Apr 23, 2014
Winning at Losing by Leanne Lippincott-Wuerthele In Psalm 139:14, King David wrote, “I praise you [God] because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” (NIV). Commenting on this verse, S. Michael Houdman [founder, president, and CEO of Got Questions Ministries] wrote, “The context of this verse is the...
Apr 23, 2014
Guyana: The Next Hundred Years by Clinton R. Brown “Using the dead as our seeds will not yield life.” Thiswas the message I took away from listening to speakers at the 100th Anniversary celebration meetings of Seventh Day Baptists in Guyana, South America. The closing Sabbath service at the Bona Ventura SDB Church on the Pomeroon River brought in...
…as we forgive others By Seth Osborn I’ve never thought of forgiveness as an especially difficult thing to do. Someone does something wrong, they realize it, they say they’re sorry, and the people that were harmed forgive them. Yes, there are times where the offending party does something particularly awful (some of these cases involving illegal acts), and...
Apr 23, 2014
O be careful little eyes… by Gordon Lawton In Mark 7:14-16, Jesus taught that uncleanness comes from inside, not outside a person. He explained in verses 20-23, “What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy,...
Correcting Mistakes, Part 2 by Oscar Burdick Note from Nick: This is the second of three articles begun last month correcting significant errors published about English SDB history found in Seventh Day Baptists in Europe and America, Volume 1 and 2, which was published by the General Conference in 1910. We remind you that a document containing corrections...
Giving a Voice to Your Choice! by Steven James In Joshua 24:22, we find that after you and I make the choice to serve the Lord, we need to give our choice a voice, just as God’s people did. Let’s explore the whole context of this memory verse, from v. 14 through v. 28, and see what kind of a voice we can give to our choice. A Voice of...