The Divine Aroma: Exploring God's...

Smell is a very powerful sense. It is certainly a brilliant gift from God. He created it for us so that we could get the most out of life.
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The Sabbath and the Rights of Nature:...

What does the Sabbath teach us about nature and creation stewardship? Is it simply a day to admire the handiworks of God, or is there a deeper lesson...
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Permission to Pray

What better prayer to re-examine than the Lord’s Prayer, the example given by Jesus,to see what prayer can be for both God and us. These five simple...
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Filtering Reality

We like to think that we perceive reality as it actually is when, in fact, we only perceive our version of reality. Because of our filters, we only...
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Baptized Twice on the Same Day

Because we inevitably experience spiritual reverses, we can, in memory, again reenact that baptismal sequence by dying to the selfish core that made...
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Advent Angel

I know what you’re thinking / that I flew here from heaven, / flitting my way through the galaxies, / wings aglow against dark matter.
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To Hear the Angels Sing

"The angels will never sing for you if you just stay in the house doing busy things. Their songs are sung for those who will run through the wind...
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Creating An Adventist Catechism

Kevin R. McCarty presents a better way of understanding baptismal preparation.  
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You Forgot We Are Seeds

The poet Dinos Christianopoulos writes, “What didn’t you do to bury me / but you forgot that I was a seed.” —Sabbath school commentary for discussion...
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Linn Tonstad on Christian...

Watch Tonstad, a graduate of La Sierra University, present "Vulnerabilities, Not Vulnerability: Considering Some Differences.”
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