Leaderboard

For the past several years a Lutheran congregation in in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, has owned a building in which a SDA congregation has also worshiped along with the Lutherans. On April 13, 2019, the SDAs assumed ownership of that building. As part of that process, the Lutheran congregation will continue to share in the use of the building. IOW, the building will continuer to be used by both groups for ministry. This agreement included the Minnesota Conference (SDA). For more detail, see the cited reference below. The above information came from: OUTLOOK, June 2019, pages 20 & 21.

Chaplain Barry Black has been named the 2019 Canterbury Medalist: https://www.becketlaw.org/about-us/canterbury-medal-gala/2019-canterbury-medal-gala/ https://www.nadadventist.org/news/us-senate-chaplain-barry-black-named-2019-canterbury-medalist

Later that evening, Peter, James and John went with Jesus into the inner part of the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus went there to pass through the awesome experience of separation from His Father. This would answer a couple of questions, “Does sin result in death?” Yes, but what kind of death? “Is it torture and […] The post The Disciples in Gethsemane and the Courtyard (13:6) appeared first on Jon Paulien's Blog. View the full article

Yes; but there are many difficult passages in scripture that she doesn't address. Furthermore, I agree that what she wrote made sense for her day and age; but things have changed in the past 150 years. For example, she had every reason to think the papacy/RCC was the beast/antichrist/whore (or all 3!!!); because the RCC was generally perceived as a threat back then; and there were many existing laws and proposals for Sunday Laws and Blue Laws back then. A national Sunday Law is the furthest thing from my mind with today's signs of the times. I think it's time to worry about all Christians (including SDA's) being persecuted, marginalized, and made irrelevant by the increasingly secular humanistic globalist movement.

Choked with cares ? Luk 8:14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

5 Things You Didn't Know About The Berlin Wall_2 On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan delivered a speech in West Berlin in which he challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. To mark the anniversary of Reagan's powerful Cold War speech, here are 5 things you didn't know about the Berlin Wall.. The Wall Fell by Mistake At a 1989 press conference held by a member of the politburo in East Germany, it was announced that there would be a lifting of restrictions on travel visas that would start right away. However, he misspoke because East Germans would still have to go through the process of visa applications, which was lengthy. Erroneous reports that the border crossings had been opened led to thousands of people showing up, and the head duty officer, overwhelmed, opened the crossing and soon the others followed suit. The Berlin Wall Was Really Two Walls Those who are unfamiliar with the Berlin Wall may not realize that it was actually two walls that were 27 miles long and separated East and West Berlin. The two high walls had a wide “death strip” in between them, which contained watchtowers, guard dogs, trip-wire machine guns, floodlights and anti-vehicle trenches. If someone did manage to get over the first wall, it wasn’t an easy task to cross over to the other wall and make it over that one to the other side. Thousands of People Escaped from East Germany Over the Years A young East German border guard, Corporal Conrad Schumann, was the first person to escape from East Germany two days after the border was originally sealed. Some escapees made it through by using the sewers, some dug tunnels and others hid in vehicles driven by visitors. Over the years, an is estimated 5,000 people made it into West Berlin and freedom. A Church Was Located in the Death Zone The only building that wasn’t destroyed inside the death zone was the Church of Reconciliation, although it was abandoned because its parishioners could not reach it to attend services anymore. Deciding that the church obscured the view from the watchtowers, it was intentionally destroyed in 1985, and a new building was constructed in its place. Thousands of Guard Dogs Patrolled Inside Patrolling “wall dogs” were used to help secure the “death strip,” and estimates mention between 6,000 and 10,000 animals that were tethered to 16-foot chains. It isn’t surprising that German shepherds were most popular, although Great Danes, Rottweilers and other breeds were used. The dogs were generally not used to attack attempted escapees but to keep them at bay until guards arrived.

Good for them! One of the SDA churches I attend rents the chapel in a Presbyterian Church. Their reason - they have more resources to give to the community and church if they don't have to pay for building and maintaining a stand-alone church.

"Rightly dividing" the word of God does not come even by careful reading of it. Which is why Paul stated in 2 Tim 3:7, "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." I have met people that can recite long passages of Scripture and cannot even correctly verbalize the meaning of it. The Pharisees of Jesus's time on earth, were intently studying Scripture looking for the Messiah and did not even recognize Him walking among them. I suspect that the same is even true of EGW's writings. Those who reject the gift given thru her or are other wise critical of what we have been given thru her will not really understand it. So, I would be careful of dismissing things that you don't understand.

hch, Why the sad emoji? Do you think EGW is an absolute essential in understanding scripture? You quote her and refer to her more than the Bible. Don't you think relying on her to explain the gospel to the world is a little cultish? Isn't God's word clear enough? How much stuff about popes, Mike Pence, and alleged RCC abominations is necessary to know in order to be saved? I have said earlier, I do read EGW. I accept what I can verify in scripture; a hold in abeyance things I can't verify or reject in scripture, and I reject everything that she says which is in conflict with scripture. I'm not throwing the baby out with the bathwater; just doubting (or rejecting) some of the stuff she says - just like I do with other inspired writings that I study. For example, Billy Graham had many amazing and inspiring things to say; but I reject his idea that we got straight to heaven or hell when we die; because the Bible says just the opposite.