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I can't find that comment, ""It is recommended that leaders at all levels of the church should always work with the most recent edition of the", anywhere in the 2015 version of my electronic version of the Church Manual, therefore, IMO, that comment from an older version can't appropriately be used.

Something to think about--hunger: NOTE: With thanks to Adventist Today:

Every Monday, if not a holiday, my wife and I spend 4 - 6 hours distributing food to people who need it. This distribution is sponsored by a local SDA Church. NOTE: On holidays we are not able to obtain the food needed to distribute.

GREGORY our S.D.A. church in TENNESSEE that I attend has a pantry with boxed and caned food==== we also have a small freezer with frozen meals===plus baby diapers ==baby wipes===baby formula dgrimm60

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

5 Things You Didn't Know About Alexander The Great On June 13, 323 B.C, Alexander the Great died and with him one of the greatest military minds in history. Here are 5 things you probably didn’t know about Alexander the Great... The Great Philosopher Aristotle Was His Teacher Philip II of Macedon was Alexander’s father. He hired one of the world’s greatest philosophers, Aristotle, to teach his young son Alexander, which will be later Alexander the Great. Aristotle taught Alexander about medicine, philosophy, morals, religion, logic, and art. It was Aristotle who inspired Alexander’s great love for literature. It is said that Aristotle gave Alexander his annotated copy of Homer’s “The Illiad”, a book that Alexander considered a handbook on the art of war. He had this book by his side during his legendary conquests. Alexander Never Lost A Battle Alexander the Great’s military tactics and strategies are still studied in military academies today. From his first victory at age 18, Alexander gained a reputation of leading his men to battle with impressive speed, allowing smaller forces to reach and break the enemy lines before his foes were ready. After securing his kingdom in Greece, in 334 B.C. Alexander crossed into Asia (present-day Turkey) where he won a series of battles with the Persians under Darius III. The centerpiece of Alexander’s fighting force was the 15,000-strong Macedonian phalanx, whose units held off the sword-wielding Persians with 20-foot-long pikes called sarissa. He Named Over 70 Cities After Himself - And One After His Horse Alexander commemorated his conquests by founding dozens of cities which he named Alexandria, after himself. The most famous of these, founded at the mouth of the Nile in 331 B.C., is today Egypt’s second-largest city. Near the site of the battle of the river Hydaspes—the costliest victory of his Indian campaign—Alexander founded the city of Bucephala, named for his favorite horse, which was mortally wounded in the battle. The Cause Of His Death Remains A Mystery Alexander the Great fell ill after downing a bowl of wine at a party. Two weeks later, the 32-year-old ruler was dead. Since his father, Philip II of Macedon, had been murdered, suspicion arose about whether he had been poisoned, most notably by his general Antipater and Antipater’s son Cassander. In modern times, medical experts have speculated that malaria, lung infection, liver failure or typhoid fever may have done Alexander in. The Great Conqueror’s Body Was Stolen Alexander’s body was treated by Egyptian embalmers in Babylon and on its way to Macedonia was stolen by Ptolomy I and kept in Egypt to heighten his claim to the throne. Another rumor was that his body had been stolen by Venetian merchants, who thought it was the remains of Saint Mark, and took it to Venice to St. Mark’s Basilica. Although extensive archaeological searches have been made to discover the tomb and body of Alexander, it still remains a mystery what really happened.

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Promise From Him cometh my salvation Psalm 62:1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.

Thats a matter of opinion; and not well demonstrated by your profuse comment. What I quoted does come from EGW whether or not you approve. It really is that simple. I have all the books you mentioned above and seems to me I am not the one quoting out of context. While EGW did at times comment that The Holy Spirit is a mystery not easily understood, she never once denied the many things about Him that were/are understood. She did NOT once profess to "understand" The Holy Spirit, rather, she wrote about what scripture says about HIM. THAT IS the context, which you have stated above "doesn't matter." There is so much written in scripture about The Holy Spirit, one does not really need EGW to know what God has told us about Him. But it remains disappointing to see people who want to twist her writings and ministry into something they NEVER were. SCRIPTURAL DESIGNATIONS FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT

I wonder if it might be well to take a Sabbath break and to enjoy the blessings of Sabbath fellowship?

You know you and your leader is obsess with Obama. How many times will I have to say to you I will not be a part of your ranting about the well love Black President! Prove it! I never hear you say a word about his character. Did you hear him cuss or have a photo shoot by gassing people? Oh he even had it upside down! Let's see how many lies have he told like you know who. How many playboy bunnies has he had being married? Matter of fact how many wives had he had. Was he born in Afrika, was he afraid to show his taxes, his grades. He receive the Noble Prize and he is not taking money from the military to build a wall that Mexico was going to pay! When did he hide in the White House bunker or can't read. How many General talked about him and said he was a divider! Did he have the economy go back worst than ever before! How many people died under the Ebola here in the US and people thought it was a hoax! You know, I can keep going on and on and on and on and on never stopping! You want to go down that road with me, fine! ? I don't care what you think that's the problem! You see Photodude you believe him and I don't! So it is fine with me. That's my high! You make me realize how much you make me so happy! Nope I rather be a historian and stay Black; you and your leader can be the scientist! Hey,I take Zinc too it heal my wound real fast a few years ago! Yeah, Ben Carson is Black too! We fed him and Candice while they attended Yale! My brother in law is White! I am rude when I hear you talk about abortions and Black people all the time, so please learn the truth from the historian and not the scientist. Remember all have sin and no one lives in a glass house. Christian people right in your church might have aborted a child you don't know. Many of them go to church knowing that have done many things wrong! Judge not that you be judge! Your leader is not sorry for what he does and he is a user and that is not judging. He lets you know just look how he has handle this pandemic! Finally, there are many things I respect you in your comments. What I don't respect is some of the things you portray about a person who does not respect his wife at all! You know the other things I have constantly said and that is NOT POLITICS! Happy Sabbath Photodude Be Blessed!

