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13 March 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, My unmarried, unattached daughter recently came to my wife and me and announced that she’s going to have a baby. She says she’s had no luck finding a husband she wants to spend her life with, and she’s getting older, and she’s always wanted a child, so she’s […] Source: https://atoday.org/89027-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=89027-2
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Have you heard someone say something that seemed backwards? This week we begin our new small group series “Upside Down” based on the beatitudes in Matthew…Source: https://vimeo.com/807729360
Alyssa Truman joins Pastor Sam Neves to discuss the future of Adventist communication, how the Church works to reach every individual around the world, and how the ultimate goal is for others to know Jesus and accept Him as their personal Savior. The Seventh-day Adventist Church first communicated with the world through print in the 1840s, and they have continued to do so through books and other print media to this day. As times and technologies change, the Adventist Church has sought to use the mediums available to convey the Gospel message. The Church is committed to spreading the message of Jesus' soon return. Whenever a new communication platform is introduced, the Church moves to embrace it. Radio, television, and now, the internet, are some of the channels the church uses to proclaim God’s message of freedom, healing, and hope throughout the world. The Seventh-day Adventist Church has been an established denomination since 1863. It is a global Christian family with over 21 million members who hold the Bible as the ultimate authority. We are believers who promise to help people understand the Bible to find freedom, healing, and hope in Jesus. Want to learn more about the Seventh-day Adventist Church? Visit our website at: https://www.adventist.org/ To ensure that you never miss a new video, click the notification bell! Find us on social media by following the links below:
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The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) office in Dominica handed off keys to a home for a family of five in the village of Laplaine during a special ceremony on January 31, 2023. The Hypol…… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/adra-presents-a-family-with-a-new-home-in-dominica
What should Seventh-day Adventist Christians do in response to difficult times? Do we hunker down in a survival mode? No, in fact, just the opposite is true. Because we know that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ is near, we want to use our assets to tell others the good news of the gospel and what God has prepared for those who love Him. We understand that someday soon everything on this earth will be burned up.
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We understand from the Word of God that He is not sending moving vans to take our stuff to heaven. It will all get burned up in the final conflagration when all traces of sin and evil, except the scars on Christ’s hands, will be forever destroyed.
So, what should we do with our possessions? “It is now that our brethren should be cutting down their possessions instead of increasing them. We are about to move to a better country, even a heavenly. Then let us not be dwellers upon the earth, but be getting things into as compact a compass as possible.” — Ellen G. White, Counsels on Stewardship, p. 59.
Of course, she wrote those words more than a century ago! But still the principle remains: time is always short, because our lives are always short. What are 60 years, or 80 years, or 100 years (if you have good genes and good health practices) in contrast to eternity? Your life can end before you finish reading this week’s lesson, and the next thing you will know is the second coming of Jesus. (Wow, that was fast after all, wasn’t it?)
As Seventh-day Adventist Christians we must always live in the light of eternity. Yes, of course, we need to work hard to provide for ourselves and our families; and if we have been blessed with wealth, nothing is wrong with enjoying it now, provided we don’t become greedy and are generous with it in regard to the needy. Yet we must always remember that whatever we accumulate here is transitory, fleeting, and, if we are not careful, has the potential to be spiritually corrupting.
| If you knew Jesus were coming within ten years, how would you change your life? Or five years? Or three? |
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