So what's the big deal that Uzziah wishes to offer up incense to the Lord; after all, it's to the Lord that it is being offered and not to some... god! Besides, this is only done out of obvious love and appreciation for the Lord. What could be so wrong? There are a few flaws with this mode of thought
So What's the Big Deal?
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NCU Chamber Delights Audiences During its North Jamaica Tour
For Spring 2013, the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Chamber Choir embarked on a series of musical presentations across Northern Jamaica, showcasing the renowned ensemble’s musical ministry. The weekend tour took the talented group of current and past students to the towns of Bog Walk, Ocho Rios, Falmouth, and Montego Bay, to perform for varying audiences. Under the leadership of Dr Andrew Marshall the Chamber Choir presented an aspect of the NCU life that is most loved by students, alumni, workers, and the extended family. The special performances were the highlight of a rather busy calendar of concerts, lyceums, recitals and appearances organized by NCU’s Music department.
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Danish Union suspends all ministerial ordination until 2015
Seventh-day Adventist church officials in Denmark voted this week to halt the ordination of all new ministers until the General Conference Session in July 2015.
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Jamaica - The Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean?
A 12-person delegation, headed by the Honourable Julian Robinson, Minister of State in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, has just returned from a four-day visit to Santiago, Chile, to see first-hand how that country is developing a robust ecosystem for entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Do You Have a "But" Switch?
“And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah had done (although he did not enter the temple of the Lord). But still the people acted corruptly.” 2 Chronicles 27:2
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Photographic Highlights of SOME's Maths Marathon at May Day High
A number of students within Jamaica and the Caribbean have over the years struggled to achieve mastery of literacy and numeracy at the Caribbean Secondary Examination Council (CSEC) level. The recurring shortfall spurred the faculty and students at Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) department of Mathematics and Engineering into action.
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Seven Ways to Love Your Mother
Mother's Day is a celebration honouring mothers and motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in March or May. Mother’s day in Jamaica is celebrated on the second weekend in May, whilst traditionally this celebration occurs on the Sunday, Seventh-day Adventists (SDA) celebrate with the mothers on the Sabbath of the weekend. Northern Caribbean University (NCU) president Dr Trevor Gardner and his wife, Dr. Patricia Gardner, recently celebrated with the congregation at the Kencot SDA church in Kingston, Jamaica.
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NCU Academic Club Helps Manchester Students
A number of students within Jamaica and the Caribbean have over the years struggled to achieve mastery of literacy and numeracy at the Caribbean Secondary Examination Council (CSEC) level. The recurring shortfall spurred the faculty and students at Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) department of Mathematics and Engineering into action. The department along with the academic club, Society of Mathematicians and Engineers (SOME), have partnered with the May Day High school in central Manchester to engage students doing the 2013 CSEC examinations and others with the passion to master the craft in a Maths Marathon recently. The drive, which is in its second year, has earned the admiration and respect of the administration of the non-traditional high school which saw an improvement in the overall passes of the ‘troubled’ subject in the last year.
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Treasure Our Legacy
Ahaz, ninth ruler of Judah, took rebellion against God to a disgusting high – amidst all the atrocities, he also sacrificed his own children to Baal. But just before we decide to pull on our judicial garb for Ahaz, let’s check ourselves first. How might children be yet sacrificed today? Could it occur in where we choose to have them educated; trying to keep up with the world's standard? Perhaps it's the lack of quality time spent with them - due to the demands of work, or the indulgence of a pack social schedule. Could a child's future be blighted due to the corrupting influence of unrestrained parents? How about when authority that parents should exert in the home is deferred to children? It is as true today as it ever was, "The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself, bringeth his mother to shame;" and "Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction will drive it far Prov. 29: 15; 22:15.
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Photographic Highlights of NCU Kingston Campus Short Course Graduation
Residents of Kingston and St. Andrew who were recently trained in Customer Service and Supervisory Management at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Kingston Campus on Tuesday May 14, graduated from the programme to pomp and pageantry at the Webster Memorial Church on Half-Way Tree road.
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Four new unions created in West-Central Africa Division
The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s West-Central Africa Division this year will create four new union administrative units, an action that underscores membership growth in the region and a need for more strategic planning in local fields.
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Taxes Are Good Too
Is Jesus’ talent story in Matthew 25:14-30 supposed to be about a kingdom of heaven in the hereafter, or is it about earthly citizenship? Does it make you wonder about the relation between God’s kingdom and civic duty? The illustration He borrows from the now certainly shows that Christian reflection about then has a place in the now. Thinking about now and then together does have its profit.
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Service For Scholarships
SIXTH-FORM AND tertiary-level students having trouble financing their education have been given a lifeline; but they will have to work for it.
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Swiss Adventists Unite for Meeting
More than 2,000 Seventh-day Adventists from the French- and German-speaking areas of Switzerland united May 4, 2013, in the city of Biel/Bienne for a congress celebrating 147 years of Adventism in the Alpine nation.
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Adventist Health Worker Remains Missing in Kiev, Ukraine
More than three days after disappearing in Kiev, Ukraine, a Seventh-day Adventist health worker from Yakima, Washington, remains missing, local church officials said Friday, May 17, 2013. Search efforts continue and are intensifying.
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GEMS Launched at New Haven
"Who can find a virtuous woman, for her price is far above rubies." This is the standard to which some young ladies aspired as they participated in the launching of the Girls of Eloquence, Morals and Standards Emerging into Mature Sisters – GEMS Ministry at the New Haven Seventh Day Adventist Church on Sabbath, April 13, 2013.
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Annual report highlights worsening freedom of belief worldwide
This year’s report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has Seventh-day Adventist human rights experts concerned over growing state-sponsored or condoned intolerance toward minority faith groups worldwide.
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First European Health Conference sees renewed interest in health outreach
Seventh-day Adventist medical experts and health advocates want to better understand and share the ministry of healing they say the church is called to embrace. Six hundred of them met in Prague last month for the first European Health Conference.
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Sometimes a Christian Cries
How do we find the gospel glistening in a falling teardrop? Given that the word “gospel” comes from the Greek euaggelion, meaning “good news,” one may quite justifiably ask: “What’s the crying for if you’ve got the good news?” Doesn’t the gospel mean that when we accept Christ, we become “new creations,” experience “joy unspeakable and full of glory,” and “live happily ever after”? And indeed it does. But that didn’t stop Jesus from weeping (John 11:35). Remember?
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Going in Circles
I often think about the many people who enter my sphere of influence in a typical week.
I think of the talented people who share my office space. It’s been my extreme good fortune to work with creative people who are not only friends, but fellow believers.
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