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The Upper Room, Part II*
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Throughout his ministry Jesus deliberately and intentionally broke and challenged societal stereotypes and cultural taboos. He spoke to women publically; he encouraged women to speak out publically. He taught women equally with men; he gave them the Spirit of understanding and freedom to study. The apostle chosen by him to take the news of the resurrection to the disciples was a woman. “Go and tell,” he said to Mary.
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Primary Sources
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This past spring Navy chaplain Lieutenant Commander Nathan Solomon learned that the Taliban had convinced local Afghani citizens that the Afghan soldiers deployed alongside Americans on a base in Helmand province weren’t Muslims. It wasn’t true, of course. But the rumor was destabilizing, for the purpose of the joint deployment is to build the citizens’ trust in the Afghan military so they can eventually be left in charge.
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No One Has Ascended into Heaven
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The prophets of Israel gave to Western Civilization its orientation toward the future. They were the ones who diagnosed the need for a radical change from the status quo, and predicted that this change would come in the future. Traditional societies were anchored in the annual natural cycle. Life was to be lived in conformity with the constant repetition of the vital cycle in nature.
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The Upper Room - Part 1 of 2
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Have you ever wondered what went on in the place we refer to as “the upper room”? That location, that name, has always held a sort of mystique about it. The replacement of Judas by casting lots is about all chapter one of Acts records as to what was happening behind those closed doors.
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Conflict on the Campus—1952
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Back when I was a boy it was a fashion in the Adventist press to embed Bible studies in stories. Pacific Press badged theirs “Stories that Win.” And they did. Perhaps you remember The Marked Bible by Charles Lindsay Taylor, still in print in the millions of copies, or Frank Steunenberg’s Greater Love, about assassin-turned-Adventist Harry Orchard.
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Making Himself Equal to God
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The temptation the serpent confronted Eve with was to make herself equal to God (Gen 3: 5). The temptation that the pre-existent Christ confronted and rejected was to make himself equal to God (Phil. 2: 6). In the gospel According to John, Jesus explicitly accepts as accurate the accusation of making himself equal to God (5: 18). This affirmation is at the center of its theology.
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I Pledge Allegiance: A Prophetic Parable
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The Fallacy of Hierarchy
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Where will obliviousness about Christian leadership (and misleadership) take the Adventist Church?
These stories speak for themselves.
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The Sheep and the Goats
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This week the Kellogg West Conference Center located in Pomona, California, will host the 32nd annual Kinship Kampmeeting. The web site, Seventh-day Adventist Kinship, gives details about the gathering including a daily schedule, topics and presenters. It also posts this disclaimer.
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That Confusing Thing We Call Ourselves
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The word that we generally use to describe a gathering of Christians comes from kuriakē oikia—in Greek, “house of the Lord.” The first word of the phrase, kuriakē, through a series of linguistic evolutions whose intermediate you can spot in the Scottish “kirk”, eventually became the English “church”.
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