Shifting the Sabbath School lesson’s focus on power “out there” to the power that is always at work in and among us opens up different questions for...
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Conceived out of wedlock, perhaps Jesus’s earliest memories were of crossborder flight or at least his parents’ stories about it. Sabbath school...
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Our mission to our neighbors is grounded in the reality that all of us live together in God’s neighborhood. We are as likely to discover God in a...
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The mission and purpose of the church is to be something more than a spoken message. It is to embody (not just proclaim) the Revelation 7 vision of “...
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In light of the Adult Bible Study Guide’s focus on mission, the author explores the book of Proverbs for a subtle missionary perspective amidst its...
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This week’s Sabbath School lesson on Abraham’s bargaining with God as a model for mission, read alongside Tonstad’s Sense and Non-Sense, opens up...
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Church is primarily a loving community where people can find help and wholeness. One thing I now know, more than ever, is that being a nurturing,...
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With the Sabbath School quarterly’s theme of mission in mind, PhD candidate Geoffrey Nelson-Blake discusses mission as dialoguing about alternative...
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Little Richard’s life was a monumental irony: the most famous Seventh-day Adventist ever was also the architect—some would say inventor—of rock ‘n’...
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Interpreting Matthew’s “great commission” is central to the Adventist mission, but we should be cautious of “easy” readings. Understanding mission as...
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