Adventist Today shares a sense of hopeful gratitude and freedom in Jesus in a world dominated by vitriol and violence, says AT Executive Committee member, Chris Daley. He calls on AT readers to donate to our Spring Fundraiser to help contribute to this “freedom journey.” Please give generously here. Source: https://atoday.org/at-excomms-chris-daley-help-at-share-hopeful-gratitude-with-your-spring-fundraiser-donation/
2 Adventists Killed During Attacks on Mariupol, Ukraine
First time in eight years of war in Ukraine that Adventist church members have died, according to Stanislav Nosov, president of the Ukrainian Union Conference. Violent attacks in Mariupol set to increase as Russian forces are said to be concentrating efforts on eastern Ukraine. Mayor of Mariupol said more than 100,000 people still needed urgent […] Source: https://atoday.org/2-adventists-killed-during-attacks-on-mariupol-ukraine/
This Essay Might Be Satire—But I’m Not Entirely Sure Anymore
By Loren Seibold | 7 April 2022 | I remember, years ago when I was a young pastor in the Bay Area of Northern California, talking to an older pastor friend who worked in a church near me. I remember saying to him, “I’m looking forward to the time when those of us who are […] Source: https://atoday.org/this-essay-might-be-satire-but-im-not-entirely-sure-anymore/
“Do Not Open Your Bible or You Will Die!”
For 20 years, Lily had followed her husband’s Roman Catholic religion, but he had never once allowed her to open and read the Bible. Then one day, an AWR representative visited their town in India, looking for someone to translate Bible lessons into the local dialect. Lily knew she could do it, and gladly accepted the challenge. For the first time in her life, she could now read the Bible. But to her surprise, it contradicted many of the church’s traditions! That’s when supernatural forces began attacking Lily, and she fell ill. In her distress, an unseen voice kept ordering her, “Do not open the Bible or you will die!” Watch Lily’s amazing story and see the miracle that took place not only in her heart, but in her husband’s heart—and I love that God used Adventist World Radio to do it. Yours in the Blessed Hope, Duane McKey
President Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Vwa9T9OFY
Inside Story: Forgiven in Prison ~ Part 1
Forgiven in Prison, Part 1
By Andrew McChesney
The volunteers chose slips of paper with the names of inmates who had signed up for Bible studies at a prison in Spain. But nobody took one slip of paper. “Doesn’t anyone want to meet with this man?” asked Dante Marvin Herrmann, a 36-year-old theology student at Sagunto Adventist College.
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“He’s too difficult to work with,” said one volunteer.
“He always mocks God,” said another.
Dante prayed and sensed a still, small voice say, “Go visit Matías.”
A prison guard brought Matías, a young, clean-shaven man, to Dante in an empty dining hall of the prison’s maximum-security block. Unlike the serial killers and other hardened convicts locked up in the block, Matías didn’t have any visible tattoos or an angry scowl on his face.
“You don’t look like the other prisoners,” Dante said.
Matías laughed. “You don’t know who I am,” he said.
“I don’t really care who you are or what you did,” Dante said. “We all have made mistakes in our lives, and we can’t change the past.”
Matías took a close look at Dante. He saw blue tattoos covering his arms and stretched-out holes in his earlobes left by body piercing.
“Are you from the Seventh-day Adventist Church?” Matías asked. “You don’t look like the other Adventists.”
“God can change every one of us,” Dante replied. He told how he had sold his soul to the devil at 17, joined a street gang, and worked as a drug dealer before finding the love of God in the Bible and becoming an Adventist. When he finished, the hour allotted for Bible study was up.
“Can you visit me again, please?” the inmate said. “I want to learn about this unknown God whom you spoke about. I’ve never heard about a loving God. I’ve only heard about an angry, condemning God.”
Dante promised to return the next Sabbath.
Back at the college, Dante mentioned Matías to a teacher. “Do you know who he is?” the teacher asked. When Dante shook his head, the teacher suggested that he do an online news search. The online search prompted Dante to pray. “God, this is very serious,” he said. “Why did you send me to him?” He sensed a still, small voice reply, “Dante, I have grace for you. I have forgiven you. I can forgive him, too.”
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