Will the religious leaders accept Jesus as their Messiah? Or will they reject His message and turn Him over to the Romans? It’s the most exciting time in history, and YOU ARE THERE. The greatest story ever told is here retold through the eyes of a shepherd boy from Bethlehem, a... [Show more]
“The church exists by mission just as fire exists by burning,” wrote Emil Brunner. “Where there is no mission, there is no church.” The problem is, some churches have become mere Sabbath-morning gatherings of religious people. They’ve lost their fire and fail to... [Show more]
In Matthew 28:18-20 Jesus makes the mission of the church abundantly clear: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations . . .” But how do you reach a twenty-first-century society filled with diverse backgrounds and varying levels of religious interest? And how can you expect to... [Show more]
Does God belong in the public arena of politics, business, law, and education? Or is religion a private matter only-personally comforting but publicly irrelevant? In today's cultural etiquette, it is not considered polite to mix public and private, or sacred and secular. This division is the single... [Show more]
One hundred taxis lined up on Church Street in Oslo on November 26, 1942, deployed in order to round up the city's Jews and send them to Auschwitz. This reality anchors God of Sense and Traditions of Non-Sense: it is theology from a Holocaust perspective. The brash Elihu excoriating Job for his... [Show more]
This resource guide is to inspire, encourage, instruct, and equip those that have a desire to follow the Lord’s leading to engage in prison ministry. It is the desire that every correctional resident in the North American Division will have an opportunity to get to know Jesus Christ and be... [Show more]
Beginner Sabbath school is the start of an important spiritual journey for the children in your class. It's the place where parents can bring their children for their first formal introduction to Jesus and their church family. Through Sabbath school children get to know God, to hear God's Word, and... [Show more]
The alarming reality of many churches today is that they have bare spots created by the youth and young adults missing from their congregation. Results from a Religious Landscape Study conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2007 and 2014 show a marked decline in church attendance and those who... [Show more]
Beginner Sabbath school is the start of an important spiritual journey for the children in your class. It's the place where parents can bring their children for their first formal introduction to Jesus and their church family. Through Sabbath school children get to know God, to hear God's Word, and... [Show more]
Much has been written about the profound impact the post-World War II baby boomers had on American religion. But the lifestyles and beliefs of the generation that has followed - and the influence these younger Americans in their twenties and thirties are having on the face of religion - are not so... [Show more]