by Bill Davis | 25 October 2019 | What’s it like to face death? As a younger person I didn’t think about death very deeply. In my early years of ministry, as I performed funerals, I would talk about death and how it wasn’t something to be afraid of. In trying to give comfort to […] Source: https://atoday.org/a-pastor-facing-death/
Liberia: Students from Adventist School Injured in Protest
25 October 2019 | Students at an Adventist School in Monrovia, Liberia, were injured as a protest turned violent in the city on October 16. The students from Monrovia’s Seventh-day Adventist High School were part of a crowd of other students targeted by police with tear gas at the protest. Students were injured by both […] Source: https://atoday.org/liberia-students-from-adventist-school-injured-in-protest/
Study Finds Diet Rich In Non-Indispensable Amino Acids Is Better For Cardiovascular Health
25 October 2019 | From a Loma Linda University Health press release – A study conducted by researchers in California and France has found that intakes of amino acids largely consisting of indispensable amino acids, such as those found in animal protein, are associated with a sharp increased risk of heart disease, while intakes rich […] Source: https://atoday.org/study-finds-diet-rich-in-non-indispensable-amino-acids-is-better-for-cardiovascular-health/
Auntie, it’s been 175 years—why hasn’t Jesus returned?
Dear Aunt Sevvy, My great-grandfather was Ellen White’s gardener. He spent most of his adult life believing that the Second Coming was just over the horizon. So did his daughter, my grandmother. Her daughter, my mom, worried, even in her final dementia, about the soon return of Jesus. Now I have grandchildren who are learning […] Source: https://atoday.org/auntie-its-been-175-years-why-hasnt-jesus-returned/
Sabbath: Violating the Spirit of the Law
Read for This Week’s Study: Neh. 5:1-5; Exod. 21:2-7; Micah 6:8; Neh. 5:7-12; Deut. 23:21-23; Neh. 5:14-19.
Memory Text: “Restore now to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also a hundredth of the money and the grain, the new wine and the oil, that you have charged them” (Nehemiah 5:11, NKJV).
To this day, we humans struggle with the question of wealth, poverty, and the gap between the rich and the poor and what can be done about it. Yes, Jesus said that “you have the poor with you always” (Matt. 26:11, NKJV), but that’s hardly an excuse to do nothing about helping them. On the contrary, Scripture admonishes us to do our part to help. We can barely call ourselves Christians otherwise.
How fascinating, too, that even amid the trials and tribulations of the returned exiles in rebuilding Jerusalem, this theme appears, not just that of poverty and the poor, but that of the even more problematic question of the rich oppressing the poor. This was a problem before the exile, and now, even back in their own land, it reappears.
This week we will see another manifestation of this age-old theme, and how Nehemiah worked to deal with it. As we will see, what made this oppression even worse was that it was being done within “the letter of the law”, so to speak, a powerful example of how we need to be careful not to let rules and regulations become an end in and of themselves rather than a means to an end, which is to reflect the character of Jesus.
Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, November 2.
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