Adventist World Magazine

01/21/2025

The Seventh-day Adventist community in Australia is in shock after the unexpected death of pastor William Strickland. Strickland’s car was swept off a causeway by floodwaters in northern New South Wales on Saturday night, January 18. Strickland’s body was found Monday around midday.

William Strickland’s body was found two days after the deadly storm.

01/21/2025

"We need to learn to differentiate between the urgent and the important."

How do we stop the relentless drive of the urgent?

01/21/2025

Six ways to make stress less destructive.

Even though human bodies are built to endure incredible stress, why is it that what we experience as stress feels so negative?

01/20/2025

Patients in central Florida, United States, now have the option to receive hospital-level acute health care at home with AdventHealth Hospital at Home. The program, which launched at AdventHealth Winter Park January 13, enables patients who would have required an inpatient stay at the facility to receive care at home instead.

Program will allow patients to receive hospital-level care without an inpatient stay.

01/20/2025

"Is the university still where the church does its thinking? The answer clearly is . . . maybe!"

Religious entities have established schools of higher learning in hopes of endowing clergy with intellectual chops equal to the philosophical perils running rampant in local churches.

01/20/2025

"Too often we want good things to happen now, not later. We want to have answers to our pressing questions now. We want to have our problems and situations solved now. We long for pain to end now. And yet God, in His wisdom, wants us to learn to trust Him."

Two of Christ’s most profound miracles—raising the dead to life—took place after a painful waiting period for those who had experienced loss.

01/20/2025

From December 18 to 31, 2024, more than 4,000 attendees, including church leaders, government officials, and church members from across Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, gathered to commemorate the Bougainville Seventh-day Adventist Mission centennial celebrations. The event marked 100 years of faith, service, and community impact.

First missionaries to the country arrived in Bougainville in 1924.

01/20/2025

"With God, the impossible becomes the possible."

Christina’s first contact with Adventism was attributable to the efforts of someone who never saw the fruit of their labor.

01/20/2025

"What should the culture of the Advent movement be?"

What should the culture of the Advent movement be?

01/19/2025

"If everyone with a reason not to go didn’t go on missions, no one would go."

If everyone with a reason not to go didn't go on missions, no one would go.

01/19/2025

To be truly human, created in God’s image, includes the Sabbath!

Could one be fully persuaded that the Bible teaches the seventh-day Sabbath, faithfully set the day apart by not working, and go to church regularly, yet still not be “keeping the Sabbath”?

01/18/2025

For their senior project, Jenna Fanselau and Reuben Herbel, Walla Walla University recently graduated civil engineering majors, created a redesign of a one-day church for Maranatha Volunteers International. This redesign will help Adventist congregations around the world to expand safely when they need to do so.

Maranatha Volunteers International signature church building gets an upgrade.

01/17/2025

Sanitarium, a Seventh-day Adventist food company in Australia and New Zealand, has extended a helping hand to Coast Shelter, an organization that offers vital assistance and crisis accommodation to those in need. With the buy-in of the company staff, the company donated funds to make sure the shelter programs keep active and running.

Sanitarium assisted organization assisting crisis accommodation to those in need.

01/17/2025

Brain health is closely linked to general health rather than existing as a separate concept. Fortunately, many actions that improve physical health, such as managing blood sugar and blood pressure, along with practices that support mental health, such as therapy and mindfulness, directly support brain health. An expert explains why.

The surprising truth about the brain’s impact on overall health.

01/16/2025

Sporadic mentions of H5N1 bird flu in newsfeeds just weeks ago have turned into what might seem like a flurry of headlines on any given day. Health officials shared on Monday that a Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with H5N1 died, marking the first U.S. death from the disease. Here an AdventHealth expert highlights the importance of prevention.

AdventHealth’s Vincent Hsu highlights the importance of vigilance.

01/16/2025

"God spoke His forgiveness to my heart, but I could hardly accept it. I know better, I kept reminding myself and Him. So He reminded me of something else. Do you love your kids when they do something and they “know better”?" Full reflection: Link in 1st comment.

01/16/2025

01/16/2025

Andrews University has received a grant of US$6.3 million from Lilly Endowment, Inc., through its Ministry in Rural Areas and Small Towns initiative. The aim of the initiative is to provide resources to help churches in rural areas and small towns enhance the vitality of their ministries and strengthen the leadership of the pastors and lay leaders.

US$6.3-million grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc., will provide resources, strengthen leaders.