PAX ET SECURITAS, ‘Peace and security.’ PAX ROMANA, ‘Roman Peace.’ These were Rome’s promises. But the road between Capua and Rome seemed anything but peaceful that day in 71 B.C. as 6,000 dead and dying men lined the 120-mile span, the last prisoners of Spartacus’ slave revolt.[1] About every hundred feet, one would have seen a rebel grotesquely c
CAESAR AUGUSTUS DIVI PATER PATRIAE, “Caesar Augustus the divine, father of the country.”[1] Thus read the denarius that Jesus had asked for and examined in His hand. He knew that Caesar was not the first earthly ruler to claim divinity. One recalls the haughty decrees of Nebuchadnezzar and Darius during the Babylonian and Medo-Persian empires, resp
The World Health Organization claims that, over a billion people in the world or one in every seven persons, experience some kind of disability. The term disability, is a disadvantage or deficiency especially a physical or mental impairment that prevents or restricts normal achievement, says the American Heritage dictionary. These individuals with
Bands for Christian Service There are many lines in which the youth can find opportunity for helpful effort. As they organize into bands for Christian service, their co-operation will prove an assistance and encouragement. Parents and teachers, by taking an interest in the work of the young people, will be able to give them the benefit of their own
In his infinite mercy and love God has given us light from his word, and Christ says to us, “Freely ye have received, freely give.” Let the light God has given you shine forth to those in darkness. As you do this, heavenly angels will be beside you, helping you win souls for Christ. The Master is saying to us: “Come to me. Right counsel and sound j
"If we distance ourselves and our point of view, a culture will always look peculiar to us." — Shahar Fisher We are nearly ready to begin reimagining Adventism. So far, we have seen three very important points that call us to reimagine our evangelistic approach. The first is that the secular mind is immersed in absurdity—an experience most people o
“Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” How sad it is that Jesus has to stretch out his hands pleading with his people to come unto him, and they refuse to hear, refuse to believe, refuse to receive the comfort of the fulness that God designed should be theirs. Jesus wept over the impenitent city of Jerusalem, and cried with brokenness o
“Fundamentalists live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.” — Amos Oz The state of absurdity (the tension between meaninglessness and meaning) is a very real experience that must be understood and appreciated by Adventists if we wish to develop a meaningful approach to evangelism in the secular spher
Every one should consider the solemn question, What is my life toward God and my fellow-men? No man liveth unto himself. No life is simply neutral in its results. The enemy often blinds the mind in regard to the importance of life; but it is of vast importance, and we cannot cast off our responsibilities without imperiling our eternal interests. We
Growing Young isn’t about changing youth ministry. It’s about changing church culture. — Brad Griffin, Fuller Youth Institute associate director With the average age of an attending Seventh-day Adventist Church member growing older as the years go by, how do churches start to grow young? Last year three Washington Conference churches went on a jour
