Jun 24, 2013
A Glimpse of Eternity by Eric Rudert We at the White Cloud, Mich., Seventh Day Baptist Church lost our beloved pastor, Bernie Wethington, to cancer on March 19, 2013. (See the May 2013 SR obituary.) Please keep his family and our church family in your prayers during this time of transition. Bernie was a great leader, challenging us to...
Jun 24, 2013
Look after the orphans… by Katrina Goodrich “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” (James 1:27) Rather famously, an expert in the law asks Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus replies with the story...
Jun 24, 2013
Lucille Sunby: A shining example by Leanne Lippincott-Wuerthele Although many are left unnamed, the Bible mentions 188 women. These include female leaders, prominent queens, and prophetesses. Monique Provance, in a research paper discussing biblical women, wrote about six females who displayed positive character traits—Judith, Esther, Ruth, Deborah,...
Jun 24, 2013
What’s Your Experience with God? by Ralph Mackintosh When I laid out the challenge for Seventh Day Baptists this year, there were four phases: read Experiencing God by Henry and Richard Blackaby, spend time in prayer seeking where God was already working, join Him in His work, and share with your fellow SDBs your experience. Some of you will have...
Jun 24, 2013
Who gets the last shot? by Kevin Butler Five “Most Valuable Player” awards. Six NBA Championships. Six Finals MVP awards. Fourteen-time All Star. Ten scoring titles. With numbers and accomplishments like this, many would call Michael Jordan the greatest basketball player, ever. And certainly Michael Jordan thought so. Even when he wasn’t playing...
Jun 24, 2013
Who Speaks for the Dead? by Nick Kersten, Librarian-historian “We have gathered here to recognize the closure of the DeRuyter Seventh Day Baptist Church. We remember with thanksgiving the blessing that this church has been, by the grace of God and the enabling of Christ, to this community for nearly 200 years, and to us individually and personally...