Five Questions for Glennon Balser Glennon grew up in Kanahwa County in West Virginia. His father Brinford (Buck) Balser was an Advent Christian minister who, while serving at the Clendenin AC Church in West Virginia, was tragically killed in a car accident along with Rev. Rolly Chambers when returning home from a denominational meeting. Glennon […]
Church Membership: Key number three to revitalization Blog post by Justin Nash This is the third post in a series that will examine five key revitalization strategies for the local church. Read the first post on discipleship here and the second on fellowship here. Each of these strategies is intended to deepen the overall spiritual […]
Submit to Your Leaders: Hebrews 13:17 Scripture Study We invite you to use these scripture studies for personal enrichment, group study or discipleship. Context From this text and others,[1] it’s clear in Scripture that pastors have authority. But what kind of authority? How far does the jurisdiction extend, and are there any checks on that […]
Balancing Your Marriage and Parenting Roles By Willie Batson Nora Ephron writes, “When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different; not worse, necessarily; but different.” Being married with children certainly changes your life in many ways – both in being a […]
We Need More Pastors Editorial by Justin Nash We need more pastors, but the vocation has fallen on hard time as of late. In regular seasons of ministry, being a pastor can be hard, demanding and, at times, very discouraging, leading approximately 250 to leave the ministry each month.[1] But within the last year, pastors […]
Why I am an Advent Christian Feature by Rev. Floyd L. McIntyre Sometime during the winter months of 1967 at the age of 22 I experienced a spiritual awakening. How this “awakening” came about and how it has played out in my life over the last 54 years will be the subject of this article. […]
AC Booklet Perfect for your church welcome center. This revised and updated version of H.L. Hasting’s classic booklet, “Forty Questions on Immortality” follows a simple question/answer format focusing on crucial questions about eternal life. This booklet is a companion piece to “This We Believe” and the “AC Booklet.” All are available free of charge to […]
Women’s Ministries Joins Fight Against Human Trafficking Blog post by Beth Larkin, Coordinator of Women’s Ministries Human trafficking is slavery. It’s the illegal trade of human beings. It’s the recruitment, control and use of people for their bodies and for their labor, through force, fraud and coercion. People everywhere are being bought and sold against […]
The Incarnation: John 1:1-14 Scripture Study We invite you to use these scripture studies for personal enrichment, group study or discipleship. Context Verses 1–14 serve as the prologue to John’s gospel and introduce many of the major themes John will address, most prominently that Jesus is the promised Messiah and the Son of God. This […]
Discipleship: Key number one to revitalization Blog post by Justin Nash This is the first post in a series that will examine five key revitalization strategies for the local church. Each of these strategies is intended to deepen the overall spiritual character of the church because a deepening of the culture and spiritual character of […]