21 July 2021 | A Sydney Water employee, who’d agreed to pose for a poster about warming up one’s joints before working, won an appeal for a $200,000 settlement from Vitality Works, an Adventist Sanitarium subsidiary company. The poster read “Feel great—lubricate!” next to her picture, which Reem Yelda felt was “objectively sexual and likely […] Source: https://atoday.org/australian-adventist-sanitarium-loses-appeal-over-suggestive-poster/
Mission Spotlight for July
Support for the mission activities of the Seventh-day Adventist church has always been part of the Sabbath School program. This video is Mission Spotlight for this week.
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HRH Prince Richard Duke of Gloucester Visits Stanborough Park Church
Wednesday 23 June 2021, is a date that will be long remembered by the Watford community, as the day a member of the royal family – HRH Prince Richard Duke of Gloucester, came to visit. The reason? To acknowledge the outstanding work and significant impact of One Vision.
Founded in August 2018 and its subsequent response to the Covid-19 pandemic (March 2020), One Vision is a community project which provides practical support to vulnerable individuals and families in the district of Watford. Its…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2021-07-21/hrh-prince-richard-duke-of-gloucester-visits-stanborough-park-church/
HRH Prince Richard Duke of Gloucester Visit Stanborough Park Church
Wednesday 23 June 2021, is a date that will be long remembered by the Watford community, as the day a member of the royal family – HRH Prince Richard Duke of Gloucester, came to visit. The reason? To acknowledge the outstanding work and significant impact of One Vision.
Founded in August 2018 and its subsequent response to the Covid-19 pandemic (March 2020), One Vision is a community project which provides practical support to vulnerable individuals and families in the district of Watford. Its…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2021-07-21/hrh-prince-richard-duke-of-gloucester-visit-stanborough-park-church/
Thursday: Reflector’s of God’s Light
Probably the most natural thing for us to do after working through an embarrassing failure and experiencing forgiveness is to try to forget that the event ever happened. Memories of failure can be painful.
What does David want to do with his painful experience? Read Psalm 51:13-19.
When a bowl or a precious vase falls and breaks into pieces, we normally sigh and throw the useless broken pieces away. In Japan there is a traditional art called kintsugi, which specializes in recreating broken pottery. A precious metal, such as liquid gold or silver, is used to glue the broken pieces together and to turn the broken item into something of beauty and value.
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Every time God forgives our transgressions and re-creates us again, something changes. God’s precious forgiveness glues our brokenness together, and the visible breaks can draw attention to His grace. We can become God’s loudspeakers. “My tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness” (Psalm 51:14). We don’t attempt to self-repair or auto-improve (even incrementally). Our broken spirits, our contrite hearts, are enough praise for God — and they are beams of light that the world can see surrounding us. Our experience of being forgiven attracts others who are searching for forgiveness.
What relationship is there between Psalm 51:1-19 and 1 John 1:9?
1 John 1:9 is a short summary of Psalm 51:1-19. As David knows that “A broken and a contrite heart — These, O God, You will not despise” (Psalm 51:17), John assures us that “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). We can take God at His word.
Again, David could not repair the tremendous damage that he had done through his acts and example to his family. He suffered the consequences of his decisions and actions. And yet, David knew that he had been forgiven. He knew that he needed to trust by faith that one day the true Lamb of God would come and stand in his place.
| How can you learn right now to apply the promises of 1 John 1:9 to your own life? How should you feel after you do so and know that the promise is for you, too? |
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