AJamericanDiva
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HoneyLemonDrop said:
Of course I heard of Hanson Place in Brooklyn. As for the schools, your guess is as good as mine!
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Of course I heard of Hanson Place in Brooklyn. As for the schools, your guess is as good as mine!
AJamericanDiva
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zora said:
I saw Troy tonight at prayer meeting... my first prayer meeting in a long time. The hubby was like, "Let's go..." It was his first.
AJamericanDiva
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shinyblackhair said:Newly baptized SDA over here!!
I am interested in discussing with you all your views on caffeine drinks/chocolate. My hubby and I feel that this is more a EGW teaching rather than a Biblical principal. We don't eat pork/shellfish/ or consume alchol, however neither of us feel that tea or coffee is a spiritual hinderance or a sin.
Where do you all stand on this issue and any insight that we may be overlooking is most certainly welcome.
Hi, Shinyblackhair!
Welcome to the SDA family!
I remember growing up when we weren't allowed to drink Coke, coffee or any other caffeinated drink for that matter. I do remember however that there was no restriction on chocolate in our household, be it a bar or hot chocolate. I personally don't see anything wrong with it, as long as it is done in moderation. I don't really drink soda anyhow, but I like chocolate and will eat it once in a while. I drink coffee maybe twice a week tops, and even then there is sooo much milk in it that it's more like coffee flavored milk. Caffeine can be considered a drug and when ingested on a regular basis people can have withdrawals when they don't get it. When that happens, then I see it as a problem. Just my two cents.
AJamericanDiva
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Bklynqueen said:
Well, at least you're honest!
You're in Bklyn, why don't you pay a visit to my church in Park Slope... Kingsboro Temple. It's very lively and I think you'll like it.
Bklynqueen
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AJamericanDiva said:Well, at least you're honest!
My cousin goes to Kingsborough.
I'll think about it. Maybe I can get my daughter into Cradle Roll even though she may be too young ( 19 months). I like lively churches, I used to go to Emmaus in Flatbush and used to leave in the middle of the sermon, I was that bored. I'll let you know.
kisz4tj
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Bklynqueen said:My cousin goes to Kingsborough.
Your daughter isn't too young for cradle roll. Definitely not, no age is too young. I can attest that they have a great sabbath school for both kids and adults.
MomofThreeBoys
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Please visit
Kingsboro is a wonderful church. When I first moved to Atlanta and started going to the "supposed" equivalent hype church in Atlanta, I cried. Nothing could replace that Kingsboro void. I guess that's why my DH, friends and family felt the need to start a Mission. We are only 25 deep but we have CHURCH!
Even though Kinsboro is a bigger than average SDA church, it was (I hope it still is) warm, friendly, service-oriented, family-oriented, singles-oriented, young people-oriented, old people-oriented,everybody-oriented, progressive, Bible believing, truth speaking, music-loving church.
BTW, your daughter isn't too young, I started taking my son to Kinsboro craddle roll before he turned 1!
Kingsboro is a wonderful church. When I first moved to Atlanta and started going to the "supposed" equivalent hype church in Atlanta, I cried. Nothing could replace that Kingsboro void. I guess that's why my DH, friends and family felt the need to start a Mission. We are only 25 deep but we have CHURCH!Even though Kinsboro is a bigger than average SDA church, it was (I hope it still is) warm, friendly, service-oriented, family-oriented, singles-oriented, young people-oriented, old people-oriented,everybody-oriented, progressive, Bible believing, truth speaking, music-loving church.
BTW, your daughter isn't too young, I started taking my son to Kinsboro craddle roll before he turned 1!
Bklynqueen said:My cousin goes to Kingsborough.
AJamericanDiva
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Bklynqueen said:My cousin goes to Kingsborough.
I don't think they're ever too young for Cradle Roll. I will be taking my 10 month old.
AJamericanDiva
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Yes, it is! This weekend we had family life weekend. It was awesome. I've rejoined the choir too.
natalied said:Please visit
Even though Kinsboro is a bigger than average SDA church, it was (I hope it still is) warm, friendly, service-oriented, family-oriented, singles-oriented, young people-oriented, old people-oriented,everybody-oriented, progressive, Bible believing, truth speaking, music-loving church.
BTW, your daughter isn't too young, I started taking my son to Kinsboro craddle roll before he turned 1!
good2uuuu
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Hey ya'll Kingsboro folks! I finally got thear some of theservie this weekend! The sermon was of the hook!I have never heard the story of Hosea and Gomer broken down like that even though I have always know what it represents. I plan to Check out more services in the future.
