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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Oct 26, 2018
By Nicholas J. Kersten For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. —2 Corinthians 10:3-4 For most of my life, I have been fascinated by military tactics. Beginning around my early teen years, I became...
Oct 26, 2018
Staying on Assignment On September 15, 2018, in a worship celebration lasting almost five hours, the Miami SDB Church along with many other friends celebrated thirty years of service by Andrew Samuels as pastor. There were many guests who had the opportunity to speak on the theme of “Staying on Assignment.” These included Pastors Garfield Miller and Noel...
Oct 26, 2018
By Katrina Goodrich One out of five women in America will be sexually assaulted during the course of their lifetime. If we narrow the spectrum down to those under the age of 18 the statistic becomes one in four. And 63% of sexual assaults are never reported to the police. There are so many women in pain, suffering because of their victimization and...
Oct 26, 2018
by Kim Merchant One of the SDB Historical Library’s challenges, faced by many specialized libraries, is how to make our materials available to online researchers. In the olden days, researchers expected to travel to the library, pull out a card catalog drawer and rifle through index cards to search for their subjects. In these modern times, researchers...
Oct 26, 2018
By Willy Villalpando Stop. Breathe in. Count to 5. Breathe out. Relax your shoulders. Close your eyes. Breathe in. Count. Breathe out. Does anyone else get caught up in all the things you’ve said yes to? Like you finally finish one thing and before you can take a breath, four more things need your immediate attention? Come on, I can’t be the only one...
An Open Letter To SDB Young Adults Dear Young Missionaries, Hello! How are you all doing? I pray the past few months since Conference have been treating all of you well! I know that many of you were quite ready to get stuff done in the wake of Conference and I hope we’ve all had the opportunity to do just that! Now, I want to specifically talk to the Young...
Barb Green, Parish Nurse Unless you have had a kidney stone, you have probably given little thought to your kidneys, even though they are vital to your overall health. Most of us have two kidneys each about the size of a fist, located on either side of the spine at the lowest level of the rib cage. Their major function is to remove waste products and...
By Marqueta Aiken Philadelphia Seventh Day Baptist Church It is no surprise that sickness and disease can originate in a body that has a spirit which is dead. We know that sin causes spiritual death and separates us from God. We know all have sinned… We live in a world of sin. Until we shed this earthly body to reside in Heaven, we know that all who accept...