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Resetting your spiritual default

January 8, 2016 Floyd Sayler

Human beings are creatures of habit. We generally have an aversion to changing our habits of thinking and how we live our lives.

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In Devotional Tags spirituality, adventist, relationship, jusus, christian

Support ADvindicate's continuation

January 1, 2016 Shane Hilde

What a successful year ADvindicate.com had in 2015! Over 390,000 unique visitors stopped by our site, so compared to the 155,000 visitors in 2014.

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In News Tags fundraise, money, advindicate

An epiphany

January 1, 2016 Gery P. Friesen

Don’t you love it when you’re reading something or looking at something you’ve seen many times and suddenly you see something new!

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In Devotional Tags adventist

An end in itself

January 1, 2016 Shanley Lutchman

I’ve been carrying a pocketknife since I was 14. Not as a weapon, but as a useful tool that comes in handy in diverse circumstances in life—opening cans, cutting packaging, minor electrical work, loosening screws, cutting food and so on.

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In Devotional Tags adventist, advindicate

Satan's masterpiece of deception

December 31, 2015 Floyd Sayler

In this article we will be focusing on how the final scenes will come about and how Sabbath keepers will be brought onto the world stage.

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In Current Events Tags satan, plan, adventist, advindicate

The squeaky wheel gets the grease

December 22, 2015 Omar Miranda

I had had a problem with one of the wheels on my bike being wobbly, and I didn’t know how to fix it.

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In Devotional Tags squeaky, wheel, jesus, adventist, god, attention

Conversion without drama

December 11, 2015 Kevin Paulson

Attention and controversy has swirled of late around the conversion narrative told by a prominent candidate in the current U.S. presidential campaign.

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In Commentary Tags conversion, adventist, drama

Sunday law: beginning a chain reaction

December 11, 2015 Floyd Sayler

As Jesus was approaching the fearful time of His betrayal and crucifixion, He desperately tried to forewarn His disciples of the coming crisis. 

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For he is a prophet

December 11, 2015 Francis Owusu-Banahene

The book of Genesis gives a wonderful lesson about our reactions toward a prophet of God when they err.

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In Commentary Tags prophet, abraham, judge, failure

Selfies

December 3, 2015 Bob Blum

I have a fallen nature and my first thoughts and actions are to defend and indulge self, to make life as easy as possible to live and enjoy. I have no need for God or, for that matter, anyone else, unless He or they can benefit me in my self-centeredness. 

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In Devotional Tags repentance, forgiveness, Jesus, god, adventist, conversion

GLOW missionaries wanted

December 3, 2015 Joseph Manzanares

Now Super Bowl 50 is set to take place in San Francisco Feb. 7, 2016. In anticipation, Bay Area church members have been gearing up for a week long event leading up to the big game.

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In Current Events Tags glow, tracts, missionary, super bowl

The great test

November 26, 2015 Shanley Lutchman

What if cleaning your shoes on Sabbath morning was the great test by which your eternal destiny was decided? I’m not saying that it will be. But, what if it was?

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In Opinion Tags sabbath, great test, revelation, end time

Be God's balloon!

November 26, 2015 Omar Miranda

Several years ago my children went to a party that had a clown who made balloon art. Now, I’m sure that no one can go to college and take classes in balloon art, but this guy had everybody—even the adults—mesmerized with the different things he could make using balloons.

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In Devotional Tags adventist, balloons, gods

Adventists on the Titanic

November 26, 2015 Kevin Paulson

A recent article in a prominent church publication invites a serious misunderstanding of the faith-and-works issue as Scripture presents it.

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In Current Events Tags adventist, titanic

Finding the coin

November 19, 2015 Ken Mindoro

When studying familiar passages such as the parables of Luke 15--the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the prodigal son--we risk falling into the trap of studying the Bible while already prejudiced to the conclusions drawn from the reading. 

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In Devotional Tags parables, coin, lost sheep, adventist

Author of 'The Omega Rebellion' Rick Howard dies

November 15, 2015 Danny Strever

On November 3, 2015 Pastor Rick Howard passed to his rest at 6:00 a.m. He was the author of "The Omega Rebellion" and "Meet It!"

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In News Tags rick howard, memorial

Approaching another Minneapolis

November 15, 2015 Floyd Sayler

When we read of what might have been experienced at the Minneapolis Conference in 1888 and during the years immediately following, we sense what a tragic loss it was to the church.

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In Opinion Tags minneapolis, 1888, adventist, at jones

PUC President responds to Ryan Bell

November 9, 2015 Heather J. Knight

In terms of the decision to disinvite you to campus, it was a decision that really did require moral courage and wisdom as I was well aware of how this decision would be perverted by some to create a negative firestorm on Social Media, for example.

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In Current Events Tags puc, ryan bell, pastor, atheist, adventist

Parent to Dr. Knight: thanks for disinviting Bell

November 8, 2015 Gigi Beckham

Why, I wonder, would a professedly Christian professor choose to expose his students to the thoughts and teachings of a fool?

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In Current Events Tags ryan bell, puc, heather knight, atheist

Under the most intense scrutiny

November 6, 2015 Kody Kostenko

I never dreamed I’d see the day when a Seventh-day Adventist would be a front-running presidential candidate.

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In Current Events Tags adventist, ben carson, church
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