Are you standing in the place of God?
YEN CRESS You may have heard it said, “Jesus is our example.” When we look closely at this claim, however, we find some inherent problems. If Jesus is our example, […]
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Category: Devotional
Thank God for Turkey and Cream Cheese Frosting
COLLEEN TINKER This coming week we in the United States will celebrate our annual Thanksgiving holiday. This day is rooted deeply in our country’s early history and echoes the stories […]
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The King Is Coming!
ROLAANT MCKENZIE Near the end of the 1983 film, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, the Rebel Alliance after many years of conflict against the tyranny of […]
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Are You Bought With A Price?
MARTIN CAREY It’s Friday afternoon, and you just got home from work. You step into the living room and stop to look around. There are clothes on the floor, muddy […]
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Take This World But Give Me Jesus
KELSIE PETERSEN A year ago, I wrote a post about changing seasons and the unchanging nature of God. I’ll confess, the “season” of life here has been more “winter” than […]
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God Will Never, Ever Abandon Us
BY ROLAANT MCKENZIE Recently I read an interview of Bishop Athanasius Schneider. Bishop Schneider’s parents were Black Sea Germans from Odessa, Ukraine. After World War II, they were sent by Joseph […]
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What Is True?
BY COLLEEN TINKER A Facebook conversation drew me in this week. The original post (written by a former Adventist) asked, in essence, how much personal discomfort and loss we would […]
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Jesus Provides Certainty in an Uncertain World
ROLAANT MCKENZIE Open Doors, based in Ermelo, The Netherlands, is a Christian mission that supports persecuted Christians around the world by distributing Bibles and Christian literature, providing discipleship training, and […]
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A Woman Accused
MARTIN CAREY It was the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, and the city was crowded with festive Israelites. The feast was to remember how God had preserved their […]
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Trusting in New Ways
KELSIE PETERSEN Last month, I wrote about the safe and convenient “box” that Adventism provides. It is a neat and tidy place to be, one that provides all the answers as […]
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One Blood, One Family in Jesus Christ
ROLAANT MCKENZIE Many years ago, I was listening to a morning news, commentary, and opinion radio show when a man calling himself Davey called in to give his opinion on […]
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Interviewing the Kids of Former Adventists
This week as I was considering topics for this blog, my thoughts were interrupted by the noise of unabated laughter in the back rooms of my home. Our kids, Joshua […]
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How the Lord Broke Through My Pride
DARREL CARSON “I go to church over there,” I said, pointing to the little white church nestled among the trees on the other side of the field. “You worship the […]
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There Is a New Country!
ROLAANT MCKENZIE In Peter Jackson’s 2003 movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the Dark Lord Sauron sent an enormous force of […]
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