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, 2017
by Susie Fox Pataskala SDB Church, OH The annual Seventh Day Baptist Appalachian Association Women’s Retreat was held at Camp Joy the weekend of September 22-24, 2017. There were a total of 31 women attending the retreat from SDB churches in Alabama, Georgia, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The...
Oct 26, 2017
by Michaella Osborn SDB Church, Boulder, CO I listen to A LOT of podcasts. They are a great way to fill your commute to and from school or work. Podcasts can also be a creative way to add some Jesus time to your hectic day. Here are my top 5 spiritual podcasts to listen to this fall. The Relevant podcast. Join this goofy ensemble cast (including...
Oct 26, 2017
The Connecting Church — Milton Seventh Day Baptist welcomed around 150 SDBs for the North Central Association meetings on October 6 and 7. Attendees came from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The theme for the meetings was Revival: “Times of Refreshing in the LORD.” Friday night, Pastor JR Shick of the White Cloud, MI, SDB church spoke on “Whatever...
Oct 26, 2017
by Pastor JR Shick Keith Edwin Shick JR, known by family and close friends as JR, has been the Pastor of the White Cloud Seventh Day Baptist Church, MI, since 2014. JR has been married to his wife Sarah for thirteen years and has two children, daughter Kashya, 11, and son Keith III, 8. One of the key reasons we do not “GO and DO” work for the Kingdom is the...
Rob Appel Executive Director In 2015 the General Council shared with us the SDB Vision Map. In this we had our MISSION, FOCUS, CORE VALUES, and KINGDOM CULTURE laid out for us. The FOCUS, or what we do, states this: “We must develop and support new and existing leaders who will work through healthy local churches. Leaders include pastors, as well...
Oct 26, 2017
Xander Post Shiloh SDB Church It’s hard for me to forgive sometimes. I guess it depends on what the other person has done — but shouldn’t depend on that. Not too long ago, someone hurt me. It doesn’t matter whether it actually affected me in any way, but what I did about it matters. I chose to forgive the person. In the moment, I tried...
by Rev. Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History The Reformers were committed to taking the Bible as their only authority, and to the Gospel of salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, for the glory of God alone. These convictions changed the world forever. is widely held and celebrated that Martin Luther kicked...
Oct 26, 2017
8th in a series by Assistant Pastor Philip Lawton Seventh Day Baptist Church of Shiloh, NJ Check out Phil’s blog at contemplatingkenosis.blogspot.com When we recite the part of the Lord’s Prayer about forgiveness, we often focus on the first half: forgive us our sins. We gloss over the second half about forgiving others. It’s understandable....