Sunbeams

01/08/2023

BEARING FRUIT: ESSENTIAL, BUT NOT OPTIONAL

Bearing abundant and abiding fruit is not wishful thinking but a possibility because the Vine, Jesus Christ, and the Gardener, His Father, have provided everything. A true disciple of Jesus is only a branch who can do nothing apart from Him. Hence, as a branch rests on the vine before it bears any fruit, we also need to rest on our all-sufficient Lord.
-Melak Alemayehu

01/08/2023

Astronomical happenings in our August sky.🌌

It's August! another month full of astronomical events, from the Full Super Moon to the Full Super Blue Moon in late August - here are the top astronomical events for August!🌕✨

14/07/2023

Every effort made for Christ will react in blessing upon ourselves. If we use our means for His glory, He will give us more. As we seek to win others to Christ, bearing the burden of souls in our prayers, our own hearts will throb with the quickening influence of God’s grace; our own affections will glow with more divine fervor; our whole Christian life will be more of a reality, more earnest, more prayerful.
COL 354.2

11/06/2023

"We are com­ing to a time when, more than ever before, we shall need to press together, to labor unitedly. In union there is strength. In discord and disunion there is only weakness. ... In our separation from one another we are separated from Christ... Do not let Satan cast his hellish shadow be­tween brethren. Press together; in unity there is strength.' "
—Selected Messages, vol. 2, pp. 159, 160.

07/06/2023

Dear Young Hearts 💕

05/06/2023

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Psalm 133:1.

Christian unity is a mighty agency. It tells in a powerful manner that those who possess it are children of God. It has an irresistible influence upon the world, showing that man in his humanity may be a partaker of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. We are to be one with our fellow men and with Christ, and in Christ one with God. Then of us can be spoken the words, “Ye are complete in Him.”

05/06/2023

Astronomical Events for June 2023

The month of May ended full of astronomical events now we're heading into the month of June, from the Full Strawberry Moon to the Triple Conjunction of the Moon, Mars, & Mercury, here are the top astronomical events for this June, mark your calendar now!

June 2023
1 - Mercury at highest altitude
3 - Close Approach of Mars & M44
4 - Conjunction of Mercury & Uranus
4 - Venus at Dichotomy
4 - Mercury at Dichotomy
4 - Full Moon / Strawberry Moon
7 - Moon at Perigee
10 - Close Approach of the Moon & Saturn
11 - Moon at Last Quarter
11 - Arietids Meteor Shower
14 - Close Approach of Venus & M44
14 - Close Approach of the Moon & Jupiter
16 - Closse Approach of the Moon & Pleiades
17 - Close Approach of the Moon & Mercury
18 - Saturn Enters Retrograde Motion
18 - New Moon
21 - June Solstice
22 - Triple Conjunction of the Moon, Mars, & Venus
23 - Moon at Apogee
26 - Moon at First Quarter
27 - Bootids Meteor Shower

Source: In-The-Sky & Stellarium

- MoonTonight -

14/05/2023

There is a God above, and the light and glory from His throne rests upon the faithful mother as she tries to educate her children to resist the influence of evil. No other work can equal hers in importance. She has not, like the artist, to paint a form of beauty upon canvas; nor, like the sculptor, to chisel it from marble. She has not, like the author, to embody a noble thought in words of power; nor, like the musician, to express a beautiful sentiment in melody. It is hers, with the help of God, to develop in a human soul the likeness of the divine (EG White, MH 377.1).

Happy mother's day to all mothers out there! 💖

10/05/2023

In stooping to take upon Himself humanity, Christ revealed a character the opposite of the character of Satan. But He stepped still lower in the path of humiliation. “Being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” Philippians 2:8. As the high priest laid aside his gorgeous pontifical robes, and officiated in the white linen dress of the common priest, so Christ took the form of a servant, and offered sacrifice, Himself the priest, Himself the victim. “He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him.” Isaiah 53:5. DA 25.1

01/05/2023

To be sanctified is to become a partaker of the divine nature, catching the spirit and mind of Jesus, ever learning in the school of Christ. “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” It is impossible for any of us by our own power or our own efforts to work this change in ourselves. It is the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, which Jesus said He would send into the world, that changes our character into the image of Christ; and when this is accomplished, we reflect, as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord... Imperceptibly to ourselves, we are changed day by day from our ways and will into the ways and will of Christ, into the loveliness of His character. Thus we grow up into Christ, and unconsciously reflect His image. (Reflecting Christ, p. 20)