Dec 21, 2017

By Katie Brown “Garbage In, Garbage Out.” It’s a phrase that was thrown around a lot by youth pastors and camp counselors when I was a teenager. Even now, the saying reminds me of campfire smoke, burnt marshmallows, early morning Bible studies, and fellow teenagers rolling their eyes. At the time, the lessons were on secular messages in popular movies,...

Rob Appel Executive Director Last month I wrote about the benefits of having a Conference of churches, the Seventh Day Baptist Conference of churches! The fact that we can reach further, and do more, when we have a larger pot of spiritual gifts, experiences, perspectives, and resources for Kingdom work, is a huge reason for the pooling of our resources. I...

Dec 21, 2017

By Clinton R. Brown Summary A lesson to illustrate that obedient servants follow the instruction of their master, and we have all already received specific instructions from Jesus. Introduction Good morning, young people! Today we are going to talk about Kings and Knights. Has anyone ever heard of a knight? Knights were the brave and loyal defenders of the...

Dec 21, 2017

Rev. Carl Greene Hebron SDB Church, PA Dinner conversation tends to raise interesting questions. For instance, you ask for the salt and pepper shakers, and your daughter asks you, “Where does black pepper come from? Does it come from a bush or a tree?” These questions might be a challenge for some; not so for this parent. After all, I was raised in a farming...

by Joel Osborn, Milton, WI As Communication Director of the Milton Seventh Day Baptist, I was given the task of updating our web site. The current web site was created more than a decade ago — so it was dated and built on an older web platform that made it somewhere between difficult and impossible to update. The site had been created by a local company and we...