By Pastor Scott Hausrath North Loup SDB Church, NE Is a part of your life feeling stark, or cold, or even dead? Perhaps your marriage, though it began on a warm spring day, is now feeling the bitter chill of winter. Perhaps your job is no longer the source of excitement and joy that it used to be. Maybe even your relationship with God lacks the fire that it...

Mar 20, 2019

By Sarina Villalpando Maranatha Community Church, Colton, CA Focus is vital in our Christian walk, but most of the time it is the hardest thing to do. Lately I’ve been very bad at focusing on pretty much everything, but most importantly my walk in faith and putting everything to God. When you get caught up in life, it’s hard—you forget the important and to put...

Mar 20, 2019

CROSS exists to mobilize a generation to lay down their lives in pursuit of the glory of Jesus Christ among all the unreached and unengaged peoples of the world. Twenty-four people traveled with Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church to Louisville, Kentucky, January 2-5, 2019, for this missions-focused conference for young adults. What a blessing it was! • 7,500 in...

By Bethany Crandall At first it seemed a little counterintuitive; to not just mention, but to spend generous amounts of time on the local church at a missions conference geared towards sending young people out into the world. But as the mentions of the local church grew in number and culminated in a sermon by Trip Lee, I realized that in my love, research, and...

Mar 20, 2019

By Janet Thorngate, Chairman, SDB Council on History People sleuthing their family history often discover that in the process of building that endless genealogy chart, the quest for illusive details draws them deeper and deeper into an ancestor’s world. Suddenly they are “into history” (though they never “liked history”) and the name on the chart becomes a real...