Past Issues – Page 57

Caleb: Living With the Wait

Lesson 2 for the week of October 2 to October 9

Leading Question: How does one stand for the Lord when everyone else falls away? Key Passages: Numbers 13-14, From twelve spies down to two, Caleb and Joshua Joshua 14, Caleb asks for the toughest part...

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Appendix B: The Worst Story in the Old Testament: Judges 19-21

Introduction

Appendix B: “Who Can Change the Mind of God?” Commentary on conditional prophecy (Jeremiah 26): By Alden Thompson, “Who Can Change the Mind of God?” Signs of the Times, Feb. 1992, 25-27. God is in...

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Appendix A: Commentary on the ninth command

Introduction

Appendix A, on truth-telling: Commentary on the ninth command, Alden Thompson, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor,” Signs of the Times, November 1988, 20-22. Published as “When the Truth Is a Lie,”...

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Story and History

Lesson 1 for the week of September 25 to October 2

Leading Question: “Do stories make truth more believable?” Key Passages: Genesis 39:6-12, Joseph and Potipher’s wife 1 Samuel 24:1-6, David allows Saul to escape from the cave Job 1-2, God and Satan in dialogue over righteous...

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All the Rest Is Commentary

Lesson 13 for the week of September 18 to September 18

What should Christians do when they don’t agree? Having emphasized the supremacy of love in the Christian life (Rom 12:9-10; Rom 13:8-10), Paul now begins to wrap up his letter by providing examples of how...

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Love and Law

Lesson 12 for the week of September 11 to September 18

How should the Christian live be lived? Now that Paul has finished his explanation of the gospel, he turns his attention more fully to the way life should be lived in light of it. Paul...

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The Election of Grace

Lesson 11 for the week of September 4 to September 11

Did God reject the Jewish nation? Today’s lesson focuses on Romans 10 and 11 and is a continuation of Paul’s discussion in chapter 9 dealing with fact that so many Jews failed to accept Jesus...

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Freedom in Christ

Lesson 9 for the week of September 4 to August 28

What role does the Holy Spirit play in the Christian life? In contrast to the discouraging picture painted in Romans 7 of the person struggling to overcome sin, but failing miserable, Romans 8 offers a...

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Redemption for Jew and Gentile

Lesson 10 for the week of August 28 to September 4

What qualities is God looking for in the lives of his followers today? I suspect that Romans 9-11 is probably the least liked section in Romans. The first eight chapters of Romans provide a stunning...

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The Man of Romans 7

Lesson 8 for the week of August 14 to August 21

Who is the man in Romans 7? Today”s lesson deals with one of the most controversial passages in Paul”s epistle: the identity of the man in Romans 7 struggling ineffectively against the power sin in...

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Victory Over Sin

Lesson 7 for the week of August 7 to August 14

Is freedom from sin a reality in your life? Paul”s insistence that a person is saved by faith apart from works of the law (Rom 3:28) was troubling for some Christiansâ€”particularly those who were Jewish...

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Expounding the Faith

Lesson 6 for the week of July 31 to August 7

What difference does justification by faith really make in a person”s life? Although Paul has explained the details of what it means to be justified by faith and has illustrated that experience in the life...

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Justified by Faith

Lesson 4 for the week of July 17 to July 24

What does it mean to be justified by faith? Of all the passages in Paul”s writings, no single passage is packed with more theologically significant terms than Romans 3:21-31: Justification, redemption, propitiation, grace, justification by...

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All Have Sinned

Lesson 3 for the week of July 10 to July 17

Are you ashamed of the Gospel? While some people in Paul”s day may have been ashamed of the gospel, Paul was not. The gospel for Paul was something to boast about? Why? Because the gospel...

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Caleb: Living With the Wait

Appendix B: The Worst Story in the Old Testament: Judges 19-21

Appendix A: Commentary on the ninth command

Story and History

All the Rest Is Commentary

Love and Law

The Election of Grace

Freedom in Christ

Redemption for Jew and Gentile

The Man of Romans 7

Victory Over Sin

Expounding the Faith

Justified by Faith

All Have Sinned

The Last Five Kings of Judah

Elijah’s and Elisha’s Mantle

Deuteronomy in the New Testament

In the Psalms: Part 1

Foundations for Prophecy

Understanding Sacrifice

God is Good

That We May Know Him

What Inspiration Is

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