Category: Lessons

The Certainty of the Second Coming

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

Background Consideration: Most of the space in the book of Mark is reserved for stories about Jesus and his disciples, not discourses by Jesus. Only chapters 4 and 13 could be described as sermons. In...

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Millenial Expectation and the Coming

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

Background Consideration: Millennial fever is helping to fuel the economy and capture the imagination, even after an uneventful January 1, 2000. Christian novels about the Antichrist are racking up huge sales in secular book stores....

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The Witness of the Remnant

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

Background Considerations: The severe warnings of Revelation 14:6-12 should be seen as God’s response to the threats of the unholy trio in chap. 13. God lets us know he poses a greater threat than the...

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Such a Cloud of Witnesses

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

Background Considerations: Noah announced the coming of a flood he had never seen. John the Baptist had the privilege of announcing the arrival of Someone he himself had never met. Today God calls for those...

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The Sanctuary and the Second Coming

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

Background Considerations: Judgement in the Bible includes: the trial presided over by the judge, the sentencing by the judge, as well as the meting out of justice. Often the ruler or king would be expected...

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Salvation and the Second Coming

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

Background Considerations: In a famous painting by Harry Anderson a group of children are all gathered around a seated Jesus. The children are either looking at Jesus’ hands in surprise or into his face with...

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The First Coming

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

Background Considerations: In the Gospel of Mark Jesus appears to be an alien and dangerous figure, prone to frighten even his closest associates. Their fear of the prospects of death by drowning is fading but,...

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The Sabbath and the Second Coming

• Lesson 4 for the week of April 15 to April 22

Background Considerations: Sixty plus years ago both my mother and my mother-in-law switched from keeping the first day of the week as sacred to keeping the seventh day. Like many religious Americans they were already...

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Creation and the Second Coming

• Lesson 3 for the week of April 8 to April 15

Background Consideration: Dr. Joe Galusha points out in this broadcast that the evolutionist views the geological data in the earth’s crust as evidence of the process of evolution, but creation scientists typically view the geological...

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The Authority of the Bible

• Lesson 2 for the week of April 1 to April 8

Background Considerations: In 2 Timothy 3:14-17 Paul exposes to view how an inspired Bible is supposed to work. Both the process and the end product are laid out in plain view. By means of teaching...

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What Makes Christianity Christian?

• Lesson 1 for the week of March 25 to April 1

Background Considerations: The earliest surviving picture of Jesus was scratched on a plaster wall in the city of Rome about 200 A.D. In the crude graffiti a human body, drawn from the backside, is stretched...

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Blessed Assurances in Revelation

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

Background Considerations: Of all the books of the Bible, Revelation promises the greatest assurance, especially to those who have been oppressed, marginalized, wronged, in other words those needing hope the most. If one stands back...

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Witnessing With Assurance

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

Background Considerations: A confident Christian has something to say about faith and is not afraid to say it. Although gifts vary and levels of intensity (from nature and nurture!) differ among people, those who have...

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God’s Assurance in Baptism and the Communion

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

Background Considerations: Christians all over the world relate in different ways to sacraments. In many places you can never have too many; there is a ritual every time you turn around. And people find it...

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