Heading Out: Andrews University to Lose Another Long-time Leader, Dwight Nelson
Andrews University President Andrea Luxton and Pioneer Memorial Church (Andrews University’s campus church) lead pastor Dwight Nelson will be leaving their positions in June 2023. When Nelson leaves, he will have pastored at PMC for 40 years. Nelson said the time had come to turn the congregation over to “a younger leader.” 17 August 2022 […] Source: https://atoday.org/heading-out-andrews-university-to-lose-another-long-time-leader-dwight-nelson/
Thursday: Still Faithful When God Cannot Be Seen
To think that no one cares about what is happening to us is very unpleasant. But to think that God does not know or care about us can be most distressing.
To the Judeans exiled in Babylon, God did not seem to care much about their situation. They were still exiled, still feeling abandoned by God because of their sin. But Isaiah speaks words of comfort to them.
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Isaiah 40:1-31 is a beautiful passage in which Isaiah speaks so tenderly to the people about their God: “He tends his flock like a shepherd: he gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young” (Isaiah 40:11, NIV). But after so long, the exiles were thinking, Where are You, O Lord? We can’t see any evidence that You are still there — or care!
Read Isaiah 40:27-31. In what ways does Isaiah describe God? How is this description of God meant to answer their belief that “my way is hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God” (Isaiah 40:27, NIV)?
Another group of people who might have considered that their way was hidden from God is found in the book of Esther. In this book, God is not mentioned even once. However, the whole story is an unfolding drama of God’s intervention to save His people from an irrevocable law to have them destroyed. Not only does this story describe events of the past — it symbolizes a time in the future when God’s people will again be persecuted and a law again introduced for their destruction (Revelation 13:15). Can you imagine how easy it would be to conclude that if such terrible circumstances were existing, God must surely have deserted His people? But we are not to fear. The same God who saved His chosen ones in the story of Esther will save them again in the final crisis.
| We have read how Isaiah described God to the exiles. How would you describe God to people who felt that God had disappeared and had abandoned them? How would you teach them to see through the eyes of faith and not be dependent on what they see around them with their human eyes? |
Amen!
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Should Adventists Get Involved In Politics? #ANNInDepth #cuts
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8.5 Still Faithful When God Cannot Be Seen – SEEING THE INVISIBLE | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series IN THE CRUCIBLE WITH CHRIST with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
8.SEEING THE INVISIBLE
Can the invisible be seen?
Memory Text: Hebrews 11:27 – By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.
8.5 Still Faithful When God Cannot Be Seen
When we are in a worrying mood, how can we get out of this?
My God bless you today and always.
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