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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Nov 1, 2020
By Katrina Goodrich Women’s Society No matter your gender, your socioeconomic status, your tendency to follow rather than to step in the limelight—you’re a leader to someone. It doesn’t matter if you’re standing in the pulpit or in the nursery during the sermon: you are a leader by virtue of your proclamation of Christ because every Christian is called to lead...
Nov 1, 2020
Young Adult Page By Melissa Brown Texarkana SDB Church The other day in my Music Theory 4 class, my professor was going over the parts of a sonata form. He was explaining that the first part of the sonata form is repeated in the last part without changing it much. That repeated section is called a “recapitulation.” The descriptions of the sections made sense...
Nov 1, 2020
by Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society Please consider discussing with your church and family about adding some of these to your end-of-year giving. Some of our SDB families have made it part of their year-end tradition to select items from our suggested gift list to support the ministry work of our SDB brethren around the world. During...
Nov 1, 2020
By Kevin Butler Conference President 2021 While video chatting with our granddaughters, they couldn’t wait to show Papa and Grandma their new refrigerator with a shiny stainless steel finish. After oohing and aahing, I said, “Wow, it sure looks nice, but it’s kind of bare! What are you going to put on it?” Leah rushed out of view to find their dry erase...
Nov 1, 2020
by John J. Pethtel Director of Church Development Director of Pastoral Services What have you (yes, YOU!) been called to do by God? Have you been called to be a leader? YES, YOU! Leadership is not exactly what the world tells us it is. Sure, there are some who are uber gifted at managing things or in inspiring others. But what the world says a leader should be...
Nov 1, 2020
By Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History In 2017, the Barna Group, a Christian research company, released a study through a partnership with Pepperdine University called The State of Pastors. The study meant to evaluate “how today’s faith leaders are navigating life and leadership in an age of complexity.” The study noted that America’s pastors...
Nov 1, 2020
by Janet Thorngate An Equal Rights Story for Today This year Americans celebrated 100 years since the 19th Amendment to our Constitution assured women the right to vote. It was a long battle. Thirty-three years earlier, in one of the early skirmishes, ten women were arrested, indicted, tried, and convicted of voting illegally in Alfred, New York. Who were these...
Nov 1, 2020
By Carl Greene Executive Director The school bus was something of a learning center for me during elementary school. It was on the bus that I was introduced to the card game “bloody knuckles,” and also learned the painful price of losing a game (there is some truth to the game’s name). In addition to critical socialization lessons, I also learned...