Towards Heaven
This week, Pastor Ted Wilson talks about the law of God, the subject of the nineteenth fundamental belief of the Seventh-day Adventists. Our first fundamental belief states that “the Holy Scriptures, Old and New Testaments, are the written Word of God, given by divine inspiration. […]
28 Fundamental Beliefs
In the previous episode, Pastor Ted Wilson talked about spiritual gifts. Today, he’s going to discuss one of these, the gift of prophecy. We read in Revelation 12:17 that “the dragon was enraged with the woman and he went to make war with the rest […]
28 Fundamental Beliefs
Everyone enjoys receiving gifts, especially from people we love, may it be on a birthday or any other special occasion. But more important than the gift itself is the person who took the time and effort to prepare and give it. And thoughtfulness is what […]
28 Fundamental Beliefs
Dear readers, In the sixth blog post of our journey through the book of Job – titled “An Unfounded Curse?” – we delve into the topic and face the challenges of Job’s seemingly groundless suffering. Here are the key points of this lesson: Justice and […]
Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living The Secret of Suffering and Comfort
🌊 THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES ⛪ Lesson 7 : The Bread and Water of Life 📘 7.4 Jethro✨ Wisdom That Brings Relief 🟦 Introduction In a world that is often loud and favors quick answers, genuine listening has become a rare gift. Even rarer […]
7.The Bread and Water of Life EXODUS Living Faith People love to hear stories about missionaries’ courage, self-sacrifice, and trust in God. What we don’t want to hear is about bureaucracy. But without a strong administrative infrastructure, it would be impossible to recruit, dispatch, sustain and return missionaries–the stories we love to hear […]
Mission 150 This episode focuses on two more missionary families, the Appels and Longways, who committed to nearly life-long service in the mission field, serving in the Far East (especially China) and the Middle East. 00
Mission 150This episode focuses on Merritt and Wilma Warren, who spent 47 years as missionaries, most of them in China. Merritt is thought to have hiked 25,000 miles across China! 00
Mission 150In this episode, David and Sam finish telling the story of George Keough, who is still a legend among Adventists in the Middle East for his incarnational ministry in the region for 33 years. 00
Mission 150This episode tells the story of the most important Adventist missionary most people have never heard of: George D. Keough. It covers the first ten years of his and his family’s mission experience in Egypt from 1908 to 1918, when he won extraordinary numbers of […]
Mission 150Sam and David are joined by a native of Kenya, Dr. Oscar Osindo, director of the Adventist Church’s Institute of World Mission, to talk about his many years of experience as a foreign missionary for the Church, about his years of involvement in ministry to […]
Mission 150 Sam and David interview a modern missionary, Amy Whitsett, about her experiences of ten years of missionary service in the Lao Democratic People’s Republic, and then six years in Thailand; and about her current work as Associate Director of the Church’s Institute of World […]
Mission 150In this episode, Sam and David talk about some of the early missionaries to the Middle East, about the sacrifices they made, about what historic photographs can tell us about Adventist history, and about the tendency to over-work among Adventist pastors and administrators. Some of […]
Mission 150 This episode looks at how missionaries to China fell in love with the country and its people but had to face local diseases for which there were no cures, so that misssionaries took terrible risks in their service. For more about the stories shared […]
Mission 150This episode looks at how missionaries to China fell in love with the country and its people but had to face local diseases for which there were no cures, so that misssionaries took terrible risks in their service. For more about the stories shared in […]
Mission 150The 1901 Reforms of the Adventist Church, discussed in Episode 24, were not an end. The work of reforming the church was completed att the 1903 General Conference Session, which laid the foundations for mission expansion in the following decades. To find out more, read […]
Mission 150The Seventh-day Adventist Church got back on track after the problems of the 1890s by undertaking very major organizational reforms at the famous 1901 General Conference Session, where Ellen White urged that change was needed “right here … right now”. More information can be gained […]
