Category: <span>Presidential</span>

As I write this evening my heart aches as I look at pictures of elderly men and women, survivors of the holocaust gathered at Auschwitz, remembering the

Did you make any New Year’s resolutions in the past few days? Have you broken them yet?  Many are made at the beginning of the year, and

We are at the beginning of a new year and a new decade. As I look back at the last year I see many things

We had a rule in our house. “No picking up or shaking the packages under the Christmas tree.” But there was no rule against

This morning I am getting ready to attend a funeral of a friend who died after a fall. Just a few days ago one of our pastors attended

At the recent constituency session delegates overwhelmingly voted a new strategic plan for the next four years entitled “Connecting to Serve.” This new plan focuses on our overall mission, “to grow passionate

Years ago, when I became the youth director at Camp Yorktown Bay, in Arkansas, I was interested in finding out how much

Daily our new media tells stories of people who are marching, kneeling, and shouting. Protesters and counter-protesters, each seeking to champion their own causes. I wonder how much more would get done if those who take to the streets in protest, instead, invested the same time and energy lending a helping hand. In Matthew 25...

Over the past few weeks Juanita and I have gotten to know Brian, Kathleen Traci, and Mary. They may not be members of the Seventh-day Adventist church, but they ministered to us in profound ways. What do they have in common? They all wear scrubs. They were men and women who did far more than...

  In my devotional reading this morning about the call of Jesus’ first disciples I was struck by the following statement in the Desire of Ages p. 141 “There are those who for a lifetime have professed to be acquainted with Christ, yet who have never made a personal effort to bring even one soul...