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En mi lengua materna, el holandés, deseamos a la gente un «feliz» o un «bendito» año nuevo. Hay una historia sobre el origen de esta diferencia: los protestantes prefieren el término «feliz», mientras que los católicos optan por «bendecido». Me gustan ambos conceptos: la felicidad humana y la bendición divina. Durante la última semana […] Source: https://atoday.org/las-bendiciones-de-un-ano-nuevo/
by Loren Seibold | 17 January 2025 | In comments under a recent Aunt Sevvy, someone asked about the status of church employees under the law. The question intrigued me enough that I started digging a bit into it. (I’m focusing here on the United States, since that’s where I have lived and worked. Perhaps […] Source: https://atoday.org/the-ministerial-exception-why-church-workers-dont-have-employment-protection/
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Daily Lesson for Sabbath 18th of January 2025
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Memory Text:
“ ‘Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget you’ ” (Isaiah 49:15, NKJV).
Emotions are often viewed as undesirable and to be avoided. For some people, emotions are intrinsically irrational, and thus, the good man or woman would not be described as “emotional.” In some ancient Greek philosophy, the idea of the “rational” man, who is (mostly) either impervious to passions or who rules over his emotions by way of unemotional reason, is prized as the ideal.
Unbridled emotions can be problematic, yes. However, God created people with the capacity for emotions, and God Himself is displayed throughout Scripture as experiencing profound emotions. If God can experience deep emotions, as the Bible consistently portrays, then emotions cannot be intrinsically bad or irrational—for the God of the Bible is perfectly good and possesses perfect wisdom.
In fact, there are beautiful truths to be garnered from the realization that God’s love for us is a deeply emotional love, but always with the caveat that though God’s love (emotional or otherwise) is perfect, it should not be thought of as identical to emotions as humans experience them.
(0)Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/25a-04-god-is-passionate-and-compassionate/
by Don Fraser | 16 January 2025 | What follows is, I admit, speculation. I’m exploring the possibility that we human beings might have been genetically designed to have access to both eternal existence and to the infinite universe. There are two key phrases from the story of creation as set out in chapter 1 […] Source: https://atoday.org/genes-and-genesis-are-we-designed-to-grow-for-eternity/
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