Jan 28, 2020

By Dennis Coleman I admit I was a little bothered by the fact that the church business meeting was scheduled to coincide with the Eagles-Cowboys football game. In Philly two things matter—winning championships and beating Dallas. So I was a bit surprised when a church deacon began questioning me about my checking the score during our December business meeting....

Jan 28, 2020

By Rev. Don A. Sanford [Editor’s note: Given the theme of the publication this month, we have elected to print this previously unpublished work from the beloved (and now departed) SDB Historian Don A. Sanford.] Few people in colonial times left as complete a record of the times and families as did Samuel Hubbard. Much of his journal was later used by such...

Jan 28, 2020

By Pastor Rick Crouch One of the reasons that I majored in journalism in college is because I wanted to get as far away from calculus as I could. Math is not my friend, and so by majoring in journalism, I was able to take easier classes like Logic to satisfy the math requirements. Whether we realize it or not, most of us use logic every day—especially the...

Jan 24, 2020

Seventh Day Baptists are somewhat unique in our Sabbath belief in that we keep the seventh day Sabbath as motivated primarily out of our love for God and our desire to be in the blessings prescribed to that holy day. Our Statement of Belief says this about the Sabbath: We believe that the Sabbath of the Bible, the seventh day of the week, is sacred time, a gift...

Rev. Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History In his recent book, “You Found Me,” evangelism researcher Rick Richardson, with the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College, charts and interprets recent evidence about those people around us who do not believe in Jesus Christ. Contrary to some studies well-publicized, Richardson believes...