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A few team members from Adventist World Radio have just returned from Nazareth, Israel. In this video, Kyle Allen of AWR360° gives you a firsthand look at the AWR360° Life Hope Center. In the place where Christ once walked, many people still need to hear about Him. Meeting people where they are, the AWR360° Life Hope Center in Nazareth will bring hope and healing through medical presentations, English classes and Bible seminars. An on-site radio station will also broadcast to the four surrounding nations in their native Arabic tongue. This is the first Arabic-speaking Seventh-day Adventist church in the history of Israel! It's a huge milestone for the completion of God's work in this region. Israel is defined in the Bible in detail in the book of Ezekiel as a land where both the 12 tribes and the "strangers in (their) midst" can claim inheritance. May many souls claim their inheritance in heaven because of the work being done by the AWR360° Life Hope Center. At this point, 500 million Arabs could potentially be reached through the broadcasting of the on-site radio station! Your continued prayers for all of AWR's projects are much appreciated and are what will make this project a reality. If you would like to donate to this project, you may do so here: https://awr.org/22G08. Your donation will bring healing and hope to this critical region. Watch Wisam's story, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8DxkM99IAs Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYBYeP7rwXI
A worship experience with the Ukrainian London Adventist Church
Some months ago, I accepted a request to share the Word of God with the Ukrainian church in London. The appointment coincidentally fell on Sabbath 5 March, just several days into the current conflict in Ukraine.
As the conflict has escalated, the world’s focus has been on dealing with the injustices happening in that country. And while we witness the tremendous humanitarian work carried out by charities (including ADRA) in the bordering countries of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova and…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-03-10/1082/
ATSS: Forgotten Women Who Shaped the Church
9 March 2022 | The history of the Adventist church starts with a woman. That woman still holds the highest place of any of our church pioneers. She is quoted, used as a spiritual authority, exalted as a leader, and by some almost worshipped. But after Ellen White, our church history remembered almost none of […] Source: https://atoday.org/atss-forgotten-women-who-shaped-the-church/
Breaking Biases
From suffragettes to supervisors, from revolutions to rights, from struggles to successes, women have been striving for decades for an equitable and inclusive existence, void of discrimination, stereotype and bias.
This determination has paved the way for International Women’s Days like this year’s theme – #BreakTheBias. *1
Challenging behaviours
Hosting various seminars and discussions with women in leadership over the years, I continue to hear of the disparities in how females are treated…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-03-09/1081/
Thursday: Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of Our Faith
Read Hebrews 12:1-3. What do these verses ask us to do?
The climax of the exposition on faith really arrives with Jesus in Hebrews chapter 12. Paul started the letter with Jesus, who is the “coming one” and who “will not delay” (Hebrews 10:37, ESV), and Paul concludes it with Jesus the “perfecter” of our faith (Hebrews 12:2, ESV). Jesus is the “author and perfecter of faith” (NASB). This means that Jesus is the One who makes faith possible and is the example who perfectly embodies what a life of faith is all about. With Jesus, faith has reached its perfect expression.
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Jesus is the “founder” (or “author,” or “pioneer”) of our faith in at least three senses.
First, He is the only one who has finished the race in its fullest sense. The others talked about in the previous chapter have not yet reached their goal (Hebrews 11:39-40). Jesus, however, has entered God’s rest in heaven and is seated at the Father’s right hand. We, together with these others, will reign with Jesus in heaven (Revelation 20:4).
Secondly, it was actually Jesus’ perfect life that has made it possible for these others to run their race (Hebrews 10:5-14). If Jesus had not come, the race of everyone else would have been futile.
Finally, Jesus is the reason we have faith. As one with God, He expressed the faithfulness of God toward us. God never gave up in His efforts to save us, and that is why we will reach the reward in the end if we don’t give up. Jesus ran with patience and remained faithful, even when we were faithless (2 Timothy 2:13). Our faith is only a response to His faithfulness.
In the end, Jesus is the “perfecter” of faith because He perfectly exemplifies how the race of faith is run. How did He run? He laid aside every weight by giving up everything for us (Philippians 2:5-8). He never sinned, ever. Jesus held His sight firmly on the reward, which was the joy set before Him, that of seeing the human race redeemed by His grace. So, He endured misunderstanding and abuse; He stared down the shame of the cross (Hebrews 12:2-3).
Now it is our turn to run. Though we can never achieve what Jesus did in our own strength, we have His perfect example before us, and so by faith in Him, and keeping our eyes on Him (as have the others before us), we press on ahead in faith, trusting in His promises of a great reward.
Amen!
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