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I just returned from a church leadership summit in South Africa. More than three hundred leaders gathered from nations in southern Africa and the Indian Ocean. I was blessed beyond measure as I listened to reports and testimonies. The spiritual vitality and enthusiasm at these meetings seems sadly…
I have recently found myself giving renewed thought to what Heaven must be like. I challenged myself to think of things that I had not focused on before. It’s easy to reflect upon spending time with Jesus, your guardian angel, saints from the Bible, and reuniting with loved ones who had passed away.…
When Jesus met with one ostracized woman at Jacob’s well outside of Sychar, He realized something that many of us miss: the impact of a single life that has been transformed by the power of God. One meeting with Jesus transformed that Samaritan woman’s heart. She went back into her town and boldly…
During a United States presidential debate in 1980 with then-president Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan asked the impactful question to the American viewing audience, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” That query, along with other factors, sealed Reagan’s eventual election.
As…
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Engaging Adventist Millennials: A church that embraces relationships
Fortune 500 companies to media firms to major faith communities are asking this question with interest: “What does it take to engage with the Millennial generation?”1 The North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church2 recently commissioned…
Spiritual Intimacy: The Challenge and Delight
Three months into our marriage, Bernie and I were having worship together. We were quietly reading the same passage of Scripture, preparing to share our insights and ideas. I immersed myself in the verses, trying to experience what it would be like to be there with Jesus in that moment. I was breathing…
Praying the Psalms
Recently, I was in a faculty meeting discussing the meaning of prayer in contemporary liturgy. It did not take long before complaints were expressed about the length and, particularly, the language of liturgical prayers. The prevailing impression was that public prayers tended to be too long and saturated…