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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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 Rev. Don A. Sanford [Editor’s note: Given the theme of the publication this month, we have elected to print this previously unpublished work from the beloved (and now departed) SDB Historian Don A. Sanford.] Few people in colonial times left as complete a record of the times and families as did Samuel Hubbard. Much of his journal was later used by such...
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...
Jan 24, 2020
Seventh Day Baptists are somewhat unique in our Sabbath belief in that we keep the seventh day Sabbath as motivated primarily out of our love for God and our desire to be in the blessings prescribed to that holy day. Our Statement of Belief says this about the Sabbath: We believe that the Sabbath of the Bible, the seventh day of the week, is sacred time, a gift...
Rev. Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History In his recent book, “You Found Me,” evangelism researcher Rick Richardson, with the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College, charts and interprets recent evidence about those people around us who do not believe in Jesus Christ. Contrary to some studies well-publicized, Richardson believes...
It was the first day of the new school year. The young children starting Kindergarten were excited. Miss Allen was excited, too. It was her first day of teaching. She greeted each child with a happy face. Miss Allen told the class that the first project would be drawing a picture of their favorite thing. Each child was given a large white sheet of paper and a...
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...