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The Modern State of Israel: An Adventist Interpretation
?pokalupto - Dom 22 Out 2023 01:42:23 EDT - 5
The modern, liberal democratic Jewish nation state of Israel does not resume the covenantal status God established with the ancient Davidic dynasty of the theocratic United Monarchy of Israel for three reasons:1. Israel’s post exilic, geo...
How to Use Digital Bibles
?pokalupto - Seg 29 Mai 2023 06:35:55 EDT - 5
The Word of God has been recorded in a variety of media: tablets (Exodus 32:1516), scrolls (Deuteronomy 17:18), papyrus sheets (2 John 12), and, last but not least, human memory (Psalm 119:11). The codex—pages made from sheets that have b...
What Bible Should I Read?
?pokalupto - Sex 19 Mai 2023 01:35:47 EDT - 5
Short answer: Any Bible that you read is the right Bible for you to read.All Bibles—regardless of which translation or what supplementary notes—convey the written Word of God. The Gospel is a translated message from its inception (Acts ...
How to Read the Whole Bible for the First Time
?pokalupto - Seg 15 Mai 2023 01:35:48 EDT - 5
The Bible can be intimidating if you've never read something like it before. It's very long, and some of its texts are more easily understood—or misunderstood!—than others.It's become a cliché that many who attempt to read the Bible st...
Annual Observances for Seventh-day Adventists
?pokalupto - Dom 10 Jul 2022 19:34:16 EDT - 89
In Seventh day Adventism, some families and communities feel called to observe something like a festal or liturgical year to rehearse the story of salvation rather than enjoy merely secular holidays or take the extreme position of observing...
My Associationalist Manifesto
?pokalupto - Seg 08 Nov 2021 19:33:34 EST - 6
People sometimes ask me how I identify politically. In recent years I haven't had a ready answer, but I think that now I am prepared to take on at least one political label. I am an associationalist.What I mean by that is I think would be b...
Objection and Cooperation: An Adventist Ethic for Responsible Religious Liberty
?pokalupto - Dom 26 Set 2021 15:49:40 EDT - 5
In his opening remarks of an episode on conscience and COVID 19 vaccination, one of the Quick to Listen podcast hosts talked about how during World War II "there were still obligations put on people who cited their conscience." While exempt...
Know Their Lane
?pokalupto - Dom 26 Set 2021 15:49:40 EDT - 13
Here's a fact most pastors won't tell you: We can be doing amazing things for God in one area of our ministry and wandering in the wilderness when it comes to another. That is true for all church leaders, including myself.It was true of Pet...
A Different Kind of Beast: Evaluating America in View of the Kingdom of God
?pokalupto - Dom 26 Set 2021 15:49:40 EDT - 6
September 11 happened for me on September 12, 2001. I had taken a year off from college to serve as a volunteer youth pastor in Melbourne, Australia, so, in my time zone, the attacks occurred during the late night hours of Tuesday, the 11th...
Pandemic Worship and Religious Liberty
?pokalupto - Dom 21 Fev 2021 19:33:17 EST - 50
The question of pandemic worship and religious liberty has arrived in my city—it's exurbs, to be precise. GraceLife Church of Edmonton in Parkland County, just outside of Edmonton, has been practising civil disobedience of Alberta's 15% o...
From Fear to Love
?pokalupto - Sáb 14 Nov 2020 19:33:20 EST - 20
1.Fear is a powerful but short term motivator that responds to urgent stimuli. Love (in distinction to infatuation) is a long term motivatorthat is developed by choices to acquire habits.2.Seventh day Adventists see in Scripture a cosmic co...
Drummed out of Church? Evaluating Music for Adventist Worship
?pokalupto - Sáb 19 Set 2020 01:30:33 EDT - 12
Drums are acceptable in worship as long as they don’t play certain rhythms.Drums may not be seen in worship but may be played as part of a pre recorded accompaniment track.Drums arranged as a drum kit may not be played in church, but trad...
