Propaganda, Myths, and Witnessing

The Situation:
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Ten Commandments for Adventist...

1. Always speak the truth in love. Truth welcomes fearless examination. Love is the one motivation that matters, the only legacy that lasts. While...
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I Accepted Timothy Keller’s Invitation...

Timothy Keller is the founder and pastor of something as rare as a Manhattan Presbyterian church that draws more than five thousand people to its...
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In Landmark Sermon, Chris Oberg...

In a watershed sermon on gender and sexuality, La Sierra University Church Senior Pastor Chris Oberg explored reproductive discontinuity and gender...
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Drowned They Still Speak

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is...
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The Problem of Suffering Is Inherent in...

I have long been fascinated by Thomas Hardy’s diatribe against fate, Hap. If but some vengeful god would call to me  From up the sky, and laugh: "...
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Where Love Is, God Is

I came across a short story by Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. It is about Martin Avdéiteh, a cobbler. As he aged, Martin suffered greatly in this...
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Jesus as Guest: Hospitality in the...

The Gospel accounts of Jesus’ ministry are filled with stories of hospitality — Jesus entertained and Jesus entertaining. In the Gospel of John, our...
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Second Installment in Adventist LGBT+...

Daneen Akers and Stephen Eyer released the second installment today in their ten-part series of short documentaries titled “Outspoken.” The films...
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Book Review: Village Atheists

Neither the village idiot nor the village atheist escaped being socially marginalized in nineteenth-century America. Both distinct minorities, both...
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