Christian business owners say spreading the Word is no marketing gimmick. They say they feel a calling to weave their religion into their business. That can mean everything from banning smoking or cursing on the job to paying a chaplain to be available to employees.

He retired last November after 44 years of preaching the Christian gospel, but Seventh-day Adventist pastor Donald Ezekiel Kent has no intention of slowing down.

The bill which was passed in parliament last night, seeks to amend the Seventh Day Adventist Church Ordinance to change all references to the Leeward Islands Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist to the East Caribbean Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist church.

Ever a thorny issue, the teaching of evolutionary biology at a small Christian university in California has sparked debate on the campus and within the Seventh-day Adventist church.

“Adventist parents should be able to trust their colleges and universities to build the faith of their young people,” he wrote. “They should not have the additional burden of trying on their own to figure out whether their youth are going to be taught evolution rather than creation.”

A number of years ago I watched a film about Jim Jones and his People’s Temple cult. One of the things that struck me when watching the film was how they presented themselves as a caring community. When someone came to the church without a job, at the end of the service they were introduced to their new employer. When someone came to church without a place to stay, they were assisted with that. Every week church members wrote hundreds of letters to visitors thanking them for being a part of their service, and what a wonderful church it was.

I can remember people around me shaking their heads and saying how terrible these techniques were. All the time I was thinking to myself, “Are you kidding me? If we did things like this our churches would be bursting at the seams!”

This appears to be a growing sentiment among many younger Christians in America today. They love Jesus but they want little to do with His Church. It’s not that they don’t like the their local church or even other Christians—it’s that they don’t like how Christianity in America is frequently represented by many professing Evangelicals, which in their minds is often unloving, judgmental, arrogant, and hypocritical.

A team of Seventh-day Adventist Church relief workers is on its way to the Dominican Republic border and is expected to cross into Haiti later today.

The team, consisting of Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) workers, medical personnel from partner organization Global Medic and Inter-American church leaders, will deliver supplies, pass out water purification tablets and set up emergency care clinics.

I am amazed at the power of our creative faculty as human beings. We have far more power than we give ourselves credit for. Scriptures says that man was made in the image and likeness of God. Far too many times, we allow situations to get out of control because we didn’t take creative control over it and do the inner work that’s necessary to get long-lasting, positive results.

Somebody recently told me, “Whatever you do, just don’t do business with a Christian!” insinuating that many Christians (probably most, in his mind) cannot be trusted in business. The accusation is not new at all — I have heard it many times before — and make no mistake, it hurts every time! But is it valid?

If you make a choice to stay at home you are considered to be wasting your intelligence and your education. You may have had the experience of someone asking, “What do you do?” If you respond by saying you work at home they try to clarify by asking, “But where are you employed?” The world does not view motherhood or caring for your home as employment. Because there is no monetary value attached to it we see no value in it at all.