Salinas Seventh-day Adventist Church

09/07/2026

Amazing, Incredible Design 🙌❤️🙏

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**Imagine copying an entire instruction manual containing billions of characters—at high speed—while simultaneously checking your work for mistakes. That is, in a sense, what happens inside your cells when DNA is replicated.**

Before a cell divides, it must duplicate its DNA so that each daughter cell receives a complete set of genetic instructions. In humans, that means accurately copying roughly **3 billion base pairs** of DNA.

The process begins as molecular machinery unwinds the DNA double helix. DNA polymerases then use the existing strands as templates to build new complementary strands. At a typical human replication fork, DNA polymerase can add roughly **50–100 nucleotides per second**. Because replication occurs at many forks throughout the genome, enormous amounts of genetic information can be duplicated within a relatively short period.

But the truly remarkable part is that **speed is combined with quality control**. DNA polymerases have proofreading capabilities that detect and remove many incorrectly incorporated nucleotides. Other cellular repair systems can identify and correct different forms of DNA damage and replication errors.

So DNA replication isn't simply a molecule being “copied.” It is a coordinated molecular process involving **unwinding, reading, synthesis, proofreading, correction, and repair**—with different molecular components working together to preserve genetic information.

Every time your cells divide, this extraordinary molecular operation is repeated.

**Billions of genetic letters are duplicated, checked, and maintained—not by one machine, but by an entire network of molecular machinery working together.**

The more we understand what happens at the molecular level, the more we realize just how much is hidden behind the simple phrase: **“DNA is copied.”**

09/06/2026

Never think God cannot use you: The converted adulterous Samaritan woman, though despised by the disciples, was a more effective missionary than they were! 😮 “Through the woman whom they despised, a whole cityfull were brought to hear the Saviour.” —Desire of Ages p195 (John 4:28-30, 39-42)

08/30/2026

08/22/2026

Darwin thought the cell was simple… if he knew this, he would fall down and worship the Creator in awe and wonder. He said if irreducibly complex bio systems are found, his theory of evolution would be invalidated. They are everywhere! Even in the “simple” cell.
👉Indeed “I will praise You, for I am awesomely and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.” Psalms 139:14

07/22/2026

The Law doesn’t save us, it defines righteousness (Love for God & humanity)—His character which He promises to write on our hearts as a gift as far as we allow Him… Love never forces 🙌😍🙏

07/20/2026

When we think of Joseph, we remember the pit.

The slavery.
The prison.
The palace.

But Genesis wants us to remember something else.

Joseph wept.

Again.
And again.
And again.

He wept when he heard the voices of the brothers who had sold him into slavery (Genesis 42:24).

He wept when he embraced Benjamin after decades apart (Genesis 43:30).

He wept so loudly when he revealed himself that all of Pharaoh's household heard him (Genesis 45:2).

He even wept when his brothers feared he would finally repay them after their father's death (Genesis 50:17).

The naartive is inviting us to notice something deeper.

The brothers who once held Joseph's life in their hands were now standing with their lives in his.

He could have imprisoned them.
He could have condemned them.
He could have made them suffer as he had suffered.

Instead...
Joseph wept.

That is the moment Genesis wants us to stop and consider.

Because the greatest battle in Joseph's story was never between Joseph and his brothers.
It was the battle over Joseph's heart.

Would suffering make him bitter?
Would injustice teach him revenge?
Would years of pain slowly reshape him into the image of those who had wounded him?

Genesis answers those questions with one quiet sentence repeated throughout Joseph's life:

"𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗢𝗥𝗗 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗽𝗵."

The Lord was with him in the pit.
The Lord was with him in Potiphar's house.
The Lord was with him in prison.

Long before God changed Joseph's circumstances, He was doing something far deeper.

He was preserving Joseph's heart.

But before God entrusted Joseph with a kingdom, He was teaching Joseph to walk with Him.

Joseph's brothers could take his robe.
They could take his freedom.
They could take years of his life.

But they could not take the presence of God.

And because they could not take God's presence, they could not ultimately take the man God was shaping him to become.

That is why Genesis keeps recording Joseph's tears.

Moses could have simply told us that Joseph forgave his brothers.
Instead, he repeatedly tells us that Joseph wept.

Those tears reveal something the palace never could.

They reveal that although Joseph had been deeply wounded by sin, his heart had not been conquered by it.

His tears were not proof that God had failed to heal him.

They were proof that suffering had never succeeded in making him cold.

The pit had not hardened him.
Slavery had not poisoned him.
Prison had not consumed him.
Power had not corrupted him.

Only the presence of God can preserve a heart like that.

Because the greatest evidence of God's work is not merely that He changes our circumstances.

It is that through Christ, He gives us a heart that still knows how to love where sin taught us to hate.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺.

07/13/2026

“And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.” —Revelation 22:17