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With egg prices soaring Adventist nutritionists across the denomination are basking in a glow of self-righteousness brighter than a Loma Linda sunrise. These plant-based pioneers are dusting off their “Meatless Monday” playbooks and delivering a resounding “We told you so” to anyone still clinging to their omelet dreams. “Eggs are a luxury now? Shocking,” deadpanned […] Source: https://atoday.org/satire-adventist-nutritionists-solve-egg-shortage-by-not-caring-about-eggs/
The Pathfinder Club Game is a roll-and-write game involving friendly competition and coordination. On the game sheet, participants will try to accomplish many of the things involved in the first year of Pathfinders such as pitching a tent, hiking, swimming, learning the Pathfinder Pledge, and tending a fire – as well as occasionally giving neighbor […] Source: https://atoday.org/adventinnovate-the-pathfinder-club-game/
24 March 2025 | The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is partnering with the Marienhöhe School Center in Darmstadt, Germany, to support low-income students affected by the war in Ukraine through the Zhyve Slovo (Living Word) School. Run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the school has become a haven for the families devastated by […] Source: https://atoday.org/adra-germany-and-marienhohe-school-center-support-students-and-teachers-in-new-project/
Daily Lesson for Monday 24th of March 2025
Love is the foundation of God’s law. When God upholds the law, He upholds love. This is why Jesus died in order to save sinners, so that He could uphold the law while also extending grace to us. Thus, He could be both just and the justifier of those who believe (Romans 3:25-26). What an expression of love! Accordingly, the law is not invalidated by the process of redemption; rather, it is further confirmed.
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While some believe that grace and redemption cancel the law, Paul is clear that we are not to continue in sin so that grace increases. Rather, those who are in Christ by faith have been “baptized into His death” and are therefore to count themselves as dead to sin and alive to Christ.
The law of God is not sin, but (among other things) it makes sin and our sinfulness apparent to us. That is why, yes, “the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good” (Romans 7:12, NKJV). It reveals, as nothing else does, our great need of salvation, of redemption—the salvation and redemption that come only through Christ. Accordingly, we do not “make void the law through faith” but “on the contrary, we establish the law” (Romans 3:31, NKJV).
Christ came not to do away with the law but to fulfill all that was promised in the Law and in the Prophets. Thus, He emphasizes that “ ‘until heaven and earth pass away,’ ” not even “ ‘the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law’ ” (Matthew 5:18, NASB 1995).
The law of God itself represents God’s holiness—His perfect character of love, righteousness, goodness, and truth (Leviticus 19:2; Psalms 19:7-8; Psalms 119:142,172). In this regard, it is significant that, according to Exodus 31:18, God wrote the Ten Commandments on the stone tablets Himself. Written in stone, these laws are testimony of the unchanging character of God and of His moral government, which is founded on love—a central theme of the great controversy.
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24 March 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I have chronic pain that makes life difficult. A family member suggested I ask my pastor for anointing. Two of my relatives were anointed: one died and the other is still sick. Does anointing work, Aunty? Needing a Miracle Dear Miracle: The problem here may have to do […] Source: https://atoday.org/aunt-sevvy-does-anointing-for-healing-work/
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