Dec 22, 2016
The Lord’s Prayer by Phil Lawton Our Father is the first in a series about The Lord’s Prayer written by Pastor Phil Lawton from the Seventh Day Baptist Chruch of Shiloh, NJ. Check out Phil’s blog at contemplatingkenosis.blogspot.com Our Father… These first two words set the stage for understanding the rest of the Lord’s Prayer. Every week, all...
Dec 22, 2016
by Elianna Chroniger SDB Church Alfred Station, NY In 1991, the Alfred Station Seventh Day Baptist Church got a new pastor. Now, 25 years later we are celebrating his ministry to our church. On September 10, 2016, the church took time to remember all of the things Rev. Dr. Kenneth Chroniger has done for his church and community. A reception, including a slide...
Nov 28, 2016
By Mike Parker I write stream of consciousness poetry. Some call it slam poetry. After I wrote this one about Christmas, it had a lot of heaven; not enough earth. So I added passages from my Viet Nam journals. I embedded their prose between the lines of rhyme trying to seize the essence of Christmas Day without getting in the way of God who made it! If you, the...
Nov 28, 2016
by Donna VanHorn I’m a visual person. Right now, I’m imagining a picture of the Bethlehem manger, overlaid with the shadow of a Roman cross. Only God knows whether the infant Jesus in those early months of His earthly life understood that it would end at the cross. Scriptures tell us He was committed to His Father’s plan from adolescence forward. And He lived...
by Rev. Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History “…Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men…” — Matthew 2:16 (ESV) This time each...
Nov 28, 2016
by Pastor Scott Hausrath North Loup SDB Church, NE What bothered Marcy so much wasn’t the fact that she didn’t get the female lead in her school’s Holiday play. After all, she knew that her own voice wasn’t as strong or beautiful as Laurie Berman’s. Marcy had to admit that Laurie really did deserve the role of Mrs. Claus in the Arlington Middle School...