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Category Archives: Observations

Articles of a variety of topics but personal in perspective, commentary, and thoughts from my worldview and interests in life.

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Organic Pastor?

Steve Durkac Posted on May 24, 2017 by Steve DurkacDecember 10, 2025

Somewhere along the line of my journey with CrossHope Chapel, it occurred to me that my calling in this mission was one of an “organic pastor” in philosophy, approach, and ministry. I want to give you a definition for the term “organic pastor” which is a term that I like to use when talking about those called of God to pastoral … Continue reading →

Posted in Ministry, Observations | Tagged House Church, Non-traditional Church, Organic Church, Pastor, Simple Church, Small Group

79 Years Later

Steve Durkac Posted on May 24, 2017 by Steve DurkacApril 23, 2024

Yesterday, May 23, 2017 would have been my birth mother’s 79th birthday, had she not died in 1990. I was thinking earlier today that when I get to heaven I will have two mothers – the mother that adopted me and the mother that birthed me. Interestingly, the mom who raised me is named Irene and the mom who birthed me … Continue reading →

Posted in Observations | Tagged Adoption, adult adoptee, Family, Jeanette Thoemke

Observations for SDA’s

Steve Durkac Posted on May 24, 2017 by Steve DurkacFebruary 4, 2024

I have been out of the Seventh-day Adventist church almost as long as I was in the Seventh-day Adventist church. Since I have been among and ministering within non-Adventist churches, I have observed some things that I have always thought would be worth sharing with my Adventist friends. These are observations that I wish were shared with me when I … Continue reading →

Posted in Observations | Tagged Adventist, Former Adventist, SDA, Seventh-day Adventist, Steve Durkac

My Baby Feet

Steve Durkac Posted on May 23, 2017 by Steve DurkacApril 23, 2024

I finally got my baby feet. What I mean is, I just received the card stock paper where the nurses at St. John’s Hospital in Fargo, North Dakota inked my feet, shortly after being born on October 1, 1962 and made an impression of my baby feet with ink. As I looked at the paper with the impression of my new … Continue reading →

Posted in Observations | Tagged Adoption, adult adoptee, Family

3 Scriptures for Adoptees

Steve Durkac Posted on May 23, 2017 by Steve DurkacFebruary 4, 2024

I am an adoptee, and you can read my personal testimony to learn how that impacted my conversion and sustaining faith in Jesus Christ and His word. Here I wish to share 3 Scripture verses that I believe speak to the real significance of every individual who may be wrestling with their identity because of being an adopted child.   Jeremiah … Continue reading →

Posted in Observations | Tagged adoptee, Adoption, Bible

Spiritual Dreams

Steve Durkac Posted on September 25, 2016 by Steve DurkacFebruary 4, 2024

This morning in our gathering at CrossHope Chapel, my wife made mention of a dream that I had recently where she woke me because I was repeating the name Jesus. She joked that she actually thought it was some kind of near-death experience, but the reason I was repeating the name Jesus was because I was confronted with a demon … Continue reading →

Posted in Observations | Tagged dreams, Joel 2:28

Joy and Laughter

Steve Durkac Posted on June 23, 2016 by Steve DurkacFebruary 4, 2024

Last night at our Midweek Fellowship we were talking about the topic of joy, and afterwards I remembered two other important Bible verses that we could have looked at: • Nehemiah 8:10 – “for the joy of the Lord is your strength” • Proverbs 17:22 – “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” Also, here … Continue reading →

Posted in Observations | Tagged Joy, laughter, Nehemiah 8:10, Proverbs 17:22

I Am A Former Seventh-Day Adventist Minister

Steve Durkac Posted on June 12, 2015 by Steve DurkacFebruary 4, 2024

At the end of 1999 I walked away from my pulpit as a Seventh-day Adventist minister, having spent 18 years of my adult life in the denomination, including serving as a pastor in both the Carolina Conference of SDA and the Gulf States Conference of SDA. At the time that I left the Adventist denomination I was going through an unwanted … Continue reading →

Posted in Observations | Tagged 10 Commandments, Adventist, Carolina Conference of SDA, Ex-Adventist, Former Adventist, former SDA, former SDA pastor, Gulf States Conference of SDA, Law of God, Pastor Steve Durkac, Sabbath, Sabbath Keeping, SDA, Seventh-day, Seventh-day Adventist

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