News reports from Sweden, Walla Walla University, Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy, Fiji and Southern Adventist University: The Swedish Union of Churches Conference recently hosted an “End it Now” conference aimed at protecting children and adults who have experienced domestic abuse. According to TED News, over 160 people from 27 countries participated in the […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-june-10-2021/
Women’s Ministries Emphasis Day
Ted Wilson: Hello, friends! Today I’m delighted that my dear wife, Nancy, is joining us once again, and in fact, she will be bringing us the special message this week. This Sabbath, June 12, has been ……
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Women’s Ministries [Women Can Reach the World in Powerful Ways – Pastor Wilson & Nancy Wilson]
How can we reach the world? In this video, Pastor Ted Wilson is joined by his wife, Nancy, to bring a special message about Women’s Ministries Emphasis Day.
This Sabbath, June 12, has been designated as Women's Ministries Emphasis Day. The theme for Women's Ministries is "I Will Go Reach My World," and what a wonderful goal this is for everyone to Go, in the power of the Lord, and reach their world for Him!
God has given each of us a special calling in reaching our world for Him. Let’s look at how a young girl was able, through a home, to influence one of the most powerful families of her time. We read about it in 2 Kings chapter 5, beginning in verses 1-5.
Here is a young girl, ripped away from her family and forced to serve in the very home of the one responsible for her capture! Involuntarily thrust into this unjust situation, she could have been bitter, resentful, and angry. But she wasn't. From an early age she had been taught a higher calling–one that looks beyond oneself to the welfare of others.
This young woman genuinely cared about the well-being of a powerful man who could have rightly been considered her enemy. She cared enough to speak with Naaman's wife, who conveyed the message to her husband.
This took courage. She could have reasoned that because of her lowly position she was helpless, that no one would listen to or believe her. Nevertheless, despite the risk of ridicule and rejection, she spoke up, and her captors believed her.
Why did they believe her? It was in part, no doubt, to what they had observed—her kindness, courtesy, and thoughtfulness. We are told in Prophets and Kings: "The conduct of the captive maid, the way that she bore herself in that heathen home, is a strong witness to the power of early home training. There is no higher trust than that committed to fathers and mothers in the care and training of their children. Parents have to do with the very foundations of habit and character. By their example and teaching the future of their children is largely decided. . . . The parents of that Hebrew maid, as they taught her of God, did not know the destiny that would be hers. But they were faithful to their trust; and in the home of the captain of the Syrian host, their child bore witness to the God whom she had learned to honor"(Prophets and Kings, p. 245).
As we consider our calling, let us never forget those nearest to us, and the powerful influence God has placed within our hands. Whether we have children of our own, or are "mothers in Israel," God has placed us in the powerful position of teaching, nurturing, and guiding the lives of all humanity!
God has indeed placed us in a powerful position of influence–a position that only we can fulfill. While there are many ways we can serve the Lord as we "Go to reach our world," let us always remember our special calling to reach those nearest and dearest through the powerful influence of the home. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viXx2QEP3Wo
Hurt People Hurt People
Have you ever noticed how wounded people tend to wound other people? Perhaps you have attempted to help someone who was hurting, only to find the very one you were trying to help lashed out at you. Or maybe you have hurt someone who was trying to help you, and you were surprised by your own actions, which caused you to resolve: “Next time I’ll stop and think if it’s because I’ve been hurt, myself.” Jesus was hurt most by those He came to save, and He demonstrated how to overcome this cycle of hurt. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXgbd3-ehps
Video Giornale Avventista – 12 giugno 2021
Il 19 giugno è il sabato del rifugiato. Il direttore di ADRA Italia ha inviato un messaggio. Corso online, consegna degli attestati in presenza. Due modalità diverse ma tanto entusiasmo per il primo corso base LIS in Piemonte, organizzato dal Ministero Avventista in favore dei Sordi. Si è concluso il progetto Dis-play realizzato nella città di Fano e finanziato dai fondi 8xmille della Chiesa avventista. Queste notizie e altro ancora… con il Video Giornale Avventista Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS0SfeWQwU0
11.NEW COVENANT SANCTUARY – THE PROMISE-GOD´S EVERLASTING COVENANT | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series THE PROMISE: GOD´S EVERLASTING COVENANT with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
11.NEW COVENANT SANCTUARY
The sanctuary in heaven is the center of the universe. There is the heavenly government.
Memory Text:
Hebrews 9:15 – Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.
