A Healthy Church

A Healthy Church

Jun 23, 2020

By Andrew J. Camenga God has big plans for his church. These plans include us. He is actively working in the world to make one people out of many groups—to bring together individuals from every tribe, language, people, and nation. I can’t tell you why he chose to include us beyond the basic reality that he loves us and wants what is best for us. When he called...

From Darkness into Light

From Darkness into Light

Jun 23, 2020

By Pastor Rick Crouch Last year before we left our old building, we discovered that there had been an unwelcome guest living underneath the church. Actually, this guest had been living underneath the platform at the front of the sanctuary and might have been for years—yet we had no clue about this unwanted guest until a terrible odor gave him away. Grace was...

Finding Hope

Finding Hope

Jun 23, 2020

By Katrina Goodrich Tragic circumstances tend to make me introspective. This year there’s been plenty of tragedy to go around the entire world affecting its over 7 billion inhabitants. Life, this year, is turning out quite differently than expected—but maybe the interruption to our regularly scheduled lives can teach us something if we listen. Right now the...

Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus

Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus

Jun 23, 2020

By Carl Greene Executive Director         I was probably 8 years old when I asked my grandfather how he plowed a straight line across the field. The field was covered in sod and had no rows to follow to know a straight path. I was amazed by how he could do this—was it some sort of internal compass that develops when you get old? You probably...

We’re All God’s Favorites

We’re All God’s Favorites

Jun 23, 2020

Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society       One of the great joys of my job with the Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society is the enriching experience of working with, sharing with, ministering with, and communicating with people of a variety of ethnicities from six continents in the world. I also feel especially blessed...