By Kevin Butler Conference President 2021 Australian journalist Matthew Knott is a 32-year-old U.S. correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald. He was in New York City earlier...
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By Carl Greene Executive Director If your answer to this inquiry about a “Questionable Life” is no, then your church may not be healthy. Really. A questionable life is necessary...
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The global coronavirus pandemic continues to affect the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of millions of North Americans. Developing and maintaining healthy leaders and...
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Focus on Missions By Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society Jesus has a master plan for transforming the world. His plan is that through the power of the...
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Sep 23, 2013
Walking in Humility (Micah 6:8) by Pastor Haywood Floyd This short message was shared on Monday morning at our 2013 Conference in Colorado Springs. It got many people thinking and talking. Our Conference theme this year is “Following in His Footsteps.” The verse that was selected for me was Micah 6:8— “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what...
Sep 23, 2013
Walking in Integrity (Proverbs 10:9) by Pastor Shay Rankhorn To all of you who misread the schedule and thought you were getting an eight-minute massage, I do apologize. Maybe next year we can get that on the Conference schedule! Several of us have been asked to speak this week with the challenge to keep our messages to eight minutes. Wow. Asking a...
Aug 26, 2013
Attitude in the Altitude by Kevin Butler Thomas Edison once said, “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.” SDBs once again had the opportunity to gather for our annual Conference sessions. Thanks to much hard work and Spirit-led planning by President Ralph Mackintosh, we most certainly experienced a week of good fortune! God...
New Members Alfred Station, NY Kenneth Chroniger, pastor Joined after baptism Madge Chroniger Joined after testimony Brad Morrison Colleen Morrison Raritan Valley, NJ Melvin Stephan, pastor Joined by letter Gabriel Graffius Joined after baptism Adrienne Graffius Obituaries Colflesh.—Georgia (Green) Colflesh, 80, of Sedalia, Mo., died on January...
Aug 26, 2013
“Walking in Love” by Rev. David Taylor “And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.” (2 John 1:6, NASB) God says, quite simply, that love is keeping His commandment. That brings love out of the indefinite into...
Ministering through Hope by Christine Davis and Debbie Hargett Singing, praying, laughing, learning, listening and crying. It all happened! Women from all over North America gathered to celebrate all that God is doing, spend time together, learn and encourage one another, and strengthen the threads that tie us together in fellowship. Christine Davis and...
Do It Yourself Or, “The Great Escape” by Executive Director, Rob Appel In September 2012 I took a spiritual retreat in the Rocky Mountains and was wondering how God was going to speak to me during this special time. On the morning of September 27th, in the lodge of Camp Paul Hummel, God spoke to me through an old familiar book. I picked up a copy of My...
Aug 26, 2013
Adopting a Wartime Lifestyle by Clinton R. Brown Ralph D. Winter writes about the Queen Mary ocean liner in his article, Reconsecration. The ship is now a floating museum that contrasts the opulent trappings of its use as a luxury liner with its austere decor of a WWII trans-Atlantic troop transport ship. The contrast expresses the different mindsets...