Faithful to the End

In a few weeks, chosen delegates from around the northeast United States will be converging on South Lancaster, Massachusetts, to participate in the 30th Quinquennial Session of the Atlantic Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Missional reports will be shared. Officers and departmental leaders, along with an executive committee, will be elected. Statistical growth and financial … Read more

New York Bible Series Concludes with 21 Baptisms

“Cure for a Broken World,” a revival and relationships series, was held at the Community Worship Center (CWC) in Springfield Gardens, New York, February 7-13. Guest presenters were Donald King, Atlantic Union Conference president, who spoke on last-day prophetic events; and Lois King, Atlantic Union Conference Women’s Ministries and Ministerial Spouses Association director, who spoke … Read more

Money Management

The average person does not have a good idea about how to manage money. The consumer debt in America has tripled; the average person in America has more debt than they can handle. Most American families spend more than they earn in a year or just break even. Personal bankruptcies have increased in the last … Read more

How Can I Help You? (Jesus on Customer Service)

Some time ago, I heard a family tell about how they wanted to send their child to an Adventist Christian school. The family started planning in the spring, making a spreadsheet listing the schools and visiting each school. After reviewing the positives and negatives, one school was chosen. They sent an application and deposit to … Read more

The Cornerstone Who Makes Living Stone

In ancient biblical times the cornerstone was the stone at the corner of two walls that united them. It was the visible corner and most important stone of the foundation of the building. It set the level, angle, and outer dimensions of the building. It had to be level and squared true (vertical) so that … Read more

Building Effective Student-Teacher Relationships

Teaching is undoubtedly one of the most essential tasks with which Christians were entrusted by God. It is upon this commission that our church founded the ministry of Christian education. Oftentimes, as Christian educators in Seventh-day Adventist schools, while we are diligent in teaching our students about God, our primary focus becomes academic performance and … Read more

A Hard Nut Cracked

After two dreams and witnessing God’s actual presence in the fiery furnace, Nebuchadnezzar was still resistant to fully acknowledging God’s divine sovereignty. It wasn’t until after God stripped him of his kingdom and caused him to live as a wild beast for seven years, that the Bible records the once proud king, now humbly saying, … Read more

Compassion and the Gospel

Recently, my wife and I had the delightful opportunity to attend an evangelistic rally at The Waymark Seventh-day Adventist Church in Boston. Hundreds of members, along with many leaders and pastors from the more than 44 churches in metro Boston, came together to prepare the way for Compassion Boston—a major evangelistic initiative to be held … Read more

We’ve Got Something to Talk About

“How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’ ”—Isaiah 52:7, NIV My daughter, Aiyana, tells me that I talk to everybody I meet. That’s not true, of course, but that’s her perception. … Read more