne9HtNZwydo
Pioneering health professionals
The newest course at Avondale builds on our reputation as one of Australia’s premier providers of lifestyle medicine education. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2021/12/09/pioneering-health-professionals/
Art Teacher at Adventist School Selected to Exhibit Her Work at the Louvre
Kids are my calling
You know those people you feel comfortable with straight away? The down-to-earth and genuine kind? That’s Lindy Jones. She’s also an integral part of a husband–wife ministry with a background in counselling and welfare, a teacher-in-training, and a mother of seven. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2021/12/09/kids-are-my-calling/
Joanne Cortes | Society of Adventist Communicators 2021 Keynote
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Joanne Cortes, pastor of the Beltsville Seventh-day Adventist Church, Washington DC Campus, asks, “How can we have more empathy, compassion, and understanding…Source: https://vimeo.com/654630657
Adventists & Ecumenism: Preliminary Questions
8 December 2021 | In this class I wish to step back a little and look at the big picture before we focus on more specific questions. That is, we will address three or four preliminary points/questions that should be addressed before deciding anything about ecumenism for Adventists. These include: The meaning of salvation in […] Source: https://atoday.org/preliminary-questions-to-ecumenism/
Thursday: Daniel’s Prayer
One of the most famous prayers in all the Old Testament is in Daniel 9. Having learned from reading the prophet Jeremiah that the time of Israel’s “desolations” (Daniel 9:2), seventy years, was soon to be up, Daniel earnestly began praying.
And what a prayer it was — a poignant and tearful supplication in which he confesses his sins and the sins of his people, while at the same time acknowledging God’s justice amid the calamity that had befallen them.
Read Daniel 9:1-19. What themes can you find that are related directly back to the book of Deuteronomy?
Daniel’s prayer is a summary of exactly what the nation had been warned about in Deuteronomy regarding the fruits of not keeping their end of the covenant. Twice Daniel referred back to “the law of Moses” (Daniel 9:11, Daniel 9:13), which certainly included Deuteronomy and, in this case, might have been specifically referring to it.
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As Deuteronomy had said, they were driven from the land (see Deuteronomy 4:27-31 and Deuteronomy 28:1-68) because they didn’t obey, exactly what Moses (Deuteronomy 31:29) had been told would happen.
How tragic, too, that instead of the nations around them saying, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people” (Deuteronomy 4:6), Israel became a “reproach” (Daniel 9:16) to those same nations.
In all of Daniel’s tears and supplications, he never asks the common question that so many ask when disaster strikes: “Why?” He never asks because, thanks to the book of Deuteronomy, he knows exactly why all these things happened. In other words, Deuteronomy gave Daniel (and other exiles) a context in which to understand that the evil that came upon them wasn’t just blind fate, blind chance, but the fruits of their disobedience, exactly what they had been warned about.
But, and perhaps more important, Daniel’s prayer expressed the reality that despite these events, there was hope. God had not abandoned them, no matter how much it might have seemed that way. Deuteronomy provided not only a context for understanding their situation, but it also pointed to the promise of restoration, as well.
| Read Daniel 9:24-27, the prophecy of Jesus and His death on the cross. Why would this prophecy be given to Daniel (and to the rest of us) in the context of Israel’s exile and the promise of return? |
Amen!
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Health and Nutrition | ADRA Insider Podcast
In this episode of the ADRA Insider, Heather Grbic speaks with Michael Kirkby about the work that ADRA is doing to help people have better health and nutrition. Michael talks about the visits that he has made to project sites where ADRA has been teaching people how to grow organic kitchen gardens. He also shares his experience of having just visited ADRA's project in Nunavut. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckYtcgbUqEg
