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by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 25 March 2025 | At the prayer service following the 2025 inauguration, Episcopalian bishop Mariann Edgar Budde asked the newly elected United States president to show mercy during his new term of office. With cameras trained both on her and on the president and his squirming family in the pew, […] Source: https://atoday.org/is-it-always-necessary-to-be-nice/
Daily Lesson for Wednesday 26th of March 2025
The relationship between love and law cannot be overstated. Indeed, according to Scripture, to love is to fulfill the law.
In Romans 13:8-10, Paul teaches that “he who loves another has fulfilled the law” (Romans 13:8, NKJV). After listing many of the last six of the Ten Commandments, Paul declares that these are “all summed up in this saying, namely, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’ ” (Romans 13:9, NKJV). Indeed, Paul teaches explicitly, “Love is the fulfillment of the law” (Romans 13:10, NKJV). Again, in Galatians 5:14, Paul explains, “All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’ ” (Galatians 5:14, NKJV). But what kind of love is that which fulfills the law? What does such love look like?
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Jesus identifies the “weightier matters of the law” as “justice and mercy and faith.” And in relation to one law in particular—the Sabbath—we can see in Scripture that the Sabbath itself is integrally connected with deliverance and justice.
In Deuteronomy 5:1-33, the Sabbath commandment is grounded in relation to God’s deliverance of Israel from slavery. That is, the Sabbath is not only a memorial of creation but also a memorial of deliverance from slavery and oppression. And in the context about turning from one’s own pleasure to call the Sabbath a delight by taking delight in the Lord (Isaiah 58:13-14), the emphasis is on works of love and justice for others—doing good, feeding the hungry, housing the homeless (see Isaiah 58:3-10).
Given all of these teachings (and many others), those who wish to fulfill the law through love should be concerned not only about sins of commission but also about sins of omission. Love as the fulfillment of the law involves not merely keeping the law in the sense of refraining from committing sins but also consists of actively doing good—doing the works of love that faithfully advance justice and mercy. Being faithful to God is more than just not violating the letter of the law.
(0)Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/25a-13-love-is-the-fulfillment-of-the-law-2/
With egg prices soaring Adventist nutritionists across the denomination are basking in a glow of self-righteousness brighter than a Loma Linda sunrise. These plant-based pioneers are dusting off their “Meatless Monday” playbooks and delivering a resounding “We told you so” to anyone still clinging to their omelet dreams. “Eggs are a luxury now? Shocking,” deadpanned […] Source: https://atoday.org/satire-adventist-nutritionists-solve-egg-shortage-by-not-caring-about-eggs/
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/
24 March 2025 | The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is partnering with the Marienhöhe School Center in Darmstadt, Germany, to support low-income students affected by the war in Ukraine through the Zhyve Slovo (Living Word) School. Run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the school has become a haven for the families devastated by […] Source: https://atoday.org/adra-germany-and-marienhohe-school-center-support-students-and-teachers-in-new-project/
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