Closer To Heaven
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by Loren Seibold | 1 April 2025 | The Berrien Village church saga has continued, with the congregation requesting from the Michigan Conference a special constituency meeting. One of their suggested agenda items is voting out conference president Jim Micheff and his team. Church members are understandably hurt by the firing of their pastor. But […] Source: https://atoday.org/adventists-hobnob-with-maga-christian-nationalists/
En una entrevista con Danny Shelton y su esposa, el pastor Wintley Phipps presentó su nuevo modelo de inteligencia artificial, GospelTruth.ai, en el programa de Three Angels Broadcasting Network, 3ABN Today. Phipps creó el modelo preocupado por los sistemas de inteligencia artificial existentes, que tienden a hojear tanto materiales sagrados como seculares, proporcionando a menudo […] Source: https://atoday.org/wintley-phipps-presenta-un-modelo-de-ia-para-elaborar-sermones-y-apoyo-teologico/
Daily Lesson for Wednesday 2nd of April 2025
Seventh-day Adventists owe much to William Miller for their understanding of Bible prophecy. While his understanding of key passages (such as Daniel 8:14) was not perfect, Miller’s methodology was, nonetheless, important, because it paved the way for the birth of our last-day remnant movement.
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In some ways, studying the Bible is not unlike assembling a large jigsaw puzzle. If you gather just two or three pieces together, it is nearly impossible to discern the entire picture. Perhaps in those two or three pieces, you can see a horse, and so you conclude that you are assembling a picture of horses. But a few more pieces reveal a chicken and a cow, and then once you have assembled hundreds of pieces, you can finally see that you have been working on a picture of a landscape, which includes a city, a farm, and a range of mountains in the distance.
One of the central ways in which some Christians err in their study of the Bible is that they treat the Scriptures as a loose collection of sayings or proverbs that they can use to address a specific situation. Some will turn to the simple study guide at the front of a Gideons Bible, where they can find helpful verses on a number of topics, and assume that it represents the sum total of the Bible’s teachings on a given subject.
Unfortunately, they take the same approach to prophecy, lifting an individual text out of its context and comparing it to current events instead of the rest of the Bible. This, in part, has led to the constant stream of modern books on prophecy that have to be updated every few years because they were wrong on what they said was going to happen—and when.
That’s why it’s so important not merely to select some specific texts on any given topic but instead to study carefully everything the Bible says about that topic and to take into consideration the context in which it says it, as well. It is very easy to pull a passage out of context and make it say whatever we want.
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What has been your experience with those who use only certain selected texts to try to make their point about, say, the state of the dead? Or even the Sabbath? What is the best way to respond? |
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The Pathfinder Club Game is a roll-and-write game involving friendly competition and coordination. On the game sheet, participants will try to accomplish many of the things involved in the first year of Pathfinders such as pitching a tent, hiking, swimming, learning the Pathfinder Pledge, and tending a fire – as well as occasionally giving neighbor […] Source: https://atoday.org/adventinnovate-the-pathfinder-club-game-2/
«La última sesión de la AG fue revolucionaria en el ámbito de los medios digitales», dijo Sam Neves, director asociado de comunicación de la Asociación General (AG) de la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día. «La sesión de este año será revolucionaria». Según la publicación de la Asociación General en Adventist News Network (ANN), el departamento […] Source: https://atoday.org/nueva-aplicacion-permitira-traducir-a-siete-idiomas-las-sesiones-de-la-asociacion-general-2025/
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