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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Aug 29, 2020
John 1:1 and Hebrews 1:1-3 By Matthew Butler A few months ago, after one of our worship gatherings at Grace Point Church, I spotted an old acquaintance who used to attend our church. He had been a part of Grace Point and was in fact an elder candidate shortly before we arrived in Las Vegas. Our time together had been just a matter of months before he was...
Aug 29, 2020
Everyday Theology Applications for Questions of the Faith By Pastor Phil Lawton A Christian Response to a Grieving Country In 1969, a woman by the name of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote a book called On Death and Dying. In the book she talked about what she called the stages of grief. She argued that as a terminally ill patient grows closer to death their grief...
Aug 26, 2020
by Carl Greene Executive Director When my family and I moved to Wisconsin, I wanted to check out our local post office. So, I drove down this road on the way there and got to a sign which read, “Road Closed.” I got out of my vehicle and sat down in front of that sign, and I wept, and have sat there ever since. I hope that’s not the story, right? I had to turn...
Reprinted from The Sabbath Recorder dated September 10, 1945. Reprinted in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII. A CALL TO THANKS AND PRAYER The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace. —Psalm 29:11 Now that the Peace is Signed… LET US GIVE THANKS Let us give thanks to God for: 1. He has guided...
Jun 23, 2020
By Dennis Coleman Odd. Strange. They call it, “The new normal,” but a pandemic and stay at home orders are anything but normal. I’ve obeyed the order from the government, as I suspect most, if not all, of you have done as well. I’ve pretty much only left my property to buy groceries, wearing my bandana mask as I go. I did sneak out once to...
Jun 23, 2020
By Tim Smothers My mind goes back to when I was 39 years old. I was young and felt that I could do it all—I was invincible. Then I turned 40 and those feelings of invincibility ceased, and I found myself praying that I would just have the strength to make it through the day. Back then I could eat what I wanted when I wanted, I could...
Jun 23, 2020
By Andrew J. Camenga God has big plans for his church. These plans include us. He is actively working in the world to make one people out of many groups—to bring together individuals from every tribe, language, people, and nation. I can’t tell you why he chose to include us beyond the basic reality that he loves us and wants what is best for us. When he called...
Jun 23, 2020
By Pastor Rick Crouch Last year before we left our old building, we discovered that there had been an unwelcome guest living underneath the church. Actually, this guest had been living underneath the platform at the front of the sanctuary and might have been for years—yet we had no clue about this unwanted guest until a terrible odor gave him away. Grace was...