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by Floyd Pönitz | 30 June 2023 | As PRIDE month—a time to celebrate equal rights for LGBTQ individuals—comes to a close, I want to celebrate our accomplishments as humans over the past 54 years since the June 29, 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City. As a 10 year old Adventist who already knew […] Source: https://atoday.org/the-president-of-sda-kinship-celebrating-pride-month/
How do we grow in grace if grace is unmerited mercy/forgiveness? (2 Peter 3:18) Join us as we discuss Lesson 1, Paul and the Ephesians.
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by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 30 June 2023 | Yesterday, attorneys and legal council affiliated with the religious liberty work of the Seventh-day Adventist church had a major victory. In Groff v. Dejoy, the United States Supreme Court upheld postal worker Gerald Groff’s claim of discrimination when he was required to work on his day […] Source: https://atoday.org/are-adventists-taking-liberty-with-our-liberties/
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Source: https://fulfilleddesire.net/adventist-news-network-june-30-2023/
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Read for This Week’s Study: Ephesians 1:3-14; Ephesians 2:6; Ephesians 3:10; Colossians 1:13-14; Deuteronomy 9:29.
Twenty-five years after becoming the first person to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong wrote a thank you note to the creative team who designed the spacesuit, the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), in which he took those historic steps. Calling it “the most photographed spacecraft in history” and teasing that it was successful at hiding “its ugly occupant” from view, Armstrong thanked “the EMU Gang” at the Johnson Space Center for the “tough, reliable, and almost cuddly” suit that preserved his life, sending them “a quarter century’s worth of thanks and congratulations.”
Paul begins his letter to the Ephesians with a majestic thank you note, praising God for the blessings He has poured out, blessings as essential to the lives of believers as a spacesuit is for someone who walks on the moon. Paul argues that God has been at work on these essential blessings since “before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4) and praises God for working through the ages on behalf of believers.
Paul’s opening here makes Ephesians especially valuable in modeling how to worship God and to praise God for the many blessings He has provided.
Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, July 8.
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