March 2016

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How should Seventh-day Adventists define and defend the principles of religious liberty? In the March Gleaner, read how the Northwest Religious Liberty Association has impacted this important area of church mission for 25 years.

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Restoring Our Public Relevance: The 25-Year Legacy of the Northwest Religious Liberty Association

February 26, 2016 | Gregory Hamilton

Because of their prophetic beliefs, Seventh-day Adventists have imagined a world without religious freedom perhaps more than most people of faith. This proclivity has unfortunately led our church at times to minimize the importance of religious fr...

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Accommodating the Sabbath

February 26, 2016, by Charles Steinberg, Esq.

My cell phone rang. It was Jeffrey Britt, a member of the Bremerton Church in Washington.

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Others

A Fresh Focus on Creation

May 12, 2016, by Max Torkelsen

If you take the words of Scripture as they read, without clever interpretations or complicated hermeneutics, it is pretty easy to understand what they say about the origins of life on Planet Earth. “By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; a...

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Grace

April 23, 2016, by Steve Vistaunet

"God spreads grace like a 4-year-old spreads peanut butter — He gets it all over everything." Mark Lowry

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Borrowing Trouble

May 20, 2016, by Seth Pierce

One of the most important roles in any group project, whether it be for work, school, church or even family, is electing someone to worry. While people inevitably volunteer to make phone calls, write up data, edit data or order lunch (usually my j...

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A SWOT Analysis from Jesus

April 22, 2016, by Martin Weber

A time-tested evaluation tool for corporations and other secular institutions is the SWOT analysis. It summarizes significant strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to that organization.

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