And Bklynqueen, 19 months is defiantely not to young for cradle roll. Both my babies have been going since 3 or 4 weeks old. They love to hear the songs and the stories and play, and when old enough, they love the crafts. Of course my son loves the snacks.........
Take care ya'll!
And Bklynqueen, 19 months is defiantely not to young for cradle roll. Both my babies have been going since 3 or 4 weeks old. They love to hear the songs and the stories and play, and when old enough, they love the crafts. Of course my son loves the snacks.........
Take care ya'll!
toinette
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SDA checing in as well!!!! i was raised SDA mostly because of my grandma, but i dont go to church anymore (or observe the sabbath). i do still follow the dietary restrictioncs though, but i think thats more cuz i have no desire to eat pork and crustaceans and that other stuff. like someone else said, i;m a backslider.
here's a question for my non-observant SDA's: even though you dont "officially" practice SDA, do you feel that you could ever convert to something else? this is just a question that i've wonddered abut myself and i dont feel that i could ever be anything but SDA. how bout y'all?
here's a question for my non-observant SDA's: even though you dont "officially" practice SDA, do you feel that you could ever convert to something else? this is just a question that i've wonddered abut myself and i dont feel that i could ever be anything but SDA. how bout y'all?
Bklynqueen
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Thanks for the responses everyone. I've decided that I will go to Kingsboro on Easter weekend. I've just started to teach Delilah ( my daughter) "Yes, Jesus loves me" and she loves it! So as long as there is a lot of singing, I think she'll be entertained. LOL.
Bklynqueen
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toinette said:
When I was younger, I've toyed w/ the idea of converting to Muslim but has since changed my mind because the laws seem to benefit men more than women. I belive all religions have a bit of truth in them,I say I'm more spirtual that religious. I also practice the dietary laws for the same reason, tried the uncleaned foods, hated it and have no desire to try it again.
toinette
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Bklynqueen said:When I was younger, I've toyed w/ the idea of converting to Muslim but has since changed my mind because the laws seem to benefit men more than women. I belive all religions have a bit of truth in them,I say I'm more spirtual that religious. I also practice the dietary laws for the same reason, tried the uncleaned foods, hated it and have no desire to try it again.
thats so weird because i've been thinking about Islam a lot lately. I took a class on it and everything they were saying was making so much sense to me.
AJamericanDiva
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good2uuuu said:
Yup! I agree. The speaker was definitely off the hook. Broke down the story in a modern day equivalent. Good laughs to be had as well.
AJamericanDiva
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kisz4tj said:
No, I guess I should look into this.
MomofThreeBoys
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AJamericanDiva said:
Does anyone know any nice single Adventist black women b/w ages of 26-34 in Atlanta? I've got a couple of male friends I would like to set up. They are having a hard time finding good Adventist women in ATL. Don't ask me why!
MomofThreeBoys
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Does anyone know of a successful Adventist beauty salon? My sister is interested in opening up a salon that would be closed on Sabbath and I'm wondering if there are any success stories out there.
AJamericanDiva
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Just checking in on you guys.... Holla!
divya
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Sunday must be protected as day of worship, pope, in Austria, says
By John Thavis
9/10/2007
Catholic News Service (www.catholicnews.com)
VIENNA, Austria (CNS) – Celebrating Mass in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral, Pope Benedict XVI urged Austrian Catholics to protect Sunday as a day of spiritual focus in an increasingly busy world.
Modern Christians need an appointment with the Lord to give them a sense of direction and help them move beyond "the bustle of everyday life," the pope said Sept. 9.
And in an innovative touch that seemed to reflect the pope's recent attention to "green" issues, he suggested that Sunday be celebrated not only as a day of rest but as "the church's weekly feast of creation."
Referring to the biblical account of creation, the pope said that Sunday, as the first day of the week, saw the dawning of the created world, the day on which God said: "Let there be light."
For the early church, he said, Sunday gradually assimilated the traditional meaning of the seventh day, the Sabbath, the day God rested. But Sunday is also "the feast of thanksgiving and joy over God's creation," he said.
"At a time when creation seems to be endangered in so many ways through human activity, we should consciously accept this dimension of Sunday, too," he said.
The pope, on the final day of a three-day trip to Austria, began the liturgy with a procession along a street in front of the famed gothic cathedral. Rain that had fallen steadily throughout the morning stopped as the pontiff, dressed in lime-green vestments, waved to well-wishers who crowded the sidewalks and waved yellow bandanas.
