Lubbock Adventist News

What does it take to be successful? Here’s a definition I like from author and motivational speaker Jack Canfield: “Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather...

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. -Helen Keller What is the moral and ethical responsibility of the Christian regarding the less fortunate? Is...

This has been quite a ride—finding Jesus in the Book of Revelation at the Lubbock Seventh-day Adventist Church each evening for this one-week intensive! One thing that has become obvious is that Jesus wants to be in a covenant relationship with us! It...

Revelation begins: “The revelation of Jesus Christ.,” but after that most people hardly find Jesus at all. What comes to mind for most people is beasts, persecution, plagues, a lake of fire, Babylon, 666, and a dragon. Oh sure, it ends with a wonderful New...

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Gandhi worked his whole life to find freedom for his people. Colonization was alive and well in India. The British were prospering from it and had no...

“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.” - John F. Kennedy The words of President Kennedy are still...

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. - Pablo Picasso This week, as we continue our Nehemiah: Building on the Will of God...

“God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.” -Oswald Chambers One of the hardest things to do in life is wait. Waiting often feels like an eternity that...

"Tough times never last, but tough people do." - Robert H. Schuller As much as we all desire the "good life," we know by experience and confirmation from the Bible that life is tough. Whether we are at the base of a mountain, half way up the summit or...