News reports from Andrews University, Germany, Oakwood University, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, United States Adventist Theological Schools Receive Pharmaceutical Money Andrews University and Oakwood University received substantial grants to develop pastoral resources and support ministerial training from the Lilly Endowment Inc. Andrews University (AU), located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States, received $997,444 (USD) […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-january-7-2022/
But God Said It—Didn’t He?
by Russ Spangler | 6 January 2022 Seventh-day Adventists believe that if we can just get people to read the Bible, they would see that God is real, and that God loves them. That hasn’t worked for everyone. A.A. Milne, the author of Winnie the Pooh, wrote: The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, […] Source: https://atoday.org/but-god-said-it-didnt-he/
Inside Story: Miraculous Rock
Miraculous Rock
A miracle rock stopped the pickup truck of Bounprany Vannady, who was serving as president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Laos.
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It was just an ordinary creek. Any car could pass through its shallow waters easily. No car was known to have ever gotten stuck there. But the pickup truck decided to stop just as it entered the creek. It simply stopped.
Bounprany and two young pastors traveling with him found a rock blocking the way, but it seemed to be too small to stop the vehicle. Just to make sure, they moved the rock and tried to restart the vehicle. It refused to start. They hailed down a passing car and tried to jumpstart the battery, but the pickup truck still refused to start.
Since it was getting dark, Bounprany walked over to the nearest village. Several villagers came back to the pickup truck to help, but they couldn’t get it to start. The village chief invited Bounprany to spend the night in his house, while the young pastors stayed with the pickup truck.
“What are you doing in our area?” the village chief asked.
Bounprany explained that he was taking some sporting equipment to the next village. He was hoping to establish a connection with that village.
As he listened, the village chief sensed that Bounprany was a Christian, and he announced that he was a Christian. He pulled out a Voice of Prophecy correspondence school certificate issued by the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Laos several years earlier. He said he had reached out to a former church leader for support several years earlier but had been dismissed, so now he and about 200 other villagers were worshiping Jesus on their own. He asked Bounprany to teach him and the villagers about the seventh-day Sabbath.
It was at the moment that Bounprany realized that an angel must have stopped the pickup truck. It was like Balaam’s donkey who refused to go farther because it saw an angel of the Lord. This car must have seen an angel of the Lord standing in front of it in the creek, so it decided to stop.
The next morning, the pickup truck started at the first turn of the key.
Thank you for your Sabbath School mission offering that will help spread the gospel to the people of Laos and the other countries of the Southern Asia-Pacific Division. Part of this quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Offering will help open an elementary school in Laos.
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Friday: Further Thought ~ In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews
Further Thought:
Despite all the good and hopeful truths in the book of Hebrews, there is also a series of warnings that reach their climax in chapters 10-12. These sections have at least two common elements. First, they all compare the desert generation with the readers of Hebrews. Second, they exhort us to have faith.
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The desert generation was the one that saw the amazing power of God unleashed in signs and wonders in their deliverance from Egypt. They also heard God speak, from Mount Sinai, the Ten Commandments. They saw the column of fire in the night and the protecting cloud during the day. They ate manna, bread from heaven. They also drank water that sprang from the rocks wherever they camped. But when they arrived at the border of the Promised Land, they were not able to trust God. They lacked faith, which is the core of what God requires. “Without faith it is impossible to please Him” (Hebrews 11:6, NKJV).
Paul says that we, like the desert generation, are also at the border of the Promised Land (Hebrews 10:37-39). Our privileges and responsibilities are greater, however. We did not hear God speak at Mount Sinai, but we have seen through Scripture a revelation of God greater than the one at Mount Zion: God in the flesh, Jesus Christ (Hebrews 12:18-24). The question is: Will we have faith? The author encourages us to follow the example of a great list of characters, which culminates with Jesus Himself.
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A Tribute to the late Emeritus Archbishop, Desmond Tutu
The Late Desmond Tutu (Nobel Prize Winner)
Former British Union Conference Education Director, Dr Keith Davidson, hosted an online forum attended by over 60 individuals on Thursday, 30 December, to honour the late Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The anti-apartheid campaigner and Nobel Laurette died on 26 December in Cape Town aged 90.
Many have described Tutu as the moral conscience of the South African nation during and after the apartheid era. Nelson Mandela, then President of South…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-01-06/1041/
