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Minoi
Minoi Their fingers touched as they gathered the last few grains of rice from the bottom of the shared bowl. Their eyes met and held, startling each in this symbol of their new unity. Both lowered
By winslow · #22 ·
An experience in leaving the SDA denomination
Welcome to you, new member! I've written about my experience in leaving the sDA denomination before on this list. In this post, I'll revisit the topic from a slightly different slant. For the most
By winslow · #21 ·
Unforgiven Sins
Unforgiven Sin Sin separates humanity from Creator. Scripture is plain about that and so I was taught. Each and every sin is a time bomb, discovered only in the investigative judgment on the
By winslow · #20 ·
Constancy
In trial, tribulation and trouble, I say, "God is love." In illness, weakness, death, sorrow and doubt, I cry out, "God is love." In genocide, wars, persecutions, I declare , "God is
By winslow · #19 ·
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By winslow · #18 ·
The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen White-some thoughts
Today, in the mail, we received a copy of Ellen White's book, The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan. Now, I've spent a great deal of time reading that book in the distant past. It was
By winslow · #17 ·
God is Love #2 First Person
God is love 2 first person My love is patient, My love is kind. My love envies not, My love boasts not, My love is not proud My love does not demean. My love seeks first the
By winslow · #16 ·
God is love
What Father requires of us, He Himself is and gives that same to us. When He says, "love your enemies," He is saying, "Love your enemies as I love mine." This is true in all that He desires from
By winslow · #15 ·
Layering Jesus
My wife, as I have said before, is still an Adventist. One Saturday, she returned from church and quoted her pastor as saying something like, " We Adventists have the law, but we have added
By winslow · #14 ·
A Dream--or, Maybe Not, 1800 words
/a Dream-or, Maybe Not From dreamless sleep, I startled into full consciousness, Looking down at the quilted form of my body. "So I'm dead," I thought. The slow rise and fall of the covering quilt
By winslow · #13 ·
God in His Own words Version 99 words
Hello All, For the past couple of months, I've been working my way through the first five books of the Bible changing all references by the writer to God or Yahweh from
By winslow · #12 ·
A Family Picnic
We gathered around the picnic table one Saturday afternoon, my four cousins, their parents, and my family of five. Someone blessed the food and we began passing it left -to-right between us.
By winslow · #11 ·
tragedy and farce
All of life is tragedy or farce until viewed through the lens of God's purposes and plans. Then tragedy turns to profit and farce becomes wisdom.
By winslow · #10 ·
A Dream and its Consequences
I woke from a vivid dream, a dream full of portent, heavy with decision. It lingered in wakefulness and hovers these nearly twenty years later.. As I have said before, I grew up on the grounds
By winslow · #9 ·
I am persuaded
Song by Charles Schlagle https://hopeforallfellowship.com/songs-of-hope/
By winslow · #8 ·
Adventists and the New Covenant
SDA and Covenants In one of my theology classes at Pacific Union College, the professor mentioned the old and new covenants. Somehow, the Mosaic Covenant became the Eternal Covenant which
By winslow · #7 ·
October 22
One-hundred seventy-eight years ago today, New England was in flames. It was not a literal burning, but a religious conflagration. Those on one side, mocked and derided those on the other. It was a
By winslow · #6 ·
My Path Out-1
4 X sda my path Out-1 On my mother's side of the family, I was a fourth generation Adventist; on my father's a third. This gave me a bit of cachet in the church, since my mother's roots go back to
By winslow · #5 ·
The terror of judgment
X sda investigative judgment terror It was a rare San Diego thunderstorm. Evening came on, but the clouds were so thick we barely noticed the change as day slid into night. Lightning
By winslow · #4 ·
On Returning to My Roots
X SDA-On Returning to My Roots What is it that draws me back, that entices me to revisit anti-Adventist web pages? Why do I feel this compulsion to read and reread the quirks and foibles of those
By winslow · #3 ·