Oct 24, 2019
By Tyler Chroniger By the title, you can assume one of two things. You can assume I am referring to an old Verizon commercial or you can assume that I am speaking to you directly. This works in how we listen to God our Father’s voice. I am sure that at times He is sitting on His throne asking this very question of us. Can we hear Him? What does His voice sound...
Oct 24, 2019
By Cheri Appel Start with Prayer. Practice Listening. Years ago, I heard a speaker talk about hearing God. She emphasized listening for His voice. She directed us to pray about it, sincerely and often. Thereafter, driving to work each morning, I asked the Holy Spirit to help me hear my Father’s voice, recognize it, and know what He wanted to do through me (John...
Oct 24, 2019
A summary of Sabbath morning’s message By Nicholas J. Kersten Text: 2 Kings 6:8-23 When I was asked to preach on the topic of identity by our Conference President, my first impulse as a preacher was to search for cultural references I could use for an introduction. Because I’m a child of the late 1980s and early 1990s, I remembered many seminal moments from my...
Sep 25, 2019
by Daniel Lovelace Many of you have known me as I’ve grown up. Perhaps I served with your church in SCSC, maybe we’re Facebook friends, or we’ve had a conversation at Conference sometime. But what I’d say has been less known about me is that for the majority of my life, while I may have given a nice appearance on the outside, I lived a life weighed down by a...
Sep 25, 2019
By Lance Greene The Imposter Syndrome is feeling inadequate to do the job we are given and more specifically feeling inadequate to fulfill God’s calling on our life. I want to start by talking about an interview Lisa Bevere had with Risen Magazine. Lisa was asked about the dynamics of her childhood and I’m going to paraphrase her response: My parents were...
Sep 25, 2019
By Dennis Coleman I had a lot of fun at this year’s Conference, even though as stage manager the week turned into a sort of working vacation. But that’s okay. It was an honor to serve our Lord and to serve those of you who attended. Things were not perfect on stage (with overlapping practice schedules and with having to fit a piano, organ, choir, symphony-sized...