Closer To Heaven
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9 February 2026 | Dear Aunt Sevvy: Our church has proclaimed itself the remnant church because we have a prophet. Do we qualify as having a prophet when said prophet has been dead for well over a century? Gentle Reader: While Ellen White was alive, she was a dynamic leader: she reacted to problems in […] Source: https://atoday.org/is-ellen-white-the-sign-that-adventists-are-the-remnant-church/
On a cold night in Alberta on Feb. 7, the RCMP stated that they responded to a report of a charter bus that had hit the median and rolled over at approximately 10:27pm on Highway 43, one kilometre west of Debolt.
The vehicles was a charter bus carrying the Grande Prairie Adventist Church Pathfinder Club home from a Pathfinder Bible Experience program in Edmonton.
Of the 37 occupants, Pathfinder leader Lillian Banda was pronounced dead at the scene. Of the remaining occupants, 6 sustained serious injuries and were taken to local hospital, where they have been treated and released. All of the other travellers are now safely home.
Alberta Conference president Pastor Jeff Potts said the Conference will send a team of pastors trained in counselling to Grande Prairie Church to provide support. Pastor Dan Wilson of Grand Prairie Adventist Church is holding a special prayer service February 8 6pm which will include pathfinders Conference wide. Youth Director Robert Dorelus will also be attending to support the youth.
“Please keep the Grande Prairie church in your prayers,” Potts said. “Pray for [pastor] Dan Wilson as he ministers to his church family.”
Written by Pastor Shawn Ellis Editor Messenger Magazine with contributions from Troy McQueen Communications director Alberta Conference Ericka Rollings Everything Grand Prairie.
Source: https://adventistmessenger.ca/news/alberta-pathfinder-club-caught-in-tragic-collision
Comments of the Week Feb 2-8 “It is said that in heaven, SDA’s (Seventh-day Adventists) will not have crowns with jewels or precious stones. Instead, the crowns will be covered in watches.” –David Zackrison on Are Adventists the ones that came up with watches being the acceptable, functional replacement for the wedding ring? Comments on […] Source: https://atoday.org/comments-of-the-week-feb2-8/
8 February 2026 Pastor Dan Wilson of the Grand Prairie church in Alberta has reported on Facebook that the Grand Prairie Pathfinder club was involved in a fatal accident last night. “The bus driver tried to switch lanes near the DeBolt exit and lost control because of severe ice. The bus rolled twice, and many […] Source: https://atoday.org/grand-prairie-alberta-pathfinder-club-bus-in-fatal-accident/
Daily Lesson for Monday 9th of February 2026
Unlike the enemies of the Cross, who “set their mind on earthly things” and have no greater god than their bellies (Philippians 3:19), Christian citizenship is in heaven, and our ruler is Jesus Christ Himself.
Image © Phil McKay at Goodsalt.com
To underscore the point, Paul highlights the need for “these humble bodies of ours” (Philippians 3:21, NET), subject to disease, deterioration, and death, to be transformed to be like Christ’s glorious resurrection body.
• Job 19:25-27
• Luke 24:39
• 1 Corinthians 15:42-44
• 1 Corinthians 15:50-54
• Colossians 3:4
In the end, through Jesus, death, “the last enemy,” will be destroyed (1 Corinthians 15:26). And that is our greatest hope, the ultimate promise that we have been given in Jesus—not only the end of death but a whole new body, even a “glorious body” (Philippians 3:21, ESV).
In a book about how to find “salvation” without God, which argued, rather foolishly, that overcoming the fear of death is “salvation,” author Luc Ferry does admit that Christianity “enables us not only to transcend the fear of death, but also to beat death itself. And by doing so in terms of individual identity, rather than anonymity or abstraction, it seems to be the only version that offers a truly definitive victory of personal immortality over our condition as mortals.”—Ferry, A Brief History of Thought (New York: HarperCollins, 2011, Kindle edition), p. 90. Quite an admission, coming from an atheist.
Thus, for Paul, our heavenly citizenship includes the promise of the resurrection and eternal life in a whole new existence that we can barely imagine now.
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