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Name: Norman
Country: United States
State: California
Metro: San Bernardino
Birthday: 7/19/1977
Gender: Male
Interests: God, my fiancee Joelle, reading, Final Generation theology, spreading the 3 Angels' messages of Rev. 14, neurology, classical music, playing the French horn, reading good books
Occupation: Medical
Industry: Medical
Message: message me
Member Since:
1/10/2006
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| I'm sure by now you have all heard that I am engaged. Joelle and I are very happy. You can go to my blog at http://nmcnulty.blogspot.com for more frequent updates and you can see a video just after the proposal. Most of my updates from now on will be at this site. | | |
| Since I last posted, SWYC happened, Joelle moved to CA four weeks ago, and the evangelistic series with Randy Skeete in San Bernardino started. All of the sermons from SWYC are on www.audioverse.org. God really blessed this year, and we already have plans lined up for next year. We have a good SDA camp reserved for Labor Day weekend and Stephen Bohr and Ivor Myers, both of whom will be at GYC this year, have agreed to come. I'm in the process of negotiating with some other great speakers right now as well. It's going to be another powerful weekend.
Pr. Skeete has really been preaching some devastating messages. A really good sermon on www.audioverse.org that you should listen to is "What Does God Want for You?" I was almost shaking by the end of the sermon. He preached some other devastating messages entitled "Just Like Jesus" and "How to Resist Temptation". When you hear preaching like that, it just makes you wonder what the loud cry of Revelation 18 will be like when the whole earth is lightened with the glory of God and the 2nd Advent message. Three times this week, he preached about the Sabbath, and 11 non-SDAs came forward to accept the Sabbath message. One of them, I have befriended, and it really warmed my heart when he went forward to take His stand with Jesus.
Finally, it has been truly wonderful to have Joelle here. She's been extremely busy working on mailing out promo materials to conferences and schools. It really is a big job to stuff packages for all the SDA conferences, high schools, and colleges in the NAD, but it's been a good experience, and I've helped as much as I can. Joelle's pretty organized, efficient, and on top of things, I must say. It's hard to believe that today marks 18 months since we have been together. It's definitely good to live in the same town so we can be with each other on a consistent basis. Tonight we went to Old Town Pasadena to the Cheesecake Factory and enjoyed some vegan pasta.
So, to all you reading out there, just remember that Jesus can keep us from falling (Jude 24), that we can overcome as Jesus did (Rev. 3:21), God's last day people will have the same faith as Jesus i.e. the faith of Jesus (Rev. 14:12, Gal. 2:20), and that God allows us to pass through trials to develop the patience and character of Christ (read all of 1 Peter). And yes, the Sabbath still is the seal of God (Eze. 20:12,20; Rom. 4:11 i.e. sign = seal), which means that the remnant church, which keeps ALL the commandments (Rev. 12:17), including the Sabbath, is still the SDA church because within the SDA church (despite all of its tares), are those who really love Jesus and obey all of His commandments with a heart full of love to Him who gave His life for us (John 14:15). | | |
| Here I am sitting up after midnight on-call again. Just got a consult in the ER that I wished we didn't have to see. It's not really an emergency. Oh well.
So, if you haven't heard, SWYC starts this weekend. You can still sign-up on-site. Just let me know if you're coming.
If you come, you can expect to hear power-packed, Bible-based, Spirit-filled messages that will cut to the heart. The messages will be distinctively Adventist and will prepare people for the outpouring of the Latter Rain. And of course, all the messages will uplift Jesus Christ, who, according to EGW in Medical Ministry p. 49, was "a Seventh-day Adventist to all intents and purposes." So, why wouldn't you come to SWYC?
What you will NOT find at SWYC this year:
1. Drums on the stage
2. Rock music
3. Puppets and clowns
4. Movie clips to augment the sermons
5. Hollywood-style dresses up front
6. Clapping during the services
7. Any other contrived Satanic device to create a false Holy Spirit
If you were hoping for any of those 7 things, then I challenge you to come and see how fired up young people can get without all of those meaningless contraptions, and you will see what it means to be a true, faithful, Bible-believing, Christ-centered, loving Seventh-day Adventist Christian in the last days of this earth's history.
Visit our website at www.swyouthconference.org
I'm sure I'll breathe easier and sleep a lot better when it's all over. I also expect to be very spiritually rejuvenated when I come down from the mountain.
It won't hurt that Joelle is moving here a few days after the conference is over. It will be a huge blessing to have her around all the time. For those of you who haven't heard, she was hired by the Quiet Hour and will be working closeby in Redlands. | | |
| Joelle is in Europe till July 6. She's been gone since June 4. She did something really nice though in her absence as she knew I would miss her terribly. She wrote me a letter for every day that she is gone, so I have a new letter to look forward to each day. Thanks, Joelle, if you read this while in Europe.
In other news, I have two more weeks until my second year of residency is completed. Then just two more years and I'll be done with the neurology program at Loma Linda. The last two years will be a little lighter, which is nice, especially considering that Joelle is moving out.
We're also gearing up for an evangelistic series with Pr. Randy Skeete in September. We have 7 Bible workers hitting the streets every day and 10-15 Bible studies already have been generated. Pray for these meetings.
Finally, SWYC is set to go. For more info. check at www.swyouthconference.org It's going to be a great conference this year. Registration will open soon so sign up! You won't want to miss it. | | |
| I recently finished Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission by P. Gerard Damsteegt. It's an outstanding book showing how the SDA church developed all of its key doctrines based on the Bible, and it gives you a taste of what it would have been like to be an Adventist in those days.
Now, I am reading The Midnight Cry by Francis D. Nichol. It's going through the life history of William Miller and how God used him to give a message that was foretold in prophecy in Revelation 10.
I have been studying a lot recently about the rise of the Advent movement in the 1840s, and I have an overwhelming urge to be part of a modern day movement that sparks the same kind of revival, fervor, and opposition. The Millerites were ready for Jesus to come. How about us today? Are we willing to throw all of our life's energies into a message and movement that will cause the kind of awakening that happened back then? God is looking for people like us, and I challenge you to be part of something like that again today.
"A revival of true godliness among us is the greatest and most urgent of all our needs. To seek this should be our first work". 1SM 121. | | |
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