Browsing articles from "August, 2010"
Aug
21
2010

Are You Posting Evil Thoughts?

Young man surfing the Internet on a laptop.

“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts…” – Matthew 15:19 A brief feature on the news the other day caught my attention. A comment posted by a school administrator on her own Facebook wall, which she thought was set on “private” but was actually public, ended up not only embarrassing her, but due to the community outrage, forced her to resign from her position. This by no means is an isolated incident. For as [...]

Aug
16
2010

ANN: Teach Substance and Involve Youth

Adventist News Network recently featured a commentary by Lisa Rasmussen sharing her views on the issue of keeping youth not only in the church, but satisfying their spiritual needs and getting them involved. Many Seventh-day Adventists are concerned with keeping youth involved in church. I was in a unique position to observe this at the church’s recent General Conference Session — I operated the exhibit booth for the General Conference’s Office of Assessment and Program [...]

Aug
2
2010

What happens when we die?

Woman at a graveyard.

Guest contributor, Nilopher, shares the Biblical answer to the question: “What happens when we die?” To understand what happens when we die, we have to understand what the soul is. “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” ~ Genesis 2:7 The scriptures tell us that the soul is not something we have inside our bodies. [...]