Jan 22, 2016
by Kevin Butler Milton, WI Looking forward to setting foot on the stage at Wesley Chapel this August, it will mark 40 years since I started attending Houghton College. As the bald little character Vizzini said in the movie Princess Bride, “In-con-THEEV-able!!” I became a Houghton Highlander in 1976, transferring as a sophomore from...
Jan 22, 2016
By Nicholas J. Kersten Beginning in 1973, the SDB Historical Society has honored Seventh Day Baptists who have made significant contributions to the preservation and understanding of Seventh Day Baptist history by the presentation of an award: one of two traveling golden-headed walking canes, which have long been in the Historical Society’s archives, and a...
By Barb Green, Parish Nurse Milton, WI Self care is essential every day for everyone regardless of age or job situation. Neglecting it can exact a high cost in illness and fatigue. Self care carries major health benefits. Deuteronomy 5:12-14 reminds us, “Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord our God; you...
Jan 22, 2016
By Clinton R. Brown For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. — Luke 9:24 Sitting with the Seventh Day Baptist leaders in Bujumbura, Burundi, we talked and prayed about the struggles of doing ministry in their country. Neither the pastor that came with me nor I had little that compared...
Jan 22, 2016
By Rev. Steven James Verona SDB Church It’s interesting that our word “disciple” contains the idea of “discipline.” It stands to follow that if we are to follow Jesus Christ — if we say we are His disciples — that discipline must be a part of the experience. By discipline, I am focusing on the idea, not of correction, but of commitment — of a determined focus...
“My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?” Marleigh Fiacco Verona SDB Church, NY One of the few times I actually felt like God was carrying me was this past October. My depression had come back and my life seemed to be spinning out of control. It got to a point where it took all that I had just to get out of bed in the morning. I was already out of energy. I...