Mission 150In the 1890s, the expansion of the Adventist Church slowed down as personal clashes, administrative difficulties, and a wrong-headed approach to managing what had become a worldwide movement, all took effect. This episode examines how and why Adventist mission growth stalled at the very end […]
Mission 150The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a major force in the Inter-American region today, but it wasn’t always so. In this episode, Sam Neves and David Trim explore the lives of the Baxter family, which provided two generations of missionaries to Central America, South America, and […]
Mission 150In this episode, David Trim and Sam Neves tell more stories of missionaries who gave everything so that people could hear about Jesus; this time they focus on Southern and Eastern Africa. The stories come from David’s book, A Living Sacrifice (Pacific Press, 2019) which […]
Mission 150In this episode, David and Sam share inspiring and humbling stories of young men and women who gave their lives to open up the Adventist Church’s missionary work in the South Pacific. The stories come from David Trim’s book, A Living Sacrifice (Pacific Press, 2019) […]
Mission 150This week’s episode features a a doctor, preparing to serve as a medical missionary in a country where only doctors and nurses can work, becasue of religious restrictions. She shares about her family heritage of mission, her experience as a student missionary, and where she […]
Mission 150Dr. Gary Krause returns as our guest in this episode, and explains what the Office of Adventist Mission is doing to push forward the boundaries of Adventist mission. 00
Mission 150 Our guest in this episode is Dr. Gary Krause, Director of the Office of Adventist Mission. 00
Mission 150 Have you ever weondered what happened to Charles Andrews, John Andrews’s son who went with him to Switzerand in 1874? He remained an Adventist and so havee his descendants. In this episode we interview John Andrews’s great-great-great-great-gandson, Zachary Kirsten, who recently returned from an […]
Mission 150In this episode we talk with Fylvia Kline, who served as a missionary for several years in Nepal and now is director of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s online platform for finding and recruiting missionaries, VividFaith.com 00
Mission 150This episode considers the beginnings of Adventist mission in the vast territory formerly known as Rhodesia, today’s countries of Zimbabwe and Zambia. You will learn more about how Adventist related to colonial powers in the era of European imperialism. You will also hear the moving […]
Mission 150Mission to South Africa began with diamonds! An Adventst layman moved from the USA to Southern Africa to prospect for diamonds––he shared his faith and those he influenced appealed to the GC for missionaries. The first party of Adventist missionaries to South Africa arrived in […]
Mission 150 This episode explores early Adventist mission to the Caribbean. While the early message spread thanks to the distribution of Adventist literature, a vital role was played both by missionaries and by their indigenous converts who took the message beyond what missionaries could. This was […]
Mission 150 In West Africa, the Adventist presence pre-dates the first missionaries sent by the Adventist Church. This episode explores how this came about and the early history of Seventh-day Adventist mission in West Africa. It brings out the importance of literature in spreading the Adventist […]
Mission 150 Starting in 1902, the Seventh-day Adventist Church committed to mission to China in a substantial way, sending large numbers of missionaries and committing sizeable funds to China. This episode considers some of the early missionaries, the strategies the church used, and why the early […]
Mission 150 This episode tells the remarkable story of Abram La Rue, self-supporting missionary first to Hawaii and then to Hong Kong – the first Adventist missionary to Asia. A simple man, but one of incredible faith, his example is an inspiring one for Seventh-day Adventists […]
Mission 150 In 1885, a large party of Adventist missionaries travelled from the United States to Australia. This episode tells the stories of that first group of missionaries and the early years of the Adventist mission in Australia and the South Pacific. 00
Mission 150 While Mission 150 marks 150 years since John N. Andrews and his family went as missionaries to Europe in 1874, other missionaries soon followed them. This episode considers the successors to Andrews and those who worked as his colleagues, especially John Matteson, John Loughborough, […]
Mission 150 In 1874, John Nevins Andrews and his two children, Charles and Mary, travelled from the United States to Switzerland, the first missionaries sent by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This episode explores the situation John found when he arrived in Switzerland, the difficulties he faced […]
