What are we to make of a writer who advised women to shorten their dresses eight inches in a world in which many wear them too short already, or who counseled that Adventist schools should teach girls to harness and drive a horse when most of them will never need that information? Part of the problem is ...]]> http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/2011/12/06/reading-ellen-white-in-the-21st-century/feed/ 0 http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/2011/10/16/the-morning-watch-bible-readings-for-youth/ http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/2011/10/16/the-morning-watch-bible-readings-for-youth/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:07:54 +0000 Jacquelyn http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/?p=909 In 2007, for the Adventist Youth Ministries Centennial Celebration, the General Conference reprinted The Morning Watch from 1907. The Morning Watch is a Bible reading plan for youth’s morning devotional. The following is transcribed from the introduction page:

The essentials of Christian growth are three, expressed in these words of the Bible: first, “Search the Scriptures,”—FOOD; second, “Pray without ceasing”—BREATH; third, “Go, work to-day in my vineyard,”—EXERCISE. Each of the three is as essential in the spiritual as in the physical life. This “cycle ...]]> http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/2011/10/16/the-morning-watch-bible-readings-for-youth/feed/ 0 http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/2011/09/16/history-of-the-sabbath/ http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/2011/09/16/history-of-the-sabbath/#comments Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:53:50 +0000 Jacquelyn http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/?p=857 This Sabbath evening I began reading History of the Sabbath by J.N. Andrews, a facsimile reproduction of the 1887 third edition. It is the first in a group of Sabbath-related books I picked up earlier this week at the Potomac Adventist Book Center for a mixture of pleasure reading and research material.

Thus far, I have only managed to read the Preface and already I am amazed at the clarity, candor, and depth. I have decided to share with you the Preface and to reproduce it exactly as it appeared in the 1887 3rd Edition.

At the end of ...]]> http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/2011/09/16/history-of-the-sabbath/feed/ 0 http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/2011/06/28/the-forbidden-book-the-history-of-the-english-bible/ http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/2011/06/28/the-forbidden-book-the-history-of-the-english-bible/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:06:49 +0000 Jacquelyn http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/?p=819 Description:Hosted by Dr. Craig Lampe, this one-hour documentary takes you on a fascinating journey through time. Discover how the Bible was preserved through the 1,000 year period of the Dark and Middle Ages, when possession of scripture in any language other than Latin meant certain death at the hands of the organized church. Learn more about John Wycliff, the Oxford professor who translated the New Testament into English; Erasmus, the scholar that published a Greek-Latin Parallel New Testament more true to the original languages than the Latin Vulgate; William Tyndale, who risked everything to translate and publish the Bible in ...]]> http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/2011/06/28/the-forbidden-book-the-history-of-the-english-bible/feed/ 0 http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/2011/04/03/the-seventh-day/ http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/2011/04/03/the-seventh-day/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:16:07 +0000 Jacquelyn http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/?p=770 What is the Sabbath? Host Hal Holbrook takes you on an eye-opening journey through history to explore the seventh-day Sabbath. Discover how Sunday observance eventually trumped Saturday Sabbath-keeping in the early church, why this controversy is barely known, and the amazing unknown history behind this divine day!

Click on the links provided below to watch this 5-part documentary online.

Part one is broken into 10 sections.

1. Origins – Views ...]]> http://www.realtimebelievers.com/blogs/2011/04/03/the-seventh-day/feed/ 0