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Monday, February 26, 2007

Rob Bell Speaking at UCLA March 8

Rob Bell, pastor of Mars Hill Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is speaking at UCLA on March 8. Rob is a provocative speaker, with whom you may not agree on everything, but he'll definitely challenge you in your apprenticeship with Jesus.

Event Details
Interview with Rob Bell on Beliefnet

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posted by The Place @ 2/26/2007 10:37:00 AM 0 comments

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Does the Bible Prohibit Drinking Alcohol?

One of our small groups covered the issue of Christians and alcohol the other night. As many of you may know, the official Adventist denominational position is "Since alcoholic beverages . . .are harmful to our bodies, we are to abstain from them . . . ." The issue arose not from the perspective that alcohol use is good, but is the Adventist church overreaching Biblical truth, in order to reinforce the health and temperance message of Ellen White? After all there are many references to wine in the Bible and Jesus' first miracle described in the gospels was the turning of water into wine at the wedding at Cana.

Interestingly, it's the publications from official denomination sources that acknowledge the difficulty of some passages. See this article from the Adventist Review and Beer and Wine: The Bible's Counsel from the Adventist Biblical Research Institute.

Even more interestingly, it is the personal ministries of well-known Adventists that argue most strongly for an absolute position on all Biblical references. See Samuele Bacchiocchi and Doug Batchelor's Amazing Facts tract.

All argue, however, that the negative effects of alcohol in our lives are so great one wonders why some of us come so strongly to its defense.

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posted by The Place @ 2/22/2007 08:31:00 PM 0 comments

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Free Concert in Ventura from Tree63

Thursday, 2/22 at 7pm at Ventura Missionary Church (300 High Point Drive in Ventura). A free concert and a free will offering will be taken. For more info call the church's event hotline at 642-0550 x382. If like U2, you'll probably like the music of Tree63. Some of their hit songs include: "Blessed Be Your Name", "I Stand For You" , "Look What You've Done", "King", "Treasure", and "Joy". Check out their hits and a couple of their newer songs, "All Over the World" and "Lift" at their MySpace page.

posted by The Place @ 2/13/2007 12:12:00 PM 0 comments

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Place Members Speaking on Media This Sunday

Three members of The Place--Alicia Adams, Gerry Chudleigh, and Jeremy Bachmann--will be speaking this Sunday, February 11th, in Loma Linda at the Southern and Southeastern California Conferences 2007 Communication Workshop at the LLBN-TV Studios.

Alicia will speak on writing dynamic copy, Gerry will speak on sharing news online, and Jeremy will discuss driving traffic to the local church website.

Details and registration information are available online.

posted by The Place @ 2/07/2007 11:10:00 AM 1 comments