What's In The News?
Do you recall back in 1998 how Pope John Paul the II released a statement that said, “To the dismay of Seven Day Adventist’s… but to the relief of everyone else, the Pope has declared that the world is not about to end. (-The Times, 24 April 1998, by Richard Owen in Rome)
Well it seems the SDA church no longer feels the same dismay they did 20 years ago. In fact, the president of the SDA General Conference just stated the following on camera. He said, “understand that yes, national Sunday Laws will come, persecution will come, but nothing of that sort is in the pipeline at the present time. Nothing that we have understood.” (-Ted Wilson) Continue reading
So many people read Bibles today but next to no one understands what they read because they don’t study their Bibles. You simply cannot read a Bible like you do a menu at a restaurant, or the instructions on how to build some cheap furniture. Now yes, you can get something out of reading the Bible this way, and is how most find Jesus as Lord. That’s what I like to call milky reading of the Word. But once you find Jesus, you get to know Him and His Word more deeply with each passing day if in fact you read His Word daily. (as you should) As you grow closer to Him you start to see things in His Word you missed when you read it before because as is stated Isaiah 28:9, you are starting to understand doctrine as a child that is weaned from the milk. 
“Free Sundays are what all Catholics, non-Catholics and non-believers need,” Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki told 
“Pope Francis has once again waded into ecological waters, inviting all people to pray for the environment while urging world leaders to “hear the cry of the earth.” …We no longer respect nature as a shared gift; instead, we regard it as a private possession. We no longer associate with nature in order to sustain it; instead, we lord over it to support our own constructs. …The human environment and the natural environment are deteriorating together, and this deterioration of the planet weighs upon the most vulnerable of its people.” –
President Donald Trump declared Sunday a national day of prayer for Hurricane Harvey victims. The president signed a declaration after he met with several faith leaders and evangelical ministers.
“Fox News reports that both BLM and KKK protesters came off the same bus in Charlottesville…” –
Hillary Clinton’s pastor compared her defeat to President Trump in the 2016 election to Jesus Christ’s death.
“In the name of fighting terrorism financing, a new U.S. Senate bill threatens to force private corporations to monitor your financial activity and empowers government to seize 
In his comments, Gore equated the fight against global warming to a religious-based, moral crusade similar to the civil rights fight, women’s suffrage, and the abolitionist movement during the Civil War era. Gore insisted that it is a moral imperative to fight against climate change. … And if you are a believer, as I am, I think God intends for us to open our eyes and take responsibility for the moral consequences of our actions.” –