Major Texts: Gen 2:16,17,1:26-28; James 3:9, Acts 17:26, Proverbs 4:31, Matt 5:44-48, Rev 20:11-13 The title of the lesson this week raises the prospect of some very interesting and challenging discussions about a matter that is of great significance to all...

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Major Texts: Genesis 2, Matt 19:4-6, Psalms 8, Job 38:1-21,42:1-6; Is 45:18, Acts 17:22-31 The lesson this week invites us to look at creation not only as an initial event but also as an event that has implications for all history...

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Major Texts: Genesis 1, Ps 8:3, Rom 8:19-22, Lev 11:14-22, Gen 2:1-3, Mark 2:28 The lesson this week revolves around three main eventualities-the days of creation, the sequence of creative events, and the completion of the creation week with the resultant...

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Major Texts: Gen 1:1-13; Isa 45:18, 1 John 1:5, Rev 22:5, 2 Cor 4:6, 2 Pet 3:5, Job 38:4-6 The adult Sabbath School lesson for this week focuses itself on the various particulars about planet earth that make it, to borrow a...

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Major Texts: Gen 1:1; Heb 11:3; Ps 19:1-3; John 1:1-3; Col 1:15,16; John 2:7-11 Introduction: The lessons this quarter focus on the big and foundational question of origins, a question that is much agitated these days mostly because of the on-going...

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Verses: 2 Thessalonians 2:13-3:18 Leading Question: Is salvation God’s business or ours? In his final admonition to the Thessalonians, Paul returns to some of the same themes with which he began his letters. 1. God chose you...

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Verses: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 Leading Question: Is the antichrist one person, one power, or potentially many? The second chapter of Thessalonians again returns to the question of the second coming and adds much more detailed information than...

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Verses: 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 Leading Question: If someone sends a well-intentioned message that is misunderstood, what steps should one take to put things right? 1. Second Coming instruction, second edition.  Apparently Paul’s comments about the return of...

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Verses: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28 Leading Question: How is it possible to exhort, admonish, and rebuke people so that our words will “reform but not exasperate” (6T 123)? Paul concludes his first letter to the Thessalonians with seventeen...

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Verses: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 Leading Question: When, in 1 Thessalonians 4, Paul urgently admonishes the Thessalonians toward sexual purity, is that a concern that applies directly to our culture and age? 1. Saying the nice things first. In the...

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Verses: 1 Thessalonians 2:13 – 3:13 Leading Question: When is it safe to imitate other believers? 1. The Judean Example (1 Thess. 2:13-16). Paul commends the Thessalonians for “imitating” the churches in Judea. And his specific point of...

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