Mission 150 John Nevins Andrews was the person the Seventh-day Adventist Church sent as its first overseas missionary. But who was he? This episode explores the life of John N. Andrews up to the point when the Church took the major decision to send him. It […]
Mission 150 Hannah More was the first Seventh-day Adventist in Africa. But what happened to her after her time as a missionary? This episode looks at what happened to her after she returned to the United States and her tragic death. It explains why someone with her […]
Mission 150 Did you know that there was an Adventist missionary in Africa before the Church sent John N. Andrews to Europe? Find out more on this episode of Mission 150 which recounts the early life of the remarkable Hannah More. 00
Mission 150 In episode 1 of Mission 150, we explained that Seventh-day Adventists initially were very cautious about mission beyond North America. This episode explores how and why that changed, and the young movement’s move to finally embrace the idea of mission to all the world. […]
Mission 150 Even before the Seventh-day Adventist denomination was founded in 1863, seventh-day Sabbath-keeping Adventists had begun to ask whether they should be conducting mission outside North America. This first episode of Mission 150 explores the early discussions about overseas mission and reveals surprising facts about […]
Mission 150 Mission150 tells the exciting story of the 150 years of Adventist Mission to the world. Each week, the podcast explores the past and the present of the Adventist missionary enterprise. Join each episode to learn, to be challanged, and to be inspired, to be come […]
Mission 150
🌊 THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES ⛪ Lesson 6: Through the Red Sea 📘 6.5 The Song of Moses and Miriam✨ Praise After the Victory 🟦 Introduction After the people of Israel had crossed the Red Sea and the Egyptians perished in the waters, joy […]
6.Through the Red Sea EXODUS Living Faith
📅 07 August 2025 📚 BELIEVE HIS PROPHETS 📖 Daily Bible Reading 🔥 Leviticus 23 – The Feasts of the Lord – Signs of Divine Fellowship ✨ God’s Holy Calendar: Insights into the Nature of His Redemption ══════════════════════════════════════════════ 📜 Bible Text – Leviticus 23 (KJV) […]
Believe His Prophets Leviticus
📅 August 7, 2025 🌾 Joseph – Faith That EnduresDevotions from the life of a dreamer with character 🕊️ 13.Imprisoned, Yet Free in HeartHolding on to What’s Right – Even When It Hurts 👣 Introduction Sometimes we find ourselves in situations we cannot escape: a hospital […]
Heart Anchor
🌊 THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES ⛪ Lesson 6: Through the Red Sea 📘 6.4 Marching Forward by Faith✨ Trust Despite Fear 🟦 Introduction In Exodus 14:13–31, we witness one of the most dramatic moments in salvation history: Israel trapped between the Red Sea and […]
6.Through the Red Sea EXODUS Living Faith
📅 06 August 2025 📚 BELIEVE HIS PROPHETS 📖 Daily Bible Reading 🔥 Leviticus 22 – Purity and Perfection in Service to God ✨ Serving God Worthily – Preserving Holiness ══════════════════════════════════════════════ 📜 Bible Text – Leviticus 22 (KJV) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak […]
Believe His Prophets Leviticus
📅 August 6, 2025 🌾 Joseph – Faith That EnduresDevotions from the life of a dreamer with character ⚖️ 12.When You Do Good and Get PunishedHolding on to What’s Right – Even When It Hurts 👣 Introduction It’s a bitter moment when you choose to […]
Heart Anchor
🌊 THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES ⛪ Lesson 6: Through the Red Sea 📘 6.3 Crossing the Red Sea✨ When Faith Is Put to the Test 🟦 Introduction The crossing of the Red Sea is one of God’s greatest acts of salvation in the Old […]
6.Through the Red Sea EXODUS Living Faith
📅 05 August 2025 📚 BELIEVE HIS PROPHETS 📖 Daily Bible Reading 🔥 Leviticus 21 – Holiness in the Priesthood – God’s Standard for His Servants ✨ Called to purity because we serve the Holy One ══════════════════════════════════════════════ 📜 Bible Text – Leviticus 21 (KJV) 1 […]
Believe His Prophets Leviticus
📅 August 5, 2025 🌾 Joseph – Faith That EnduresDevotions from the life of a dreamer with character 🏃♂️ 11.Flee from Sin – Not from GodCourage to Flee – When Standing Still Is Not an Option 👣 Introduction Sometimes strength is not in standing still […]
Heart Anchor
🌊 THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES ⛪ Lesson 6: Through the Red Sea 📘 6.2 Consecration of the Firstborn✨ Redeemed for a Life Belonging to God 🟦 Introduction The story of the consecration of the firstborn is more than an Old Testament ritual. It is […]
6.Through the Red Sea EXODUS Living Faith