Timothy Perenich DC, MA | Advent Messenger https://adventmessenger.org News and commentary from a Biblical world view on current events, top stories, social trends and political and religious events. Thu, 13 Jan 2022 06:27:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://adventmessenger.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-IMG_1120-32x32.jpeg Timothy Perenich DC, MA | Advent Messenger https://adventmessenger.org 32 32 A Brief Historical Sketch of Adventist Vaccine Hesitancy https://adventmessenger.org/a-brief-historical-sketch-of-adventist-vaccine-hesitancy/ https://adventmessenger.org/a-brief-historical-sketch-of-adventist-vaccine-hesitancy/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:26:43 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=13578 By Timothy R. Perenich DC Today the Adventist community, through its publications and hierarchy, is decidedly pro-vaccine mandates. What surprises most people is how this wasn’t so in the early days of the church. Until about 1915, the leading publications spoke with a diversity of opinions on smallpox vaccination—this was the main vaccine that existed […]

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The post Abortion and Freedom of Conscience first appeared on Advent Messenger.]]> Appetite and Salvation: Is There a Link or Legalism? https://adventmessenger.org/appetite-and-salvation-is-there-a-link-or-legalism/ Sat, 22 Dec 2018 05:16:59 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=3904 by Timothy Perenich DC, MA Linking diet to salvation is controversial. For some it is an affront to the gospel for others it is an extension of grace. However, in publications like the Review some have made it a point to stress the importance of belief over the restraint of appetite in regard to Christian […]

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