The problem with you is that you never have ideas. You like you know who are a match when it comes to understanding the truth! No ideas are going to cost a lot of people their lives. They wearing a mask is hoax, and all the people protesting were looters and thugs! They are the Evangelical church folks that seen their leader us the non political military on innocent people for a photo shoot! Or even an elderly White man that was knocked down by the police and they just left him there because he was protesting! Yep, you have no idea! Peace!

Show me where EGW use the word hominid? You uses that word yourself! Because they did not understand how THEIR BODIES were not like us, coming out of Protestant churches; everyone thinks they are supposed to know everything and they didn't. Spirits are beings, flesh are beings made from different sources. We came from dirt can you create a being from that substance? They bodies are Spirit a form we know nothing about. Satan knows more then we do and he knows and distorts everything that THE ALMIGHTY SAYS! We all have read THE FATHER IS A SPIRIT and the part that says to worship HIM in spirit and in truth. Satan had the KJV to bring in spiritualism a false belief in the truth about the word spirit. Instead using the word mind they used spirit. Why? Because they believed in ghost, EVIL SPIRITS (HELLO) who you accept but not the truth about YAHWEH! Mary nor the two disciples on the road to Damascus recognized YAHSHUA after HE rose! HE came and ate, then disappeared in front of the disciples. He did the same thing in Ex 24:10 or when Abraham saw YAHSHUA and two angels and they ate with him! The problem is we rather believe a lie than the truth if it is slapping us in the face! The Europeans have distorted a lot but NOT ENOUGH the truth cannot be destroyed! What gets me people claim to believe the Bible but they don't! The word person is NOT actually in the original Text. The Europeans Bible Scholars put in it there to make THE ALMIGHTY ONES like the Greek theos! You know the ones who can have sex with women! That is why so many believe that angels who have no gender can have sex. The Bible never called Adam man that is an English word based on male ego. YAHWEH SAID; Let US make Adams both male and female. Those two words deals with their individual sex organs. But, again people will believe a lie quicker than the truth. The world had to accept what happen to George Floyd because YAHWEH open the world's eyes to see the truth and all realize what I been saying about prejudice has now come alive. Mass protesting of all colors. YAHWEH has had enough! You have taken the pagan name god spell backward is dog, when HE gave us all HIS NAME. Go ahead believe what you want but don't put the pioneers in with your lies! You will not find EGW or any of them used the word hominid! Happy Sabbath!

5 Things You Didn't Know About Anne Frank_3 On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary as a gift for her birthday, which she wrote in while she and her family were hidden in an attic from the Nazis. Here we round up 5 important facts that you probably didn't know about Anne Frank and her diary... The Woman Who Found the Diary Said She Would Have Burned It if She Read Miep Gies, a secretary at the factory where the Franks hid for two years, was a supporter of the family and regularly visited with Anne. After the raid on August 4, 1944, Gies went up to the attic and found Anne's diary strewn across the floor. She collected the papers but never read them, instead storing them safely and returning them to Otto Frank after the war. It's a good thing she didn't read them, too: Gies later confessed that had she read the pages, she would have burned them because they implicated her and everyone else involved in a crime that could have cost them their lives. She Hoped to Become a Writer Frank noted in her diary that she would someday like to become a famous writer, but she unfortunately never knew that she did exactly that through the diary of her daily life, hopes and thoughts. She also included in her diary that she wanted to learn different languages and study art history, see beautiful dresses and do exciting things. For example, her diary entry on March 16, 1944 said that writing gave her an outlet to avoid her suffocating confinement. Anne Frank Wasn’t the Only One in the Family to Keep a Diary Margot Betti Frank, Anne’s older sister, was known to keep a diary. However, although Anne’s was kept safe by a family friend after the Franks were arrested by the Nazis and taken to prison camps, Margot’s diary disappeared and never turned up. The Diary of Anne Frank Was Banned From Some Schools Despite being a prolific writer and deep thinker, Frank was still just a young girl, and therefore, some of the entries depict the natural thoughts and curiosities of a young girl discovering her own anatomy. Because of a brief passage where Frank wonders about her own body, the book has been regularly banned from school reading lists. But that's not even the silliest reason for banning the book: schools in Alabama once banned it for being a "downer." Yikes. She Wrote Two Versions of Her Diary The first version (A) began in the book that she received for her 13th birthday and spilled over into at least two notebooks. Anne rewrote her diary in 1944 after hearing a call on the radio for people to save their war-time diaries in order to help document the suffering of the Nazi occupation once war was over. She planned to publish this book about her time in the Secret Annex after the war. For a title, she came up with Het Achterhuis or The Secret Annex. In this second version, known as B, Anne omits parts of A, while also adding new sections.