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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Jan 22, 2016
by Rachael Osborn SDB Church of Boulder, CO I myself am not perfect and though I may not look it sometimes I feel worthless like there’s nothing inside there’s something I try to hide sometimes I don’t feel alive I just go through hope I make it and when people ask how I’m doing I lie, I say I’m fine when my mind is a mess and I just...
By Rod Henry, Assistant Pastor Next Step Christian Church (an SDB church in Thornton, CO) We want to be loved by the world around us. We buy things, drive things, wear things, and especially say things to appeal to others. We smell a certain way on our hair, a different way on our face and neck, and yet a different way under our arms. A part of this is to be...
Jan 22, 2016
Retired Pastor Profile: Victor W. Skaggs Victor W. Skaggs (Pastor Vic) was born in Plainfield, NJ, on October 5, 1918. He graduated from Teaneck High School in 1936. After high school, he attended Salem College, graduating in 1940. Before graduation, he married Ardale Coon on June 25, 1939. Ardale graduated from this life on February 2, 2001. Pastor Vic has...
By Daniel Lovelace Metro Atlanta SDB Church I don’t remember all the details of it, but I had a dream last night that Jesus was standing nearby. He would speak a word, and what He spoke would appear into existence. He did it with a few different things — one thing He called for was a horse. When I saw it appear, I understood it wasn’t just a regular horse, but...
Jan 22, 2016
by Kevin Butler Milton, WI Looking forward to setting foot on the stage at Wesley Chapel this August, it will mark 40 years since I started attending Houghton College. As the bald little character Vizzini said in the movie Princess Bride, “In-con-THEEV-able!!” I became a Houghton Highlander in 1976, transferring as a sophomore from...
Jan 22, 2016
By Nicholas J. Kersten Beginning in 1973, the SDB Historical Society has honored Seventh Day Baptists who have made significant contributions to the preservation and understanding of Seventh Day Baptist history by the presentation of an award: one of two traveling golden-headed walking canes, which have long been in the Historical Society’s archives, and a...
By Barb Green, Parish Nurse Milton, WI Self care is essential every day for everyone regardless of age or job situation. Neglecting it can exact a high cost in illness and fatigue. Self care carries major health benefits. Deuteronomy 5:12-14 reminds us, “Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord our God; you...
Jan 22, 2016
By Clinton R. Brown For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. — Luke 9:24 Sitting with the Seventh Day Baptist leaders in Bujumbura, Burundi, we talked and prayed about the struggles of doing ministry in their country. Neither the pastor that came with me nor I had little that compared...