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3 January 2025 | In a video dated January 1, an Adventist woman named Melody Tapia tells about a visiting speaker to churches in the United States named Billy Mirander. He spoke on Sabbath morning in her congregation, giving a moving testimony of his gang life back in Jamaica, and that once he learned about […] Source: https://atoday.org/video-warns-of-pastor-visiting-churches-asking-for-money/
Examine the profound changes that occur when faith and commitment intersect, as former rebels embrace a new path. Learn how AWR brought love and hope to those ready for a fresh start. Like, subscribe, and engage with us in the comments! #FromWarriorsToWorshipers #TransformativeFaith #FaithAndLove #awr #adventistworldradio #short Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PndfyS0yr6I
3 January 2025 | An awakening. An opening into higher consciousness. A discovery. A parting of the fog of confusion, revealing a new kind of clarity. The dictionary says that an epiphany is a sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something. What an enticing definition! It makes me eager to […] Source: https://atoday.org/epiphaneous-awareness/
January 3, 2025 | On December 29, tragedy struck the Korean Union Conference when a plane crash occurred at Muan International Airport in the South Jeolla Province, South Korea, killing eleven congregants and students. According to reports, an Adventist lay leader with his wife and son, two Adventist students with their parents, and a congregant […] Source: https://atoday.org/adra-partners-with-community-for-south-korean-plane-crash/
Daily Lesson for Sabbath 4th of January 2025
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Memory Text:
“Jesus answered and said to him, ‘If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him’ ” (John 14:23, NKJV).
Many have been taught that the Greek word agape refers to a love that is unique to God, while other terms for love, such as phileo, refer to different kinds of love, more deficient than agape. Some claim, too, that agape refers to unilateral love, a love that only gives but never receives, a love entirely independent of human response.
However, careful study of divine love throughout Scripture shows that these ideas, though common, are mistaken. First, the Greek term agape refers not only to God’s love but also to human love, even sometimes misdirected human love (2 Timothy 4:10). Second, throughout Scripture, many terms other than agape refer to God’s love. For example, Jesus taught, “ ‘The Father Himself loves [phileo] you, because you have loved [phileo] Me’ ” (John 16:27, NASB). Here, the Greek term phileo is used not only of human love but also of God’s love for humans. Thus, phileo does not refer to a deficient kind of love but to God’s love itself.
Scripture also teaches that God’s love is not unilateral but deeply relational, in that it makes a profound difference to God whether or not humans reflect His love back to Him and to others.
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