The Dark Side of Life

• Lesson 5 for the week of January 27 to February 3

Background Considerations How are we to relate to painful experiences we sometimes have to go through? Can they teach us some profound dimensions of life? American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote: “Ecclesiastes is the greatest single...

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The Catalog of Times

• Lesson 4 for the week of January 20 to January 27

Background Considerations Have you ever lived in a culture in which people explain all life’s coincidences by saying: “It was written (that it should happen that way).” Among the neighboring nations of ancient Israel, there...

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In Pursuit of Pleasure and Wisdom

• Lesson 3 for the week of January 13 to January 20

Background Considerations Human lives are filled with complexities and apparent contradictions. Certain biblical passages talk straight about life’s toughest issues. The author of Ecclesiastes asks his readers: “Isn’t life meaningless since in the end we...

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When Life Appears to be Meaningless

• Lesson 2 for the week of January 6 to January 13

Background Considerations What happens when we overvalue our accomplishments in wisdom, wealth or pleasure? The author of Ecclesiastes was very successful in life and he claims to have tasted pretty much everything that life has...

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What is the Purpose of Life?

• Lesson 1 for the week of December 30 to January 6

Background Considerations Does life have a meaning? I have known some people who would never dare to ask this question. Some of those people are very religious. Yet, there are parts of the Bible that...

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The Holy Spirit in the Last Days

• Lesson 13 for the week of June 17 to June 24

Key Texts: Joel 2:28, 29; Acts 2:14-24; Acts 3:19-20; Revelation 18:1-5 The lesson this week concludes our study of the Holy Spirit. It is fitting that this last lesson asks us to think about the...

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The Sin Against the Holy Spirit

• Lesson 12 for the week of June 10 to June 17

The lesson this week raises a subject that is often the one people are most concerned about when dealing with the Holy Spirit. The concern arises from Jesus’ words found in Mark 3:28, 29. In...

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The Restorer

• Lesson 11 for the week of June 3 to June 10

A beautiful picture emerges from the passage above. The restoration God is working on does not just include the planet. It includes the heart as well. Wayward wills, minds, and desires will be transformed, restored...

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Life Through the Holy Spirit

• Lesson 10 for the week of May 27 to June 3

Key Text: John 6:63 The lesson this weeks is built on the biblical idea that human beings, left in their natural state, are far from God and bent toward going away from Him. Left this...

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The Christian’s Guide

• Lesson 9 for the week of May 20 to May 27

Key Texts: John 16:13; John 14:26 The Bible is very clear that one of the significant works of the Holy Spirit is to provide guidance for believers as they find their way along life’s way....

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The Fruit of the Holy Spirit

• Lesson 8 for the week of May 13 to May 20

The lesson this week is on the subject of the fruits of the Spirit. It is, arguably, the loveliest lesson of the whole quarter for it reminds us that, while traveling along the Christian way,...

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Gifts of the Holy Spirit

• Lesson 7 for the week of May 6 to May 13

The Bible very clearly teaches that one of the tasks the Holy Spirit undertakes is that of giving to believers various abilities called “gifts” that are given not for personal advantage of aggrandizement, but in...

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The Baptism of the Holy Spirit

• Lesson 6 for the week of April 29 to May 6

This week, we take on the discussion fo a topic that has surrounding it, a measure of controversy – the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The point of controversy has to do with whether this...

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The Promise Fulfilled

• Lesson 5 for the week of April 22 to April 29

This week’s lesson focuses on Acts 2:1-4. This is commonly called the story of Pentecost where, according to the promise of Jesus, the Holy Spirit manifested itself in a remarkable manner. Of a sudden, there...

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