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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The global coronavirus pandemic continues to affect the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of millions of North Americans. Developing and maintaining healthy leaders and...
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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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Apr 23, 2014
Guyana: The Next Hundred Years by Clinton R. Brown “Using the dead as our seeds will not yield life.” Thiswas the message I took away from listening to speakers at the 100th Anniversary celebration meetings of Seventh Day Baptists in Guyana, South America. The closing Sabbath service at the Bona Ventura SDB Church on the Pomeroon River brought in...
…as we forgive others By Seth Osborn I’ve never thought of forgiveness as an especially difficult thing to do. Someone does something wrong, they realize it, they say they’re sorry, and the people that were harmed forgive them. Yes, there are times where the offending party does something particularly awful (some of these cases involving illegal acts), and...
Apr 23, 2014
O be careful little eyes… by Gordon Lawton In Mark 7:14-16, Jesus taught that uncleanness comes from inside, not outside a person. He explained in verses 20-23, “What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy,...
Correcting Mistakes, Part 2 by Oscar Burdick Note from Nick: This is the second of three articles begun last month correcting significant errors published about English SDB history found in Seventh Day Baptists in Europe and America, Volume 1 and 2, which was published by the General Conference in 1910. We remind you that a document containing corrections...
Giving a Voice to Your Choice! by Steven James In Joshua 24:22, we find that after you and I make the choice to serve the Lord, we need to give our choice a voice, just as God’s people did. Let’s explore the whole context of this memory verse, from v. 14 through v. 28, and see what kind of a voice we can give to our choice. A Voice of...
Apr 23, 2014
The Well by Katrina Goodrich Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. The water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:13-14 NIV) The story of the woman at the well is a popular passage. Typically when I’ve...
Hope, Joy, and Peace be with you! by Executive Director, Rob Appel “I am feeling overwhelmed.” Those were the words I used on this rainy March morning when I spoke with Ron Ochs, our Financial Officer. Ron simply said, “One step at a time.” Do you ever feel like giving up? Do you feel like your situation is so hopeless that the only thing you can do is...
Healing Sabbath by Scott Morris, MD (The following is adapted from “Healing Sabbath” by Rev. G. Scott Morris, MD. Found in the Church Health Reader, Fall 2013.) “Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy” is one of the Ten Commandments. Some are old enough to remember when nothing much happened on Sabbath in observance of this commandment....