Beliefs and Reality
?pokalupto - Dom 22 Mar 2020 21:33:53 EDT - 19
This coronavirus is a destroyer of American ideological worlds.Single payer promoter? Europe is doing as bad, if not worse than, China.Civil libertarian? Here's a existential threat that is (1) not a war but (2) can't be confronted without ...
Quick and Dirty Guide to Independent Adventist Journalism
?pokalupto - Dom 01 Mar 2020 03:30:49 EST - 15
It can be wild online world in independent, Adventist journalism. If a fellow Adventist forwards you an article, you may not be sure whether you can trust the source.IntroductionWhile this guide will not tell you who to trust, it will tell ...
Visit To A Mosque
?pokalupto - Sex 13 Dez 2019 06:32:57 EST - 15
Today I visited the Islamic Society of Michiana's mosque in South Bend, Indiana for Friday prayers. I was required to go for a class in world religions and, for some time, had planned to visit on this particular Friday . Given the recent Fo...
Top 5 Reasons Why The 2015 General Conference Was More Progressive Than You Thought
?pokalupto - Sex 13 Dez 2019 06:32:56 EST - 22
Okay, so they voted down allowing divisions to decide whether to ordain women. But that wasn't all that happened in San Antonio. Here's five progressive changes the delegates voted through.No To Eternal Subordination It was stated from the ...
Tolerance or Love?
?pokalupto - Sex 13 Dez 2019 06:32:56 EST - 17
On Canada Day, my family set out on a rainy morning along with other like minded Fort McMurrians to celebrate the 145th anniversary of this great nation. Standing curbside with my two year old in my arms, I encouraged him to enthusiasticall...
Time, Loyalty, and the Exclusion of Other Options
?pokalupto - Sex 13 Dez 2019 06:32:56 EST - 28
One of my acquaintances recently remarked that she is partisan to the point where she cannot acknowledge any good done on the part of the current Canadian government. But their recent proposal to force cable companies to unbundle their chan...
Testimony
?pokalupto - Sex 13 Dez 2019 06:32:56 EST - 48
According to Wikipedia, spoken word poetry began in the early nineties in New York city. I first heard it in the early 2000s on CBC Radio 1. And now, in the early 2010s, it has made an impact on the old fashioned testimony service.The follo...
Sexual Freedom?
?pokalupto - Sex 13 Dez 2019 06:32:56 EST - 60
Anyone who has seen two children fighting over a single object in a room full of other equally fun toys can appreciate what philosopher René Girard was getting at when he described the human predicament as "mimetic desire"—we do not want...
Sabbath in the Pastor's Schedule
?pokalupto - Sex 13 Dez 2019 06:32:56 EST - 17
The following is a summary of the devotional I presented at the Fort McMurray Christian Ministerial Association on February 7, 2012.God saw all that he had madeand it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.Th...
Review: Adventist Women + Equality = Unity
?pokalupto - Sex 13 Dez 2019 06:32:56 EST - 22
Meet Pastor Brenda Billingy from Spectrum | Adventist Forum on Vimeo.Spectrum is rolling out a new video series documenting stories of Adventist pastors who have been ordained—pastors who happen to be women. I've discussed the women's ord...
Open Letter to Mike Allen, MLA Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo
?pokalupto - Sex 13 Dez 2019 06:32:56 EST - 18
Highway 63 is the most direct and important land link between Fort McMurray and Edmonton Alberta, a five hour trip, if you stick to the speed limit. Many don't, and compound the problem by passing dangerously on the two lane, undivided high...
On "A Year Without God"
?pokalupto - Sex 13 Dez 2019 06:32:56 EST - 14
In our reality TV generation there is class of writers who set out to experience for you that which you can or will not for yourself. Tim Ferriss tries out life hacks, so you won't have to do self improvement the hard way. A. J. Jacobs, the...
New Blog: Memory, Meaning & Faith
?pokalupto - Sex 13 Dez 2019 06:32:56 EST - 23
Where has Dave been since January?Thanks for asking! I've been working on a new blog project with some of my seminary professors. It's called Memory, Meaning & Faith, and on it we'll be discussing all things related to theology and hist...