Feb 27, 2020
By Damian Greene Do you have a smell that quickly moves you to another time and place? Is it a pie baking, a forest after a rainstorm, a turkey in the oven, or a pine tree just after being cut? For me, it’s the smell of bug spray. Any bug spray can act as a portal to take me back in time to another place. It is loud and exciting, and young people far outnumber...
Feb 27, 2020
By Carl Greene, Executive Director I grew up in the Berlin Seventh Day Baptist Church in upstate New York. There are some interesting historical pieces from my fair town of Berlin (total population less than 2,000). According to some, Berlin was the world’s leading exporter of maple sugar during World War I (amazing how sugar rationing and a railroad siding can...
Jan 28, 2020
By Dennis Coleman I admit I was a little bothered by the fact that the church business meeting was scheduled to coincide with the Eagles-Cowboys football game. In Philly two things matter—winning championships and beating Dallas. So I was a bit surprised when a church deacon began questioning me about my checking the score during our December business meeting....
Jan 28, 2020
By Pastor Rick Crouch One of the reasons that I majored in journalism in college is because I wanted to get as far away from calculus as I could. Math is not my friend, and so by majoring in journalism, I was able to take easier classes like Logic to satisfy the math requirements. Whether we realize it or not, most of us use logic every day—especially the...
By Rev. Dr. Dale D. Thorngate How does your belief about the Bible and the leading of the Holy Spirit influence what you believe about the Sabbath? I think the response of most Seventh Day Baptists to that question would be more biographical than theological. For me, that is certainly the case. As a lifetime SDB I can’t separate the Sabbath truth from my own...
Dec 27, 2019
By Levi Bond I have a coworker who relieves stress by playing with paper airplanes during breaks. One day last week he made a large one out of a sheet from an old desk calendar. He tossed it across the room. It cleared my desk and then nosedived to the floor. He told me about a childhood experience when his dad had a small airplane years ago. He would go for a...