Adventist Review Podcasts

Jan 30 2025 100 ep. 2 mins 162
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Adventist Review is the official magazine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

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OUT OF THE DEPTHS (January 31, 2025)

Jan 30 2025 2 mins  
“When I’m deep in a hole, lower a rope, not a shovel.” The last thing we need when we’ve dug ourselves profoundly into pain or confusion or sin is more of the same. Our best efforts got us there: our best efforts won’t deliver us. The pit only gets deeper—and so does our frustration. As Scripture says, “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads

NO JANUARY AUDIT (January 24, 2025)

Jan 23 2025 2 mins  
It’s a scene played out 10 million times in the 30 days since Christmas: “You shouldn’t have . . .” “But I didn’t get you anything. . .” “I didn’t hear we were exchanging gifts . . .” A stranger from another planet might conclude that our annual Christmas gift-giving is actually an exquisite balancing act—designed to keep each party from feeling awkward for ha

GRACE BEFORE WE PRAY (January 17, 2025)

Jan 16 2025 2 mins  
That impulse in our souls to pray—to find our knees; to stammer out the words—grows from an early, dim awareness of just how much we need the grace of God. We pray because we cannot fix our world or ourselves. We kneel because we’re powerless to heal sick children, pay the bills, or mend unhealthy marriages. We call out as we weep for all the clash between our living and God�

GRACE WILL LEAD US HOME (January 10, 2025)

Jan 09 2025 2 mins  
Like all the stories Jesus told, this one comes very close to home. We justly celebrate the prodigal. He finds himself among the pigs, then soberly concludes that he should go back home. And we deplore that bitter brother whose body never left the farm, but whose hard heart had left the Father long ago. Unlike each other as they seem, both shared a common malady. Neither prized the

UNRESOLVED (January 03, 2025)

Jan 02 2025 1 mins  
The diet lasts a dozen days. The treadmill hasn’t spun 10 miles. The Bible sits where it was left, unopened and unsavored. We grieve the effortless unraveling of all the goals we wanted to achieve—to lose the weight; increase the steps; find hope and quiet in God’s Word. We are too close to dreams undone, to lofty visions gone awry. So how does God address our lack of grit a

LOVE CAME DOWN (December 27, 2024)

Dec 26 2024 2 mins  
This painful year has made us clear on what we want for Christmas. Though Lexus and Mercedes-Benz are sure we want a gleaming ride with giant ribbons on the roof, we have no miles we want to drive. The ads all tease us with dark fantasies on Amazon or Netflix, but we still have our darkness to get through. The tech toys that we bought for sport have only one compelling use this yea

WHAT THE ANGEL REALLY SAID (December 20, 2024)

Dec 19 2024 2 mins  
Ten thousand earnest Christmas pageants offer us some cherub child, dressed as an angel, stepping forth to utter words that sound well-nigh impossible. “Fear not,” he says, “for behold I bring you tidings of great joy.” (Luke 2:10). “Fear not?” we think, but never say. “Does God not know our real lives?” That declaration echoing through centuries has shaped how many

AGAINST ALL ODDS (December 13, 2024)

Dec 12 2024 2 mins  
It isn’t only doubters who bemoan the passing year. Believers also crouch against the onslaught of the news. Tragic wars that never end; the end of good and gentle folk; the dull monotony of pain that robs our midnight of its sleep. And one more baby, born into a world where thousands never see one week. But here we witness Heaven’s great surprise. In weakness was obscured gre

THE EAGERNESS OF LOVE (December 06, 2024)

Dec 05 2024 2 mins  
An old regulation from the era when most people traveled by train included this puzzling requirement: “When two trains approach a crossing both shall stop, and neither shall go ahead until the other has passed by.” The long-ago rule is, of course, a prescription for neither movement nor change. But it sounds just like the ways we all behave when we find ourselves in conflict wi

WITH GRATITUDE, BELIEVE (November 29, 2024)

Nov 29 2024 2 mins  
It is likely the oldest question humanity has ever asked: “What must we do to perform the works of God?” And for millennia, honest, searching people have provided their own answers to the question. Magnificent temples and cathedrals have been built; exquisite liturgies have been composed; amazing acts of kindness have unfolded—all in the hope God would be pleased with the wo