Tag: 1st Quarter 2012

Leading Question: Why is it that the promise of Christ’s return is so easily dimmed in our world? Suggestion: Have class members share their favorite Second Coming passages from Scripture and the stories that illustrate...

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Leading Question: What was a “love story” like before sin entered the world? How did sin affect the male-female relationship? In some ways, the only love story before sin, that of Adam and Eve, was...

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Leading Question: How do Christians celebrate the beautiful in a world that is so heavily marred by sin? Devout conservatives Christians often find it difficult to recognize beauty for beauty’s sake.  It is much easier...

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Leading Question: Why are God’s answers to prayer so unpredictable? The topic prayer is a huge one. The list of different kinds of prayer is impressive: Praise, thanksgiving, complaint, and petitionary are some of the...

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Leading Question: Is this world the best that God can do, or are we looking for a better one? The important questions in this lesson can perhaps be addressed against the backdrop of a chapter...

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Leading Question: Has our consumer society taught us to destroy the earth? Lauren Weber’s book, In Cheap We Trust (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009), raises a significant question for the Christian: Do we...

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Leading Question: How can Jesus help us see how an Old Testament Sabbath that was precious to Him, can also be precious to us today? Let’s consider important questions about the Sabbath from three perspectives,...

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Leading Question: Does God’s law condemn the sinner, or guide the sinner to a richer life? Terrifying Lawgiver and Gracious Lawgiver: The following passages help us explore the tension between a holy God from whom...

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Leading Question: To what extent is “holy” a user-friendly word, either to describe God or our fellow human beings? In an insightful comment describing matched but contrasting pairs of human traits, the British classicist, Richard...

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Leading Question: How is it possible for a person to rejoice at the thought that God is coming to judge the earth? In our culture, the prospect of judgment can be looked at from at...

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Leading Question: Are human beings wretched wrecks in need of salvaging?  Or are they jewels in the rough just waiting to be polished? When the topic of “Redeemer” comes up, two alternative views of human...

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Leading Question: Does the Bible point to any other kind of week than one consisting of seven, 24-hour days? Our understanding of what the Bible teaches about creation is haunted by the modern impulse to...

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Verses: Deut 6:4; Phil 2:6; Matt 28:19; John 14-16 Leading Question: Has any human being ever understood the Trinity? The word “trinity” nowhere appears in Scripture. Early Adventists attacked the doctrine. Ellen White nowhere uses the term, but...

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