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09/09/2023
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No services at church today! Stay warm!

All are invited to join us for a time of music Saturday, December 18 at 11 AM at the Valentine Seventh Day Adventist chu...
12/18/2021

All are invited to join us for a time of music Saturday, December 18 at 11 AM at the Valentine Seventh Day Adventist church, 8th & Haley Street, in Valentine Nebraska. Enjoy the music of rich violins, pianos, mandolins, and many voices as we celebrate the season. Please plan on staying for Christmas dinner immediately following.

10/02/2021

Greetings friends,
This is the last post I will be making on this page as the pastor of the Valentine Nebraska Seventh-day Adventist church. My wife and I have accepted a call to pastor the North Platte Nebraska Seventh-day Adventist church district.
I would like to leave you with this: "For I am convinced [and continue to be convinced--beyond any doubt] that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present and threatening, nor things to come nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the [unlimited] love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." ~Romans 8:38-39{The Amplified Bible}~ This passage is the bottom-line statement concerning the love of God that is in Christ. No matter the circumstances we may encounter in our daily lives, no matter how much we may mess up, God will always be there for us with His "Agape," the everlasting continual love for all humanity. So stay faithful my friends. God Bless.

10/02/2021

It should be the goal of every Christian to “sin no more,” although we recognize that, while we are in the flesh, we will still stumble 1st John 1:8. God’s desire for each of us is to be holy as He is holy 1st Peter 1:16. We still sin, but sin is no longer a lifestyle choice 1st John 3:9–10. When we fail, we can come to God and ask forgiveness 1st John 1:9; 1st Peter 4:1–2. And if we are truly God’s children, He will correct us, disciplining us when we need it Hebrews 12:1–11. His work is to conform us to the image of His Son Romans 8:29.

10/02/2021

As you can imagine, the woman caught in adultery did not return to her infidelity. She had met Jesus. She would not be perfect. No one is. But she was forever changed. Her eyes had been opened to the depravity of what she was doing. Sin no longer held the appeal it once did. When we meet Jesus, sin no longer holds its fatal attraction. Grace changes things. “Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?” Romans 6:1–2. When we are born again John 3:3, the power of the Holy Spirit breaks the power that sin once had over us Romans 6:6. Once we lived only to please ourselves, but when we have been forgiven, our motivation changes. We now live to please God Galatians 2:20.

10/02/2021

In saying, “Go and sin no more,” Jesus was not speaking of sinless perfection. He was warning against a return to sinful lifestyle choices as we just established through the defining of anamartetos which means sinless perfection and hamartano which means to sin habitually. His words both extended mercy and demanded holiness. Jesus was always the perfect balance of “grace and truth” John 1:14. With forgiveness comes the expectation that we will not continue in the same path of rebelliousness. When we know God’s love, we will naturally want to obey Him John 14:15. When we turn to Christ and receive His forgiveness, we experience a heart change Luke 9:23; Acts 1:8. Forgiveness is not cheap, and it does not excuse the sin that separated us from God. It cost God everything to offer us the cleansing that pronounces us righteous before Him John 3:16; 15:13. Rather than continue in the self-centered path that leads us astray from Him, we can walk in God’s path Luke 14:27. A move toward God is a move toward righteousness, purity, and holy living 1st Peter 1:16; Romans 8:29. We cannot experience the transforming power of forgiveness without being forever changed.

10/02/2021

This is the same message that Ellen White advocates as well. From the book Selected Messages volume 3, page 355 and the Signs of the Times, March 23, 1888 find the following: “We cannot say, ‘I am sinless,’ till this vile body is changed and fashioned like unto His glorious body. But if we constantly seek to follow Jesus, the blessed hope is our of standing before the throne of God without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; complete in Christ, robed in His righteousness and perfection.” It is clear both from the Bible and the writings of Ellen White that we will retain our sinful human natures until we are on our way to heaven as did Enoch, Moses and Elijah. 1st Corinthians 15:51-54. Scripture teaches that while we are in the flesh, we will always struggle with a sin nature Romans 7:14-24, Scripture is very clear on this point, that no one will be sinlessly perfect until we reach heaven.

10/02/2021

As we study this story, the story of the woman caught in the physical act of adultery, we discover that the narrative of this story is in full harmony with what Jesus did and taught.” In verse 7 of John chapter 8{KJV} we find Jesus telling the Scribes and Pharisees that “He who is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” Also, in verse 11 of John chapter 8{KJV} we find Jesus telling the woman “Go and sin no more.” In verse 7 Jesus uses the Greek word for sin ANAMARTETOS which means to be sinless, that is without sin. However, in verse 11 Jesus uses the Greek word for sin HAMARTANO which means to miss the mark, swerve from the way, generally to sin habitually. Therefore, we see that Jesus never told the woman to become sinless, he told her not to chose to sin, however He told the Scribes and Pharisees that unless they were sinlessly perfect not to cast dispersions on this woman and by proxy, we should not cast dispersions on anyone unless we are free from hypocrisy ourselves.

10/02/2021

The Scribes and Pharisees had come to convict this woman; the woman caught in the very act of adultery, however, they went away convicted by their own conscience. They doubtlessly feared the guilty secrets of their own lives as well as their own complicity in this case—D.A. 461—would be revealed to the multitude. Their defeat by Jesus could not have been more dramatic. Then the story turns as Jesus asks her where her accusers are, to which she answers they’re not here, then Jesus tells her neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more. This is an important point, as Jesus came to not to condemn us but to save us through His personal sacrifice—John 3:17. Can you imagine the relief that came to this trembling woman from the words of mercy from Jesus Christ which was in abrupt contrast to the yelling and screaming of angry words by the mob that had brought her to Jesus to be condemned? Jesus pointed her to the chief thing that she needed, which was the forsaking of her sins.

10/02/2021

This story, the story of the woman caught in the very act of adultery, contains the only record of Jesus writing anything. There has been much written about Him, but none of His writings have been preserved. The characters that Jesus wrote on the pavement dust of the Temple were soon obliterated by the Temple traffic, and according to tradition, what Jesus wrote on the dusty pavement were the sins of the woman’s accusers—D.A. 461. The practice of writing in the sand is referred to in the Mishnah (Shabbath 12. 5, Soncino ed. Of the Talmud, p. 503). Jesus gives persistent inquirers an answer they are not expecting, and which all of them were unprepared for. None can claim sinlessness, and perhaps some may be more guilty than the woman—D.A. 461, therefore, none of them accept the challenge of Jesus. Jesus is not stating a general principle, one that would make absolute sinlessness the necessary condition of fitness for taking part in the punishment of guilt. This would nullify the law, as there is no one fitted to carry out the ex*****on could be found. He is speaking here, of a case where humanity sets themselves up as judges of others, whom they ought not to condemn unless they, themselves are guiltless. It is clear that Jesus absolutely abhorred adultery—Matthew 5:27-32—but He also abhorred self-righteous judging—Matthew 7:1-3.

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852 N Haley Street
Valentine, NE
69201

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9:30am - 12pm

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