Feb 23, 2018
By Clint R. Brown Maybe not this week or next, but if Jesus’ return does not preempt your time here, then your body in this broken world will fail and you will stop being counted among the living. We often try to pretend otherwise despite the regular reminders and evidence around us. Almost no one in the billions of people that have come before us made it out...
Feb 22, 2018
By Rev. Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History “How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the...
Feb 22, 2018
By Donna S. Bond Shiloh SDB Church, NJ “I could wring that man’s neck,” I said TO my husband (not ABOUT him) in mid-December. Sometime in October, George Pettit, a senior member of the Shiloh, NJ, church, had told me God was leading him to give a children’s message and he needed my help. Knowing that I make patchwork dogs — named “Cretora dogs” in memory of my...
Feb 22, 2018
by Pastor Dave Stall When I agreed to serve as conference president this year, it was on the condition that it would be a family experience. This was NOT going to be a season where extra ministry and travel would take me away from my family. Every trip would include my wife or the entire family. We have stuck with that plan and the experience has been great!...
Feb 22, 2018
By Donald Graffius On Sabbath January 27, 2018, the Shiloh Church recognized Dr. George Cruzan for his 42 years of service as Trustee and as President (12 years) of the SDB Memorial Fund. On behalf of the Memorial Board, President Donald Graffius thanked the church for the many “seeds” planted with the Memorial Fund over the years. The church and its members...
by Tim Challies I have asked Tim Challies about sharing his blog from February 2017. I have found it very profound and needed in today’s “touchy/feely” “say-whatever-you-want” society. His article is too long for one of our SR articles so I have done my best to condense it. For the full blog go to...