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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Feb 22, 2013
“Be a Timothy, Pursue a Paul” by Dusty Mackintosh Thornton, Colorado God gave me an incredible gift. I am writing to make you jealous. More about that later. I was studying 2 Timothy (you know, the Bible) and I was struck by something odd. The advice, the encouragement and the teaching were all familiar to me, but my image of Timothy suddenly shifted....
Feb 22, 2013
Let’s Do Blunch! by Pastor Matthew Olson Berlin, N.Y. On my office wall there is a plaque that reads, “The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also” (2 Timothy 2:2, NASB). I first memorized that verse in the early ’90s while preparing to teach a...
Jan 24, 2013
Standing For God— The Hardship of Service by Executive Director Rob Appel In his book, My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers responds to the passage found in 2 Corinthians 12:15, “And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.” Chambers’ response is called, “The Destitution of...
Jan 24, 2013
Worried? Stressed? Try this… by Seth Osborn I’ve been reflecting on the fact that I’ve already finished up the first semester of my 11th grade year. This is pretty big: I’m more than halfway done with my high school career. After three more semesters, I’m going to be off to college. That sounds like a long time when I say it, but thinking back, it...
Jan 24, 2013
Church Membership: The Precious Gift of Belonging by Jeanne Yurke, Boise, Idaho Member at Raritan Valley SDB Church In Bridgewater, New Jersey The late Don Sanford used to say that there is no such thing as “a lone Sabbath-keeper,” because Seventh Day Baptists are a covenant people. Every SDB is part of a covenant fellowship, a local church. Moving many...
Jan 24, 2013
Will You Pray With Me? By Andrew J. Camenga For the last year, I’ve been praying that God would grant opportunities to speak His Good News into the lives of people who don’t yet know Him. The obvious result in my life is a growing conviction that this needs to be my prayer right now. God has brought passages of Scripture to my mind in new and very...
Jan 24, 2013
Closing the Back Door by Bill Shobe Dodge Center, Minn. One of the saddest occurrences in the life of a congregation is to realize that someone we had hoped would become a vital part of our church life has “disappeared.” We look for them on a Sabbath day and find they are not sitting in their usual spot. Then we discover that it’s been weeks since anyone...