Atti 3:19 – Ravvedetevi dunque e convertitevi, perché i vostri peccati siano cancellati Meditazione giornaliera Apri la porta del tuo cuore, autori vari, presentazione di Fulvia Ruocco Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypeI3penU5A
Whom Do We Blame for All of This Bad Stuff?
by Richard W. Coffen | 8 July 2022 | One Sabbath, my pastor decided to dabble in apologetics. “Why doesn’t God intervene to override bad things?” he asked. First, he proposed that God chooses not to interfere with our use of free will, which he has given us. We can opt to worship on Saturdays […] Source: https://atoday.org/who-do-we-blame-for-all-of-this-bad-stuff/
AWR360° Madagascar – Mama Cisit’s Long Walk (8)
Full episode here – https://youtu.be/Mn28W_0hnbQ Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKtzNLriX8A
New Adventist Hymnal in Portuguese is Set to Launch on July 8; and other world news
This week in ANN First in the news, July 8 is the launching of the Portuguese Adventist Hymnal. It was rearranged and redesigned to give greater prominence to the doctrinal identity of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. With the more simple and easy to understand language, it will reach a larger group of members, especially children and young people. In Baja California, Mexico, the Adventist church celebrates hundreds of baptisms after a comprehensive evangelism effort in North Mexico. Thousands gathered to celebrate the end of the evangelism effort, which began earlier this year and resulted in 700 new believers joining the church. AdventHealth organization based in Orlando, Florida, continues to give support and medicines for the Ukrainian people. The Federation of Adventist Entrepreneurs of Brazil supports the five brothers who use their time and talent to transform the lives of children through music. This life-changing project continues to reach many lives as these internationally renowned musicians use their time and talents to make a difference. The ultimate goal is to create an orchestra that will play songs for the glory of God. Riverside Farm Institute and International Caring Hands provide free dental care to thousands of African people everywhere. They share Jesus' love with others through this ministry every year. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWjf1Iyjefo
Sabbath: The Birdcage
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Sabbath Afternoon
Read for This Week’s Study: Exodus 14:1-31, Exodus 15:22-27, Exodus 17:1-7, Proverbs 3:1-35, Luke 4:1-13, 1 Peter 1:6-9.
Memory Text: “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials” (1 Peter 1:6, NKJV).
In the full light of day, and in hearing of the music of other voices, the caged bird will not sing the song that his master seeks to teach him. He learns a snatch of this, a trill of that, but never a separate and entire melody. But the master covers the cage, and places it where the bird will listen to the one song he is to sing. In the dark, he tries and tries again to sing that song until it is learned, and he breaks forth in perfect melody. Then the bird is brought forth, and ever after he can sing that song in the light. Thus God deals with His children. He has a song to teach us, and when we have learned it amid the shadows of affliction we can sing it ever afterward.” — Ellen G. White, The Ministry of Healing, p. 472.
Notice that the one who carries the bird into the darkness is the master himself.
It is easy to understand that Satan causes pain, but would God Himself actively take a part in guiding us into crucibles where we experience confusion or hurt?
The Week at a Glance: What examples can you think of in the Bible in which God Himself leads people into experiences that He knows will include suffering? What do you think were the new songs He wanted them to sing?
Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, July 16.
Amen!
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