31 July 2021 | Dear Adventist Today: I am responding to the article by Daniel A. Mora, “I Do Not Claim to Be a Prophetess” that appeared on a recent Adventist Today web site, which is his response to an article of mine that appeared on an earlier web site titled “A Response to Loren Seibold.” In […] Source: https://atoday.org/marvin-moore-objects-to-how-his-view-was-characterized/
Blind Goliaths & Women’s Ordination
By Debbie Hooper Cosier | 30 July 2021 | There’s some debate about Goliath, the Philistine champion who terrorized the Israelites day and night in the Valley of Elah. According to unreliable conversions from ancient units of measurement, his height at ‘six cubits and a span’ was about ten feet. But Dead Sea Scrolls scholars […] Source: https://atoday.org/blind-goliaths-womens-ordination/
Social Media Attacks Target Members Of Missing Child Summer Wells’ Adventist Church
30 July 2021 | The pastor of the Adventist Church where missing 5-year-old Summer Wells attended church with her family, has protested social media attacks targeting his members. Summer has been missing for over a month. Earlier this month, Pastor David Ryder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kingsport, Tennessee, told News Channel 11 the […] Source: https://atoday.org/social-media-attacks-target-members-of-missing-child-summer-wells-adventist-church/
Independent Adventist Ministry Plasters Jamaican Neighborhoods With Sunday Law Billboards
30 July 2021 | An independent Adventist ministry in Jamaica has put up billboards in several neighborhoods of Kingston (the country’s capital) to warn the government is getting ready to introduce Sunday Law nationally. Vincent Hoo and Wilhelm Lecky, leaders of FTB Ministries, are behind the billboard that warn “Sunday worship will be the Mark […] Source: https://atoday.org/independent-adventist-ministry-plasters-jamaican-neighborhoods-with-sunday-law-billboards/
Sabbath: Finding Rest in Family Ties
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Sabbath Afternoon
Read for This Week’s Study: Genesis 34:1-31; Hebrews 11:17-22; Deuteronomy 4:29; 1 John 3.1-2; Genesis 39:1-23; Ephesians 6:1-13.
Memory Text: “You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen” ( 2 Peter 3.17-18, NKJV).
The young man carefully scanned the horizon. Then, finally, he saw them. He had been looking for his brothers for days. As he approached, waving and calling to the grim-faced group, he got anything but a warm welcome. His own brothers actually wanted to kill him. If it hadn’t been for Reuben, there may have been no story to tell. Reuben convinced the rest just to rough him up a bit and throw him into a dry well. Later, Judah came up with the grand scheme to get rid of him and make a bit of money, too, by selling him to some passing slave traders.
What an example of family dysfunction!
We get to choose many things in life, but not our family. No one is perfect, and none of us have perfect families and perfect family relationships. Some of us are blessed by parents, siblings, and other family members that reflect God’s love, but many have to settle for less than the ideal. Family relationships are often complicated and painful, leaving us restless, hurt, and carrying loads of emotional baggage that we, in turn, off-load on others.
How can we find God’s rest in this area of our lives? This week we turn to the story of Joseph and his family ties in order to watch God at work bringing healing and emotional rest despite dysfunctional family relationships.
Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, August 7.
Amen!
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