In this episode of ANN In-Depth, we're joined by Kyle Portbury, the Emmy Award-winning director of "The Hopeful," a film that narrates the journey and challenges of early Adventist members. Kyle shares the unique opportunity the Adventist Church has to share its story through cinema and the collaborative effort behind making "The Hopeful" a reality. From the challenges of post-production to the impact on audiences and the broader community, Kyle provides an insightful look into the world of filmmaking and the potential for cinema evangelism. 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?
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Pathfinder Ministry Is Changing the Face of Hispanic Church in St. Croix
The church service looks like any other at the Sunny Acres Seventh-day Adventist Church in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, as a group of Pathfinders in their uniforms is walking to the podium to welcome…… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/pathfinder-ministry-is-changing-the-face-of-hispanic-church-in-st-croix
Aunty, I’m under pressure in my church employment, because “it’s for God!” Sometimes it feels abusive.
8 April 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I’ve heard Adventist administrators and others remind their overworked staff that they work for God, not the church or school, as the case may be. While technically true, it seems like an excuse to justify unreasonable expectations. Honestly, sometimes it has felt to me like spiritual abuse. Am […] Source: https://atoday.org/aunty-im-under-pressure-in-my-work-for-the-church-because-its-for-god-it-feels-toxic/
Tuesday: Faithful Amid Persecution
Daily Lesson for Tuesday 9th of April 2024
Throughout the early centuries of Christianity, the Christian church grew rapidly, despite imprisonment, torture, and persecution. Faithful believers, totally committed to Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit, proclaimed His Word with power; lives were changed, and tens of thousands were converted.
Read Acts 2:41; Acts 4:4,31; Acts 5:42; and Acts 8:1-8. What do these verses teach us about the challenges the New Testament church faced and also why it grew so rapidly?
The disciples faced threats (Acts 4:17), imprisonment (Acts 5:17-18), persecution (Acts 8:1), and death itself (Acts 7:59, Acts 12:2), yet, in the power of the Holy Spirit, courageously proclaimed the resurrected Christ, and churches multiplied throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria (Acts 9:31).
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The bastions of hell were shaken. The shackles of Satan were broken. Pagan superstition crumbled before the power of the resurrected Christ. The gospel triumphed in the face of overwhelming odds. The disciples no longer cowered in the upper room. Fear danced away like a fading shadow.
Instead, faith filled the disciples’ hearts. One glimpse of their resurrected Lord changed their lives. Jesus gave them a new reason for living. Our Lord had not only given them the Great Commission (Mark 16:15) but the great promise, “ ‘But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth’ ” (Acts 1:8, NKJV).
The gospel penetrated the remotest corners of the earth (Colossians 1:23). Although the last of the disciples, John, died at the end of the first century, others picked up the torch of truth and proclaimed the living Christ. Pliny the Younger, governor of the Roman province of Bithynia on the north coast of modern Turkey, wrote to Emperor Trajan around a.d. 110. Pliny’s statement is significant because it was nearly eighty years after the Crucifixion. Pliny described the official trials he was conducting to find and execute Christians. He stated, “For many persons of all ages, and classes and of both sexes are being put in peril by accusation, and this will go on. The contagion of this superstition [Christianity] has spread not only in the cities, but in the villages and rural districts as well.”—Henry Bettenson, Documents of the Christian Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 4.
Despite the devil’s most vicious attacks, the Christian church grew rapidly.
What can we learn from the early church that could help us, the end-time church?
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God First your Daily Prayer Meeting – April 8, 2024
Matthew 21:22 – "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." Tag someone in need of prayer and kindly share your prayer requests here. https://bit.ly/3GdFXpR Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XPr8-T3PGA
