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Stand Down January 28, 2021 In our politics recently there has been much talk of unity. Joe Biden, the newly installed Democratic president, stated that his mission is to unify the country after a level of divisiveness we as a nation have never seen before.[1] Republicans too have made their own calls for unity, believing that to litigate the horrors of the recent past would only further divide our country. I would never call on our government to use the Bible as an example for how to achieve unity as I do not believe that should be the role of the Bible and religion in our politics. But the Bible can be uniquely instructive here. The political divisiveness of our current moment is mirrored in the Christian church at large in America, and by extension the Adventist Church itself. In this very forum we debated the usefulness of the Trump administration for Christians. Trump courted Evangelical Christians explicitly, and they responded in record numbers. He was ....
On Being Vulnerable December 24, 2020 I love a good turn of phrase. This being the case, Paul’s words to the Philippians, chapter 2, verses 5-7 (ESV) strike a chord with me. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. I have always loved the idea of Jesus being so powerful that he did not think of “equality with God” as “a thing to be grasped.” Equality with God is a concept that I cannot explain nor fully comprehend and for Jesus it was His modus operandi. Yet He gave up all that power, emptying Himself and becoming just like us, “born in the likeness of men.” ....