Dr. Paul Manuel, Christmas 2013German Seventh Day Baptist Church, Salemville, PA Sometimes the ordinary things we experience can help us appreciate the extraordinary things God does. Over the summer, for example, Linda started feeding a stray female cat that appeared in our yard. As far as we could tell, she did not belong to anyone, and we assumed she sought...
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Can you hear Me now?
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...
Hearing God’s Voice
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...
Conference 2019 Sabbath Worship Message: Just by Your Being You
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...
Intentionality
Oct 24, 2019
By Carl Greene Executive Director Be careful who you travel with. I wish my mother had taught me that lesson more thoroughly. Traveling with Nick Kersten, SDB Director of Education and History, can be…interesting. While one can use “interesting” on a number of levels when traveling with Nick, I want to focus on intentionality and evangelism. Nick had...
Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society Christmas Gift List 2019
Oct 24, 2019
Please consider discussing with your family about adding some of these to your Christmas gift list. Some of our SDB families have made it part of their year-end tradition to select items from our suggested gift list to support the ministry work of our SDB brethren around the world. During this season, let us celebrate the greatness of our Father’s love, with...
The Power of Connection
Oct 24, 2019
Rev. Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History Over the past several years in my work in Christian Education, I have become impressed with two core truths about our work as Seventh Day Baptists in this area. The first truth is that our people and congregations uniformly care deeply about producing mature believers in Jesus Christ. The second truth...
FIX your eyes!
Oct 24, 2019
by Kevin Butler Glaring at me with a no-nonsense look, she asked, “When was your last eye exam?” The Department of Motor Vehicles is not known for its sense of humor. But I still joked, “Um, next week??” I knew that I had botched the vision test to renew my driver’s license. Even after all that studying. Then I remembered, “Oh, I do have my distance glasses...