Inside the packed cathedral, the pope was treated to the choral and orchestral music of the "Missa Cellensis," the Mass Joseph Haydn composed in honor of Mary in 1782.
In his sermon, the pope said Sunday has been transformed by Western society into leisure time. Leisure is important in "the mad rush of the modern world," but, unlike worship, it often lacks direction, he said.
He noted that for early Christians, Sunday Mass was not a commandment but an inner necessity -- a time to meet Christ.
"Without him who sustains our lives with his love, life itself is empty," he said.
In Austria, according to polls, regular weekly church attendance among Catholics has declined steadily over the last 30 years and today may be as low as 10 percent.
The pope also examined the radical nature of Christ's call to his disciples and, in a sense, to all his followers: the injunction to "leave everything behind" in order to be totally available for him and for others.
The aim, the pope said, is to "create oases of selfless love in a world where so often only power and wealth seem to count for anything."
The pope acknowledged that the idea of leaving behind family, friends and the good things of life strikes many people as strange.
Not everyone can make such a commitment, he said, but everyone should recognize the truth in Christ's call -- that "whoever wants to keep his life just for himself will lose it." Love demands going out of oneself, and leaving oneself, he said.
Afterward, the pope stood on a platform outside the cathedral and blessed a crowd of several thousand, his red cloak flipped up occasionally by a brisk wind. Many had stood in the wet weather for hours to get a glimpse of the German pontiff, and they cheered as the sun finally broke through.
The pope spoke about Mary's unconditional "yes" to God despite inner hesitation, and said her cooperation in the divine plan remains a model for all Christians.
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=25308
By John Thavis
9/10/2007
Catholic News Service (www.catholicnews.com)
VIENNA, Austria (CNS) – Celebrating Mass in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral, Pope Benedict XVI urged Austrian Catholics to protect Sunday as a day of spiritual focus in an increasingly busy world.
Modern Christians need an appointment with the Lord to give them a sense of direction and help them move beyond "the bustle of everyday life," the pope said Sept. 9.
And in an innovative touch that seemed to reflect the pope's recent attention to "green" issues, he suggested that Sunday be celebrated not only as a day of rest but as "the church's weekly feast of creation."
Referring to the biblical account of creation, the pope said that Sunday, as the first day of the week, saw the dawning of the created world, the day on which God said: "Let there be light."
For the early church, he said, Sunday gradually assimilated the traditional meaning of the seventh day, the Sabbath, the day God rested. But Sunday is also "the feast of thanksgiving and joy over God's creation," he said.
"At a time when creation seems to be endangered in so many ways through human activity, we should consciously accept this dimension of Sunday, too," he said.
The pope, on the final day of a three-day trip to Austria, began the liturgy with a procession along a street in front of the famed gothic cathedral. Rain that had fallen steadily throughout the morning stopped as the pontiff, dressed in lime-green vestments, waved to well-wishers who crowded the sidewalks and waved yellow bandanas.
Inside the packed cathedral, the pope was treated to the choral and orchestral music of the "Missa Cellensis," the Mass Joseph Haydn composed in honor of Mary in 1782.
In his sermon, the pope said Sunday has been transformed by Western society into leisure time. Leisure is important in "the mad rush of the modern world," but, unlike worship, it often lacks direction, he said.
He noted that for early Christians, Sunday Mass was not a commandment but an inner necessity -- a time to meet Christ.
"Without him who sustains our lives with his love, life itself is empty," he said.
In Austria, according to polls, regular weekly church attendance among Catholics has declined steadily over the last 30 years and today may be as low as 10 percent.
The pope also examined the radical nature of Christ's call to his disciples and, in a sense, to all his followers: the injunction to "leave everything behind" in order to be totally available for him and for others.
The aim, the pope said, is to "create oases of selfless love in a world where so often only power and wealth seem to count for anything."
The pope acknowledged that the idea of leaving behind family, friends and the good things of life strikes many people as strange.
Not everyone can make such a commitment, he said, but everyone should recognize the truth in Christ's call -- that "whoever wants to keep his life just for himself will lose it." Love demands going out of oneself, and leaving oneself, he said.
Afterward, the pope stood on a platform outside the cathedral and blessed a crowd of several thousand, his red cloak flipped up occasionally by a brisk wind. Many had stood in the wet weather for hours to get a glimpse of the German pontiff, and they cheered as the sun finally broke through.
