A recent conversation with a friend here in Georgia prompted me to ask a question that has often come to mind ever since I was a youth group leader about 30 years ago. Is there any guarantee that a...
Friday Messages
Hope in a Hopeless World
by John Lackie | Mar 20, 2020 | Friday Messages
About six weeks ago, I embarked on an epic journey - a bicycle ride from Key West, Florida to Calais, Maine, on the Canadian Border. I am now almost half-way through the journey, and will be...
Trusting God During Viruses
by Neil Sandford | Mar 13, 2020 | Friday Messages
Dear Friends, The news is in an uproar over the Corona virus and its possible worldwide spread. There seem to be two different ways of thinking. One is to be in a panic over it and the other...
The Sabbath Comes
by Dennis Pass | Feb 28, 2020 | Friday Messages
Welcome to the Sabbath. At an early age growing up in Connecticut, I remember stopping for the Sabbath as a day of rest. It was a day of no school, no chores, and was a happy childhood memory. ...
God’s Wonderful Ways
by David Adams | Feb 21, 2020 | Friday Messages
The Lord finds many ways of blessing us. Sometimes they’re what we’d expect; often times they’re not. But He always knows how to tailor them for us personally. And I think He really likes to...
Sabbath Convocation
by Joseph Brown | Feb 14, 2020 | Friday Messages
“For in six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation.” Leviticus 23:3 NASV What is a “convocation”? Our church tradition for many decades...
A Taste of What’s to Come
by David Wargo | Feb 7, 2020 | Friday Messages
The words of John the beloved have been ringing through my head. At the very end of Revelation he says, “Yes, come Lord Jesus!” I imagine a great longing must have been in his voice when those words...
A Better Country
by Benjamin Holscher | Jan 31, 2020 | Friday Messages
My wife Jess and I will be moving to our new house in Oneonta, NY in a few days. We’re both excited to move and to make the new place “home,” but we’re still in the “between” stage. Our current...
Refreshment
by Ralph Maxwell | Jan 24, 2020 | Friday Messages
We are pilgrims traveling on the road to heaven. We are moving along the King’s highway toward that “City which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” We often walk by faith and not by...
God’s Pace
by Dan Murray | Jan 17, 2020 | Friday Messages
How many of you have taken a shortcut which ended up in disaster? This frequently happens in life, when we get so caught up in the pursuit of some wonderful goal that we start cutting corners in...
Fret Not
by Bill Abram | Dec 12, 2019 | Friday Messages
“God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world.” This is a well-known line from Pippa, an orphan girl in a Robert Browning poetic drama. It expressed the relief that she felt at her one day...
The Joy of the Temple
by Neil Sandford | Dec 6, 2019 | Friday Messages
Dear Friends who love God and the Sabbath,A few months ago our daughter shared a Sabbath song that she found on YouTube called “Temple Made of Time.” If you want to view it, here is the...