Annie Lloyd Alfred Station SDB Church, NY Stories are everything. They help us to understand this convoluted and complicated world. Everyone is rooting for the protagonist, God, and opposing the antagonist, Satan. There are so many other characters that fall into this story: like you and me. At the beginning, all the...
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By Kevin Butler Conference President 2021 Australian journalist Matthew Knott is a 32-year-old U.S. correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald. He was in New York City earlier...
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By Carl Greene Executive Director If your answer to this inquiry about a “Questionable Life” is no, then your church may not be healthy. Really. A questionable life is necessary...
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Focus on Missions By Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society Jesus has a master plan for transforming the world. His plan is that through the power of the...
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A Pure Gift!
Feb 25, 2015
Bill Probasco SDB Conference President 2015 The month of March is a changing time. We’re heading out of winter and starting to look toward a spring thaw. Yet as I write this, the Northeast is bracing for a major snow storm. My state’s governor has declared a State of Emergency; roads are being treated for icy conditions;...
Ordination of Pastor David Fox
Feb 25, 2015
Rev. John J. Pethtel Director of Church Development & Pastoral Services SpringsLife Church (Colorado Springs, CO) celebrated the ordination of Pastor David Fox to the gospel ministry on February 7, 2015 at 3:30 pm. Pastor David’s ordination council was held during Mid-Continent Association meetings on October 11, 2014 with...
Maturity is Leading by Following
Feb 25, 2015
Rev. Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.” — the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:1 What is the purpose of our lives in Christ? What is it that God desires of us after He has saved us by His grace? If we believe the Apostle Paul, the goal of the Christian life after our...
Doesn’t He Know?
Feb 25, 2015
Daniel Lovelace Metro Atlanta SDB Church “Shut your mouth, the Teacher doesn’t want to waste his time with sinful fools like you!” Doesn’t he know who he is? I hear a harsh response to someone on the side of the road. I’m not quite sure what’s happening as I stumble through the middle of a crowd following the Teacher on his stop...
Clueless Together
Feb 25, 2015
Pastor Scott Hausrath North Loup SDB Church, NE In this world, things don’t always go the way we think they “should” go. A child should not get a brain tumor; a 23-year-old should not have a stroke; the son of God should not be nailed to a piece of wood. We make these assumptions because that’s the way our minds work. In order to...
Before the Cross: Prepared For the Work
Feb 25, 2015
Pastor Matt Olson Berlin SDB Church, NY I am, by nature, a procrastinator. My motto is: Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until next week. I justify my actions (or inaction, as the case may be) with the misguided idea that I work best under pressure. The truth, of course, is that rushed work is never my best work, and so over the years I’ve made...
A Way Has Been Prepared
Feb 25, 2015
Focus on Missions Clinton R. Brown As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: (and recounted in the Gospel of Mark) “BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER AHEAD OF YOU, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY; THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, ‘MAKE READY THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT.’” Isaiah 40:3 For centuries, Seventh Day...