por Sarah Kay Jones | 13 de agosto, 2022 | En los últimos meses, he visto y oído innumerables comentarios sobre el derecho al aborto, de ambos lados. Pero casi nadie habla de la libertad religiosa en relación con este tema. Me forme en el sistema escolar adventista, que entonces se oponía firmemente a la […] Source: https://atoday.org/jugando-con-nuestra-libertad/
Sunday: Our Father’s Extravagance
“If God really loved me, He would certainly do _______ ____________ for me!” I wonder how many times that thought has flickered through our minds. We look at our circumstances and then begin to wonder whether God really loves us, because if He really did, things would be different.
There are two rationales that often lead us to doubt God’s goodness. First, when we have a burning desire in our hearts and minds for something that we believe is good, the idea that God might want something different for us may seem ridiculous.
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Second, we may doubt God’s goodness because our experience clashes with what we believe. If something looks good or feels good or sounds good or tastes good, then it must be good. And so we get angry with God when we can’t have it.
This is where faith comes into play. Faith comes into action precisely at those times we are tempted to doubt God and His goodness.
Romans 8:28-39 is a powerful passage that describes the goodness of God toward us. What can you find in the verses that helps to guard our minds against doubting God’s goodness?
In Romans 8:32, there is an important piece of logic that is extremely helpful in guarding us from becoming overwhelmed by our circumstances. “If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us?” (Message). How could we possibly think that God would send Jesus to die for us and then turn mean and stingy?
This means that the truth of God’s generosity to us, seen in the death of Christ, must have a stronger impact in our thinking than all of the doubts that the crucible may generate inside us.
| How is it possible for a truth (God’s goodness) to have a more powerful effect on you than your doubts? Spend some time meditating on the truth that God has given Jesus to die in your place, and that this incredible generosity continues in a thousand different ways for you today. What does this do for your faith? |
Amen!
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by Christopher C. Thompson | 13 August 2022 | I spent the first part of this week at a conference with Adventist pastors who are committed to community engagement and social justice work. It was an invigorating time to be surrounded by like-minded leaders who are not satisfied with broken models and a semblance of […] Source: https://atoday.org/the-post-covid-world-wants-community-engagement-and-social-justice-not-more-meetings/
Youth That Serve: Adventists Represent Philippines at ASEAN Interfaith Event
2 Adventist young adults, Angeilyn P. Antivo and Rowell B. Velonza, represented the Philippines, a country where Catholicism is the dominant religion, at the ASEAN Youth Interfaith Camp (AYIC) 2022. Antivo and Velonza gave a presentation on SADFREE (Smoking, Alcohol and Drugs Free), a movement that aims to save young people from the harmful effects […] Source: https://atoday.org/youth-that-serves-adventists-represent-philippines-at-asean-interfaith-event/