Content:
11.1 Relationships
11.2 Sin, Sacrifice, And Acceptance
11.3 The Substitution
11.4 The New Covenant-High Priest
11.5 Heavenly Ministry
11.6 Summary
My God bless you today and always.
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11.6 Summary – NEW COVENANT SANCTUARY | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series THE PROMISE: GOD´S EVERLASTING COVENANT with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |
11.NEW COVENANT SANCTUARY |
The sanctuary in heaven is the center of the universe. There is the heavenly government.
Memory Text:
Hebrews 9:15 – Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.
11.6 Summary
The earthly sanctuary ministry is a parable for redemption.
My God bless you today and always.
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Inside Story: Colombia ~ Boy Revives Dying Church
Boy Revives Dying Church
By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission
A Seventh-day Adventist church elder asked Alejandro to preach his first evangelistic meetings at the age of 8.
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“We want to plant seeds, not to harvest,” the elder told Alejandro’s mother.
The church was dying on Tierra Bomba, an island off Colombia’s coast in the Caribbean Sea. Its head elder had resigned and left the church on the last day of evangelistic meetings that he was leading. Church members were discouraged, and many had stopped worshiping on Sabbath.
Alejandro, who had preached since he was 4, was scared to speak at the first evening meeting. But Mother gave him a big hug, and they prayed together.
People packed the yard of a church member’s house to hear the boy speak.
Hoping to disrupt the weeklong meetings, the former head elder organized his own meetings in his home across the street from Alejandro’s site. He invited current and former church members to attend his daily meetings.
People walking to his house saw the boy speaking as they passed by and stopped. “Who was the child preacher?” they wondered. Many stayed to listen.
The former elder was upset to see people going to Alejandro’s meeting, and he marched over to demand that they come to his house.
“Come on!” he told people, grabbing them by the arm. “Let’s go!”
Some people went with him but, when he wasn’t paying attention, snuck back to listen to Alejandro preach.
This went on for several days. Then church members invited the former elder to the evangelistic meetings and he came.
As part of the meetings, Alejandro visited homes of people who had responded to his appeals for baptism. During the first round of visitations, three people confirmed their desire for baptism. During a second round, an unmarried couple asked for baptism. Alejandro’s mother helped them complete the paperwork so they could be married. A total of seven people were baptized at the end of the weeklong meetings.
Alejandro left Tierra Bomba happy. The church members also were happy. The church was strong and growing.
“Jesus triumphed,” Alejandro said.
Alejandro, a 10-year-old child preacher in Cartagena, Colombia, has led 18 people, including his parents and older brother, to baptism since he was 4. Read more in this quarter’s Children’s Mission, downloadable at bit.ly/childrensmission.
This quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Offering will help open a “Better Life” center to train missionaries at Colombia Adventist University in Alejandro’s homeland, Colombia.
Produced by the General Conference Office of Adventist Mission.
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Friday: Further Thought ~ New Covenant Sanctuary
Further Thought:
“The highest angel in heaven had not the power to pay the ransom for one lost soul. Cherubim and seraphim have only the glory with which they are endowed by the Creator as His creatures, and the reconciliation of man to God could be accomplished only through a mediator who was equal with God, possessed of attributes that would dignify, and declare him worthy to treat with the infinite God in man’s behalf, and also represent God to a fallen world.
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Man’s substitute and surety must have man’s nature, a connection with the human family whom he was to represent, and, as God’s ambassador, he must partake of the divine nature, have a connection with the Infinite, in order to manifest God to the world, and be a mediator between God and man.” — Ellen G. White, Selected Messages, book 1, p. 257.
“Jesus continues: As you confess Me before men, so I will confess you before God and the holy angels. You are to be My witnesses upon earth, channels through which My grace can flow for the healing of the world. So I will be your representative in heaven. The Father beholds not your faulty character, but He sees you as clothed in My perfection. I am the medium through which Heaven’s blessings shall come to you. And everyone who confesses Me by sharing My sacrifice for the lost shall be confessed as a sharer in the glory and joy of the redeemed.” — Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 357.
Discussion Questions:
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Summary:
The old covenant-sacrificial system was replaced by the new; instead of animals being sacrificed by sinful priests in an earthly sanctuary, we now have Jesus, our perfect Sacrifice. He represents us before the Father in the sanctuary in heaven, which forms the basis of the new covenant and its promises.
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Adventist Heritage Restored and Preserved for Future Generations
Tours of Ellen White’s former home, Sunnyside, will resume this month after they were temporarily halted due to the coronavirus pandemic. A student group from Avondale Primary School will be the first……
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