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Lou: Graham, you referred to this beautiful scene in the New Testament where a woman taken in adultery is brought to Jesus and He says, “Neither do I condemn you” (John 8:3-11). But when you go back to the Old Testament, God is ordering the destruction and death of Achan and his family (Joshua 7). […] The post Questions and Answers (13:10) appeared first on Jon Paulien's Blog. View the full article

? My joy fulfilled John 17:13 And now come I to Thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves.

Faithfulness and truth ? Isa 25:1 O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

In the following article a person who is not a SDA writes on the Sabbath; https://noqreport.com/2019/06/01/choose-keep-sabbath-average-evangelical-christian/

You re telling me that one of your pastors had The One Project in their church! That is highly suspect. The One Project held multi-day meetings in hotel conference centers. After The One Project disbanded, there was one small meeting in a SDA Church. NOTE: I also am aware of a short one-day meeting held in the home congregation of one of the leaders of The One Project. This was outside of the norm and really not like the typical multi-day meeting in a hotel Conference Center. Hobie, I suspect that you do not know what The One Project is. Please give me the date and the name of the SDA congregation that hosted The One Project and I will check it out. If you are correct, and I am wrong, I will publicly state that you are correct and acknowledge that I am wrong. But, until you do that, I will continue to say that you have born false witness. When you make specific charges as you did, it is OK to ask for proof.

I tend to think of the Sabbath not as a Commandment, but a privilege. I don't "have to observe" the Sabbath; I "get to enjoy" the Sabbath! I also look at the Sabbath as a prophecy - those of us who are in the Kingdom will enjoy an eternity of "rest" from the pointless toil, temptations, and consequences of sin that plague us in this age.

The Bible contains many stories of Jesus socializing with Pharisees. His greatest apostle was a Pharisee. I don't recall a single Bible story of Jesus socializing with Sadducees. Maybe it made Him sad, you see? If believe that Jesus may have identified with true Pharisees; while He reviled the hypocritical ones.

I attended a church yesterday which had computers, big screens around. Even the speaker had to use the monitor to know what to say next! (Not the sermon) I was less than impressed with the service as it seemed to lack any solemness. If I were "shopping" for a new church, I would have kept going. A few quotes from the linked article: Why Churches Should Ditch The Projector Screens And Bring Back Hymnals Perhaps we no longer hear about the worship debate because everyone is simply tired of fighting. Positions have calcified. No matter how well-intentioned, few minds are being changed. Bringing up the subject only tears open wounds that haven’t quite healed. In a last-gasp effort, here’s the case for bringing back hymnals and ditching those awful screens. Screens Don’t Belong In Church To the first point: they’re horrifically ugly. In churches that don’t look like churches, the sort that instinctively prompt you to look for basketball nets and a scoreboard, they almost fit. Hymnals Provide Deep, Theologically Rich Worship As hymnals fade, theology also suffers. The rich repository of religious wisdom contained in hymns will be lost. The old-fashioned language of hymns may strike some as unusual, but their text teaches the Christian faith far better than most of the praise choruses that dominate contemporary services. Old hymns were carefully crafted with theology at the forefront. https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/18/churches-should-ditch-projector-screens-bring-back-hymnals/

hch, While your stories make interesting reading, What you are posting is just that - a story. If you were to publish it, it would have to be classified as fiction. The historical facts may be true, but - your spiritual interpretation of history is mostly pure fiction. Plus, you are making SDA's seem like a bunch of cultish kooks. I myself have some "different" ideas about some things that I believe, or the mental constructs I put on certain things so that they make sense to me. They probably wouldn't make sense to anyone else; so I don't post them here (although some of the stuff I post admittedly runs counterculture). I feel the same way about your posts. They may make sense to you, but most of them make no sense to me. Did you ever see a movie called "A Beautiful Mind"? In a way, you remind me of the guy in that movie; except that your obsession is prophetic interpretation rather than conspiracy theories. I say the above respectfully; not to harass you. I'm sure that administrators are watching what you post.