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Published on: 03-04-2021
On February 25, the North American Division (NAD) Executive Committee met to vote on a quinquennial strategic focus and approve an April 29 business meeting to hold elections for NAD vice president, department directors, and associate directors.
NAD president G. Alexander Bryant chaired the meeting and explained the proposed strategic focus. During the virtual Zoom meeting, NAD secretary Kyoshin Ahn also presented a statement from a writing committee of executive committee members, which, according to the statement’s preamble, “addresses issues specific to the NAD, and contextualizes the General Conference’s ‘One Humanity’ document into the North American setting.”
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From their earliest years Seventh-day Adventists, today a worldwide movement with more than 21 million members, have been interested in religious liberty issues. This interest stems from the importance of the topic in general, and from two other reasons in particular. First, as their name suggests, they keep the seventh-day Sabbath, Saturday, a practice that at times has caused members legal trouble, such as when strict Sunday law legislation led to fines, or even jail time. Second, the Seventh-day Adventist understanding of last-day events anticipates a time of global religious persecution, with the United States as, unfortunately, the main engine of that persecution.
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The only recorded encounter of Jesus with Greeks was shortly before His crucifixion. As John 12:20, 21 tells us, some Greeks asked through Philip to see Jesus. We are not told why or what they asked Him, but verses 23-25 says, “Jesus replied, ‘The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds” (NIV)
1 and added in verses 31, 32: “Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself” (NIV). Commenting in verse 33, John said, “He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die” (NIV), the death on the cross.
Adventist Books of 2020
December 31, 2020
This was a tough year in publishing with the world homebound and authors and publishers only able to market new books through online avenues. Nevertheless, books on a wide range of topics continued making their way into the hands of readers. From riveting autobiographies to vegan cooking, from theology to understanding Adventism, here are 20 books from Adventist authors that we read in 2020.
(The following titles are in order of publication date.)
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This anthology includes scholarly papers presented at the 3
rd International Symposium organized by the Institute of Adventist Studies of Friedensau Adventist University in Germany that analyze the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in Europe from a variety of angles: historical, missiological, theological, and socio-political. “The essays provoked, puzzled, and inspired me addressing questions I will likely need to confront at some point in my own culture as the United States experie