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Tag Archives: seventh day adventists
One man’s vegetarian journey from Seventh-Day Adventism to Orthodox Judaism
I was scheduled to speak at Sinai Temple at 2pm Sunday. Here’s more info. I arrive at Sinai Temple at 1:45 and the security guard says nothing is scheduled for that afternoon. Six people show up for my talk. The … Continue reading
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Tagged benefits of vegetarianism, john bradshaw, orthodox judaism, seventh day adventism, seventh day adventists, Sinai Temple
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Rav Yosef Kanefsky Undergoes Angioplasty
An email from BnaiDavid.com: “For those of you who may not have been in Shul over Succot, we are sending this e-mail to let you know that Rabbi Kanefsky underwent an angioplasty late Wednesday afternoon, shortly before Yom Tov. He … Continue reading
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Tagged congestive heart failure, e mail, edge capability, heart ailments, open heart surgery, seventh day adventists, shul, strict vegetarian diet, Succot, wednesday afternoon, well wishes
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High School Game Of The Week
I was just watching ESPN and it advertised that on Friday night at 7pm PST, it will show this high school football game between the Grant Pacers and the Folsom Bulldogs. I went to the redneck Placer High School (class … Continue reading
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Tagged high school football, placer high school, seventh day adventist, seventh day adventists, social achievement, welfare dependency
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The Day My Doctor Died
My family has been lucky enough to have been adopted many times over our lives. It was 1977 that I first remember hearing the name “Zane Kime.” He was a medical doctor in California who was researching the danger of … Continue reading
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Tagged cheese sandwich, freshman girl, healthy vegetarian diet, herschel walker, penryn california, seventh day adventists
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What’s The Difference Between The Jewish Sabbath And The Christian Sabbath?
Seventh-Day Adventists, Seventh-Day Baptists and Jews observe the Sabbath. What are the differences in how they observe the Sabbath? As someone who was raised a Seventh-Day Adventist but converted to Judaism in 1993, I have some ideas. The most obvious … Continue reading
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Tagged christian audience, christian sabbath, jewish sabbath, protestant reformers, rape incest, seventh day adventist, seventh day adventists, seventh day baptists
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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
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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
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Tagged divine truth, government satellites, orthodox judaism, sam kinison, seventh day adventism, seventh day adventists
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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
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Tagged desmond ford, elementary school kids, placer high school, rob stutzman, seventh day adventists, things of the spirit
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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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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
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Tagged avondale college, freedom fries, seventh day adventism, seventh day adventists, story of abraham, vegie burgers
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