{"id":4595,"date":"2013-01-08T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lightbearers.org\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2025-05-28T14:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T18:21:42","slug":"top-12-posts-from-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/top-12-posts-from-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 12 Posts from 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you missed them, here are the top 12 Light Bearers blog posts from 2012:<\/p>\n

#12 \u2013\u00a0What Is Arise Trying to Accomplish?<\/a><\/h2>\n

“We\u2019re laboring\u2014in mind, body, soul, and example\u2014to lift up Jesus Christ in the context of the Three Angels\u2019 Messages and to teach our students how to do the same. Our consistent and insistent refrain is the\u00a0personal conversion and discipleship\u00a0of our students.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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#11 \u2013\u00a0Food Not Bombs<\/a><\/h2>\n

“I\u2019ve found that one of the biggest blessings we can receive is helping people for the sole purpose of helping them. Too many poor and homeless people have been turned off to religion by our very zealous efforts to feed them and clothe them while scheming to make them religious.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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#10 \u2013\u00a05 Ways To Be A Successful Student On A Public College Campus<\/a><\/h2>\n

“Remember that a religion that is not active is not real religion.\u00a0A religion that is not shared is a religion not worth taking up.\u00a0A religion that does not impact life is a dead religion.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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#9 \u2013\u00a0Teetering on the Edge<\/a><\/h2>\n

“Everything we touch turns to gold and then to dust.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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#8 \u2013\u00a0Why it Matters<\/a><\/h2>\n

“The biblical doctrine of Creation (first<\/em> things) and the biblical doctrine of Eschatology (last things) are the bookends that anchor the central (or “the center of”) biblical doctrine, Christology. With either bookend missing, the grand doctrine of soteriology (how we are saved) falls, and with it Adventism as a biblically-driven movement.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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#7 \u2013\u00a0What to Do with Anger<\/a><\/h2>\n

“Let your mind be filled with praise rather than anger. Give your anger to God in exchange for His peace and joy.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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#6 \u2013\u00a0Three Simple Steps for Overcoming Any Sin<\/a><\/h2>\n

“God\u2019s love is the vital energizing factor in the victorious Christian life. No other power will do, because no other power can do.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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#5 \u2013 When Evil Strikes<\/a><\/h2>\n

“If God is love, then, of necessity, God suffers with us in every stab and twist of pain we ever feel.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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#4 \u2013\u00a0The Parable of Luke, Part 1<\/a><\/h2>\n

“A little over two years ago my wife and I had a most unexpected door slam shut just as we were walking through it. It smashed us in the face, knocking us to the ground. Then it came off its hinges, fell on top of us, sprouted arms, and began to poke us in the eyes.\u00a0<\/em>At least that’s how I remember it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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#3 \u2013\u00a0How Not to Be Weird<\/a><\/h2>\n

\u201cNormal\u201d is one of those shifting human concepts that elude stability, like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall. Who defines it? By what criterion do we measure it? And once \u201cnormal\u201d is defined in any given culture or clique of human weirdoes, you won\u2019t have to wait very long before it changes. \u201cNormal\u201d moves like the wind. You\u2019ll never be able to keep in sync with the world\u2019s ever-changing view of normality, coolness, beauty or success, nor should you even care to.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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#2 \u2013\u00a0Light Bearers + Arise: A Conversation About the Merger<\/a><\/h2>\n

Listen to Ty Gibson, James Rafferty and David Asscherick discuss the details and events leading up to the merger between Light Bearers and ARISE.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Light<\/a><\/p>\n

#1 \u2013\u00a0Why You Matter so Much<\/a><\/h2>\n

“In the wake of each person\u2019s decisions, strands of history are set in motion that otherwise would never unfold. The shape of reality itself has been and is being incrementally configured by the wondrous outworking of your will, my will, every other will, and the interplay between them all. What you do matters immensely because what you do brings into existence one relational dynamic after another, either positive or negative, that otherwise would not exist. Each deed you execute triggers a series of outcomes for which you are the solitary source.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thank you all for reading and sharing these articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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