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Why Is Money So Hard to Talk About at Church?
On most Sabbaths, money comes up once, when the offering plate goes by. Meanwhile the family two rows back may be choosing between rent and a car repair, and...
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7 Ways to Show Up When Someone at Church Is Grieving
The funeral ends, the casseroles stop, and a few weeks later the grieving person walks back into church alone. That is often when the...
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A Faith That Can Survive Doubt
Doubt arrives in different ways. A prayer goes unanswered for years, or a teaching that once felt solid starts to wobble. Many Adventists quietly...
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10 Questions You Are Allowed to Ask in Sabbath School
Many Adventists grew up sensing that certain questions were off limits in Sabbath School. Ask the wrong one and the room goes quiet, or...
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Keeping Sabbath When You Work Shifts
The new schedule comes out, and there it is again: a Friday night shift, then Sabbath morning on the ward. Nurses, paramedics, caregivers, security...
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Things Adventists Should Focus on That Aren’t Fear-Driven
Fear can feel like faithfulness. Many Adventists grew up with charts of end-time events, warnings about the mark of the beast and a quiet...
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10 Reasons Adventist Pastors Quit
Most members never see the quiet kitchen-table moment when a pastor decides to leave. These are pressures pastors commonly describe, shared with love for...
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Are You a Homeless Adventist?
Not on paper. Not in doctrine. Just in daily life.
You still believe the message, and you have no plans to leave. But somewhere along...
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Can an Adventist Be Fully Honest About Church History and Still Belong?
Some of us were handed a church history with the awkward pages quietly torn out.
For a while after 1844, the believers who became our...
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The Church We Could Build If We Started With the People Who Feel Left Out
Most Adventist churches were designed by people who never had to wonder whether they belonged.
Think about who sits near the back, or quietly stopped...
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What Happens When You Grow Up in a Community That Believes in a Better World
Adventist kids learn early that the story is going to end well.
We heard it before we could explain it. Jesus is coming back, and...