Month: April 2025
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Examining the SDA Fundamentals Through the Lens of the Grace – Part 3: Grace That Transforms, Christian Living, the Law, and the Sabbath
Today, I would like to reflect on two fundamental Seventh-day Adventist beliefs, 19 and 20, through the lens of grace. At their core, these two beliefs are about Christian living. Belief 19 talks about the Law of God, and belief 20 talks about the Sabbath. These two beliefs center around a vital question: If a…
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Examining the SDA Fundamentals Through the Lens of the Gospel, Part 2: What Did Jesus Mean When He Said, “It Is Finished”?
John 19:30 (NIV) When He had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. This weekend, Christians around the world pause to reflect on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. As part of that reflection, many turn to Jesus’ final words on the cross: “It…
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Examining the SDA Fundamentals Through the Lens of the Gospel Part 1. The Great Controversy, Growing in Christ, and The Remnant
Don: A few weeks ago I asked Kiran to look at the 28 fundamental beliefs of Adventism, and find how grace can be seen in each of these fundamentals, not because I’m trying to proselytize anyone to Adventism (although I think it’s been a very helpful thing for me) but because I wanted to see…
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Lamb of God or Scapegoat of Humanity?
It seems that we have to linger a bit on the death of Jesus. That sabbath day that he spent entirely in the grave, dead. I think for us as Christians, there is a special symbolism for this particular sabbath day in the Old Testament: Yom Kippur; the sabbath of sabbaths, (in Hebrew, Shabbat Shabbaton,…