The pope spoke about Mary's unconditional "yes" to God despite inner hesitation, and said her cooperation in the divine plan remains a model for all Christians.
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=25308
divya
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Pope: Sunday Worship a “Necessity” For All
Pope: Sunday Worship a “Necessity” For All
September 17, 2007 | From theTrumpet.com
Pope Benedict XVI says your life depends upon worshiping on Sunday.
“Sine dominico non possumus!” “Without Sunday [worship] we cannot live!” Pope Benedict xvi declared during a mass on September 9 at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.
Speaking on the final day of his three-day visit to Austria, the German pope voiced a strong call for Christians to revive Sunday keeping as an all-important religious practice.
“Give the soul its Sunday, give Sunday its soul,” he chanted before a rain-soaked crowd of 40,000.
Benedict said that Sunday, which he stated has its origin as “the day of the dawning of creation,” was “also the church’s weekly feast of creation.”
Warning against the evils of allowing Sunday to become just a part of the weekend, the pope said people needed to have a spiritual focus during the first day of the week, or else leisure time would just become wasted time.
Sunday worship, he warned, was not just a “precept” to be casually adhered to, but a “necessity” for all people.
In the opening greeting, the archbishop of Vienna said a movement in Austria had been initiated to protect “Sunday from tendencies to empty [it] of its meaning.”
In Austria, most businesses are restricted from operating on Sunday. However, some business groups are pressuring the government to be allowed to open, a move Roman Catholic groups vehemently oppose.
During Benedict’s trip to Austria, he called for Europe to look to its Christian roots, to trust in God and to defend traditional values.
The pope has been very vocal about Europe’s Christian—or Catholic—roots, and is pushing to have them included in the European Constitution. Although laws concerning Sunday worship are currently determined by individual nations, look for the European Union to eventually gain jurisdiction over the work week—which is one big reason the Catholic Church is so intimately involved with the evolution of the EU. For more on the Catholic Church and Europe, read “The Pope Trumpets Sunday” by the Trumpet’s editor in chief. •
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4260.2491.0.0
Pope: Sunday Worship a “Necessity” For All
September 17, 2007 | From theTrumpet.com
Pope Benedict XVI says your life depends upon worshiping on Sunday.
“Sine dominico non possumus!” “Without Sunday [worship] we cannot live!” Pope Benedict xvi declared during a mass on September 9 at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.
Speaking on the final day of his three-day visit to Austria, the German pope voiced a strong call for Christians to revive Sunday keeping as an all-important religious practice.
“Give the soul its Sunday, give Sunday its soul,” he chanted before a rain-soaked crowd of 40,000.
Benedict said that Sunday, which he stated has its origin as “the day of the dawning of creation,” was “also the church’s weekly feast of creation.”
Warning against the evils of allowing Sunday to become just a part of the weekend, the pope said people needed to have a spiritual focus during the first day of the week, or else leisure time would just become wasted time.
Sunday worship, he warned, was not just a “precept” to be casually adhered to, but a “necessity” for all people.
In the opening greeting, the archbishop of Vienna said a movement in Austria had been initiated to protect “Sunday from tendencies to empty [it] of its meaning.”
In Austria, most businesses are restricted from operating on Sunday. However, some business groups are pressuring the government to be allowed to open, a move Roman Catholic groups vehemently oppose.
During Benedict’s trip to Austria, he called for Europe to look to its Christian roots, to trust in God and to defend traditional values.
The pope has been very vocal about Europe’s Christian—or Catholic—roots, and is pushing to have them included in the European Constitution. Although laws concerning Sunday worship are currently determined by individual nations, look for the European Union to eventually gain jurisdiction over the work week—which is one big reason the Catholic Church is so intimately involved with the evolution of the EU. For more on the Catholic Church and Europe, read “The Pope Trumpets Sunday” by the Trumpet’s editor in chief. •
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4260.2491.0.0
divya
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Please see the sermons from 12/29/07 and 01/05/08. Pastor Wright talks about the pope's statement and meeting regarding the implementation of Sunday worship...
http://www.cpcsda.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=10254
With love.
http://www.cpcsda.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=10254
With love.
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aqualung
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The devotional is good this year. Excerpts summarizing each chapter of the Conflict of Ages series & a couple of other books.
Love Makes a Way
http://www.adventistbookcenter.com/Detail.tpl?sku=0816322317
Love Makes a Way
http://www.adventistbookcenter.com/Detail.tpl?sku=0816322317
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