Thursday, August 30, 2012
Reviewing the Adventist Review
August 16, 2012
Vol. 189, No.23
http://www.adventistreview.org/index.php?issue=2012-1523
NOTE TO READERS:
WORLD NEWS AND PERSPECTIVES is an important section of each magazine. I don’t usually report on its contents because it is available at the online address I provide with every review.
GENERAL COMMENTS
After I read this issue, it was the words that stuck in my mind. What follows are a sampling of phrases that are quintessentially Adventist.
…affirming the gay Adventists who choose to live celibate lives...
This attitude damages the idea of organ music...
…the national anthem was sung by someone who changed it to be more ‘modern.’
It is sobering to think…that we might often put food ahead of people.
He answers prayers our prayers in ways we may not see.
Do what is right because it is right, and leave the consequences with the Lord.
We voted on the right side of history.
Once you work here, you’re never the same.
Receiving voluntary donations, the lawsuit says, is often the ‘first step’ in someone’s interactions...
The Aeolians lifted our souls and the roof...
Jesus delights in putting us in situations in which He’s the only answer.
I’ve discovered that when I choose to praise God anyway, He moves.
The chief weapon in Jesus’ arsenal is verbal and nonverbal communication.
Unfortunately, how naive, even superstitious, such a belief would seem to those who dismiss the universal flood for the same reason they do a literal six-day creation of life on earth...
Contemplating the cross draws us into an intimate relationship with Jesus...
And that’s were too many believers are spending their time...
But to prevent a public scandal, they made arrangement to send me to another city...
Michele Bachmann could find herself beside Barak Obama. You might be surprised to be kneeling between Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner...
How times have changed. No longer do our guardian angels stand waiting at the doors of movie theaters. Now they sit right there with us, munching popcorn.
But during that short “ordeal,” a thought occurred to me. “Perhaps I love my phone too much.
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Reviewing the Adventist Review
August 9, 2012
Vol. 189, No.22
http://www.adventistreview.org/index.php?issue=2012-1522
NOTE TO READERS:
WORLD NEWS AND PERSPECTIVES is an important section of each magazine. I don’t usually report on its contents because it is available at the online address I provide with every review.
GENERAL COMMENTS
This is a special ASI edition of the Review. And in the best tradition of this volunteer organization, it provides ASI treats for everyone including a charming piece by Dixil Rodriguez, RETURN TO SENDER. If you like sermonizing, there are two: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LOST by Shawn Boonstra and RE-IMAGINING THE LOST by Anthony Kent.
My favorite article is CLOSER TO THE SOURCE, the entrepreneurial story of One Degree Organic Foods. Their packaging allows the purchaser to FoodsScan the QR code and…not only see all the ingredients pictured, but you can also click through to see short 20-to 30-second videos of the specific farm where the ingredient grew, interviews with the farmer, and photos of processing methods. That’s a sample of the ingenuity and talent that has made the men and women of ASI world famous. It a definite MUST READ.
Enjoy the cover-to-cover experience of the issue by ignoring the bottom of page 28. It’s an advertisement for the book, Homosexuality, Marriage, and the Church, published by Andrews University Press. Homophobia should be anathema to informed Christians. The more "gently and lovingly" presented by Christian sources, the greater the harm.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
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