Category: Lessons

Then Our Sins Shall Be Forgiven

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

Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Nov 20-Dec 3 Background Considerations: Daniel chapter eight dates to the third year of Belshazzar, or 547 BC, two years after the date of the vision from chapter seven....

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Suffering is Not Forever

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

Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Nov 6-19 Background Considerations: Daniel has a vision in which he sees four wild beasts rising out of the ocean. Three have identifiable forms, while the fourth is a...

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Two Unchangeable Laws

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

Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Oct 30-Nov 5 Background Considerations: The story recorded in chapter six of Daniel has many parallels with the story from chapter three at the levels of structure, vocabulary and...

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From Stars to Dust

• Lesson 6 for the week of October 30 to November 6

Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Oct 23-29 Background Considerations: Chapter five in Daniel contains a story that is closely related to the fall of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. In fact, this is the only place...

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He Touched Me

• Lesson 5 for the week of October 23 to October 30

Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Oct 16-22 Background Considerations: This chapter contains an open letter from the king with a long confession of a personal experience and praises to God in the style of...

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Our God is Able

• Lesson 4 for the week of October 16 to October 23

Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Oct 9-15 Background Considerations: Background Considerations Unlike the previous chapter, this one is not dated even though we can safely assume that it also comes from the first phase...

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He Holds the Future

• Lesson 3 for the week of October 9 to October 16

Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Oct 2-8 Background Considerations: The event of his chapter is dated in the second year of King Nebuchadnezzar, or 602 BC. Historians refer to this king in the first...

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From Dust to Stars

• Lesson 2 for the week of October 2 to October 9

Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Sep 25 – Oct 1 Background Considerations: The story of this week finds young Daniel marching as captive on one of the dusty roads from Jerusalem to Babylon. Babylonian...

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When a Tragedy Strikes

• Lesson 1 for the week of September 25 to October 2

Does not correspond with Sabbath School Study Guide Background Considerations: The exact time of Daniel’s birth is not known, but many students of the Bible believe that it was around 622 BC during one of...

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Embracing the World

• Lesson 13 for the week of September 18 to September 25

Read: John 17:15-18; Matthew 25:31-46 Embracing the World. Should the church seek to portray a particular image to the world? Or should it simply seek to be a hospital for sinners and let the chips...

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Supporting Our Leaders

• Lesson 12 for the week of September 11 to September 18

Read: Ps. 51; Matt. 20:20-28; Gal. 3:28; 1 Thess. 5:12-13 Support Our Leaders: If a church leader makes a mistake, should we still support him or her? That is the question at the heart of...

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Brothers and Sisters in the Faith

• Lesson 11 for the week of September 4 to September 11

Read: Rom. 12:4-5;1 Cor. 1-3; 12:12-27; Acts 1-7; 15 Brothers and Sisters in the Faith. It may be one thing to forgive our enemies, but how can we forgive members of our own faith community...

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Loving Our Enemies

• Lesson 10 for the week of August 28 to September 4

Read: Jer. 31:31-34; Matt. 6:12; Luke 6:27-36; 23:1-34 Loving Our Enemies. If our enemies are both wrong and evil, why and how can we love them as Jesus said we must? That is the focal...

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How to Relate to Non-Christians

• Lesson 9 for the week of August 21 to August 28

Read: John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Rom. 1:18-20; 2:14-16 How to Relate to Non-Christians. Can people who do not know Jesus and who do not knowingly follow him be saved in a kingdom where Jesus reigns...

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