With the completion of day one of the LEAD (Leadership Education And Development) Conference, which is dealing with cross-cultural communications, leaders of our church left the General Conference headquarters with smiles. They took a long and often humorous look at the issues that arise when people from different cultures try to communicate. They
For more than a week, leaders from every division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have been meeting at the world headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. These meetings set the groundwork for the General Conference’s Annual Council, which runs from October 9-14. This year’s Annual Council is of significant importance, as it is during this time
Luke 12:38-42 is a story about “a woman named Martha.” In only four verses she is mentioned by name four times, receives Jesus into her home, and engages Jesus in a dialogue. Mary, her sister, is a mute character whose role in the story is that of a foil. We could say that Martha is the main character, Jesus is a prominent secondary character, and
With the advent of globalization[1] coupled with multimedia resources and a plethora of varying belief systems and methods of establishing those creeds, how should we make sense of and interact with the divergent movements in society? Battle lines are drawn, opposing factions are equipped with the paraphernalia of ideologies and arms, and so-called
“Please bless great-grandmama, mama, and daddy. Help us to have a good night’s sleep—oh, yeah, God, please bless and protect all those people in Syria and Iraq that are being killed and terrorized, and please bless and be with those ISIS people. You know that they are so angry because they don’t know and love You. AMEN!” I kissed my 8-year-old son,
Have you ever begged for something? Have you ever begged God for something—for yourself or a loved one? When I read the above Bible story recently, the word “begged” stood out to me. Trying to think of what it means to beg, I scrambled through my life memories for instances of “begging.” I recalled pleading with my mom to let me go to the playgroun
