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Beaten in the Year of the Advent — Facing Racial Injustice on Public Transport (Part 1) Written by:  February 5, 2021 This series will highlight the experiences of three African American Adventists who faced racial injustice in America while taking public transportation. Each of them reacted differently and got different results. Read Part 2 here. Jabez Pitt Campbell stepped up to the counter to purchase a train ticket to Philadelphia. It was the afternoon of Wednesday, March 26, 1843, and the 28-year-old Black pastor was travelling from his home in Providence, Rhode Island, to preach in t...

I just want to encourage everybody to not let fear become a greater problem than the Coronavirus, but trust God.

The Thrill of the Chase Written by:  December 31, 2020 In a significant percentage of all movies ever made there is an unstated, but definitely understood, compact between filmmaker and viewer. It is that everything will turn out all right in the end. In the Action/Adventure genre, for example, you have the hero(ine) – from James Bond to Indiana Jones – facing wild and dangerous obstacles, which consumes the majority of the running time. Yet they come out unscathed in the end. In RomComs ( Romantic Comedie s) the eventually-happy couple typically “meet cute,” then have some misunder...

4 Min Read Published on: 09-28-2020 The first half of the nineteenth century saw modern rationalism intensifying its attacks against the Christian faith. While winds from the French Revolution deified human reason, evolutionary biology regarded nature as its own creator. Deists portrayed God as someone who does not intervene in human affairs. For historical critics, the Bible was full of religious myths and inaccuracies; its prophecies merely a literary style without any bearing on the present. Postmillennialists suggested that the reign of God would be established on ear...

Want to print these devotionals or read them in PDF format? Purchase this entire Advent devotional, plus additional Bible studies and Bible reading guide with our Advent 2020 digital bundle. Sunday: Lying in a Feeding Trough The fullness of time had come. For thousands upon thousands of years, God’s people waited for the coming of the greater son of David, the Messiah-King of Israel. The promised Prince of Peace. And now, their prophets’ wildest, God-wrought dreams finally materialized as angel choirs announced, The King is here! Born this very day. In the Messiah’s arrival, we marvel ...