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Category Archives: Adventist
The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day
I just picked up this new book — The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day — by Seventh-Day Adventist Sigve K. Tonstad. He’s on the Religion and Medicine faculty at Loma Linda University. I’m thinking about the title. I don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Christianity, Judaism
Tagged exodus from egypt, loma linda university, observing the sabbath, religion and medicine, sabbath keeping churches, sabbath morning, seventh day adventists
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The Time Of Trouble
I’ve found that I get the most exciting stories from the people with the least going on in their lives. You talk to homeless people and they’ll tell you about government satellites beaming subliminal messages into their brains. By contrast, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal
Tagged divine truth, government satellites, orthodox judaism, sam kinison, seventh day adventism, seventh day adventists
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The Lost Meaning Of The Seventh-Day
Cinema Paradiso is my favorite movie. “Six-year-old Salvatore, whose nickname is Toto, discovers his love for films early and spends every free moment at the local moviehouse — Cinema Paradiso, where he develops a friendship with the fatherly projectionist, Alfredo, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Loma Linda, Personal
Tagged cinema paradiso, free moment, moviehouse cinema, projection booth, projectionist, religion faculty
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Action Jackson
My parents and I left the Seventh-Day Adventist church in August 1980 (I’m talking practically, not bureaucratically). We moved to Auburn, California, where my dad started Good News Unlimited, a non-denominational evangelical Christian foundation aka the invisible church of Jesus … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal, PUC
Tagged desmond ford, elementary school kids, placer high school, rob stutzman, seventh day adventists, things of the spirit
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Jews And Arabs Share Common Ancestors
Twice this week, people have told me that Jews and Arabs both came from Chaldea and therefore share a bloodline. I say big deal. What matters is values not blood nor pagan origins, but the consequence of what was produced. … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Jews, Personal
Tagged chaldea, conservative christians, fake breasts, pagan origins, pagan rites, sdas, sexual purity, theological beliefs, world tomorrow
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Remembering Girls In Angwin, CA
One of the ways I classify places is whether or not I ever made it there. I only ever made it in LA, Sacramento, Orlando, Vancouver, Las Vegas and Big Sur (beside a cliff overlooking the ocean underneath a loving … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal, PUC, Sex
Tagged Facebook, fondling, holy sabbath, old acquaintance, pubic hair, smart mouth
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Seventh-Gay Adventists
That’s a great title for a movie. I was raised a Seventh-Day Adventist. There were no out homosexuals in the religious communities I grew up in (Avondale College and Pacific Union College). We would’ve dragged them behind a pack of … Continue reading
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Tagged avondale college, church summer camps, gay adventist, lgbt members, remnant church, seventh day adventists
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Why Doesn’t The Great Sin Of Pre-Marital Sex Get More Attention In Orthodox Life?
When I was growing up in Seventh-Day Adventist Christianity, the sin of fornication aka pre-marital sex received more attention than any other sin. It was the biggie. To do it, was to deny Christ and his love. I’ve never heard … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Christianity, Orthodoxy, Personal, Rabbis, Sex
Tagged Dennis Prager, flag football league, monogamous heterosexual marriage, orthodox judaism, orthodox rabbis, pre marital sex, saturday night fever, shabbos afternoon
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Lunch Returns Me To Childhood
I made a new friend over lunch today. He’s a lifelong Seventh-Day Adventist. Our lives have many parallels. Our fathers were SDA ministers who were ejected from church ministry for preaching heresy. I feel light-headed. I feel like I am … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Christianity, Judaism, Orthodoxy
Tagged avondale college, freedom fries, seventh day adventism, seventh day adventists, story of abraham, vegie burgers
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How A Psycho-Analytical Analysis Of Seventh-Day Adventism’s Prophet Put Money In My Bank Account
God works in amazing ways! Checking my email this morning, I found I had a $100 donation in my paypal account from a prestigious professor at Loma Linda University. I called a friend. "Honey, you don’t need to go to … Continue reading
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Tagged big time, exquisite feelings, fawn brodie, loma linda university, luke ford, paypal account, profound thoughts, ron numbers, sally hemings
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