Here is a little bit of the story of how I came to SBS in Montana: I went to college at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, IL as a Biblical Studies major. When I was a junior in college, God clearly directed me to change my major to English, and a few months later called […]

Welcome to Ozark Recently I spent a month at the YWAM base in the tiny town of Ozark, Arkansas. I was there to help out with an SBS that was being re-pioneered after 5 years. Jim Nizza had originally pioneered SBS and ran it for 4 years. When he passed away in August of 2010 […]

Once again, Mark Masucci will be running a seminar in Kiev. This time it is the New Testament Studies Seminar. This seminar is designed to give SBS graduates and SBS staff a greater depth of proficiency in the New Testament and the theological issues that it raises. It also provides an opportunity to engage in […]

What checking a horizontal is not: Something to be quickly looked over in less than 5 minutes and evaluated without There are not right or wrong answers as long as they can be explained as the goal is to encourage critical thinking through the inductive method. A step of discouragement or of comparison. Each person […]

I think we are all familiar with the problem of time management in SBS. We as staff are constantly faced with the need to prioritize our tasks. It can be tempting to enter a new school year with high ideals of doing better teachings and more one-on-ones. While I agree that it is important for […]

Eighty SBS staff in one place, from 11 locations all talking about their passion for the Bible!  We spent 5 days together. The sessions focused on what we do and why we do it and how to do it all better. The topics fell into three main groups- 1.  Staying true to the Gospel (Good […]

Wilrens Hornstra, for many years involved with the SBS in Germany, presently on staff at YWAM’s Leadership Retreat Centre near Malaga, Spain An unspoken value we share in SBS (why else would we study so much?) is that we love to learn.  We want to grow in our understanding of Scripture, in our grasp of background […]

It was a Friday morning in the SBS classroom when I had listened to yet another powerful performance of an original song one of the students wrote for their Psalms Creative assignment.I had goose bumps as I absorbed one beautiful song after another.The thought came into my mind; we need to record these songs.These lyrics, […]

How SBS saved my life:  Is this too strong of a statement? Or is it the truth of what happens to your life when you are actively in the word of God? I always use to say, “I would never do an SBS, unless God made it extremely clear, there is no way!” Last spring […]