Lubbock Adventist News

Prayer is hard. It doesn’t come natural and it is challenging with all the distractions that we have in the world. Even if we were to get rid of things like television, smart phones, social media, etc., there is another challenge that remains— mind clutter. Mind...

What is prayer? Why should we pray? The majority of Christians agree that prayer is a very important thing to do but not all Christians tend to pray regularly. It has been said that the average person in America prays one minute a week. Even pastors find prayer to be...

Soon it will be the beginning of the New Year, 2017! It seems impossible to me that we have already moved so far into the new millennium. It seems like just yesterday that preachers were hysterically warning congregations about the technological and economic meltdown...

Part 4 Jesus is not the reason for the season! This would be an appropriate moment to re-read that. No, I’m not advocating that Jesus should not be the focus during this holiday season. I want to draw our minds instead to the words of Jesus. Jesus mentioned in a...

Part 3 One of the main tenets of the Early Christian Church was fellowship and the breaking of bread. It was done weekly and in some places the Early Church would meet daily. As they met together to worship, converse about life and struggles, and ate with one another,...

Part 2 Miracles can occur when there is fellowship. When the Israelites were still slaves in Egypt God spoke to Moses and said, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here” (Exodus 11:1, NIV). This plague was one...

Part 1 When reading and studying about thriving and growing churches in early Christianity we find that almost all of them had certain habits that led to their success. To understand these habits it is necessary to study Acts 1 & 2. The blueprint that describes...

The Bible: Church History Part 2 "Remember, the law powerfully reveals our need for grace, but it has no power to alleviate our desperate need for God's grace." -Paul David Tripp As we jump into the last part of Acts 10, we will be analyzing an act in Scripture that...

Finding Your Way Back To God This week we have a special guest speaker, our Texico Conference President, Elder Lee-Roy Chacon. He has a special message for us. We will be looking at Luke 15 as Elder Chacon has entitled his message “Finding Your Way Back to God”. As he...