Tag: 1st Quarter 2013

Major texts: Rev 21:1-5, Gen 3:19,1 Cor 15:52-58, Gen 6:11-13, Isa 11:6-9, John 14:1-3 The final lesson for this quarter invites us to think of creation once again. In this case, it is not about creation as it once happened...

Continue reading →

Major texts: Gen 3:21; Ps 104:29,30; John 1:4; Rom 5:6-11; Gal 3:13, Matt 27:46 This week, the lesson invites us to look at the connections between creation and the gospel. If this is to happen, several connections of thought need to...

Continue reading →

Major texts: Gen 2:1-3; Heb 4:3,4; Deut 5:12-15; Ezek 20:12; Mark 2:27,28; 2 Pet 3:3-7 One can hardly complete a reading of the creation account in Genesis without noticing the last act of the drama, namely the establishment of the Sabbath...

Continue reading →

Major Texts: Ps 8, Gen 2:15, Rev 4:11, Ex 20:8-11,1 Cor 3:16 One of the eventualities that emerge from the story of creation is that all living creatures on earth, indeed all living things on earth, share a common...

Continue reading →

Major Texts: Gen 2:18-25, Mark 10:7-9, Eph 5:22-25, Matt 5:27-30, 2 Cor 3:18 One of the notable things that emerges from the creation account in Genesis, something that is and has been ubiquitous in human experience, is marriage. It is...

Continue reading →

Major Texts: Job 12:10; 1 Cor 6:19,20; Gen 3:17; John 12:31; 1 Cor 1:18-21 The lesson this week delves into some very interesting and important territory. If its essence were to be distilled into a single, primary question, it would...

Continue reading →

Major Texts: Gen 3:1-15, Matt 4:3-10, Col 2:20-23, John 3:17, Rev 14:6,7 Those who know the biblical story of creation know It is followed quite directly by another well-known story that is a very sad one, the story of the...

Continue reading →

Major Texts: Gen 2:16,17,1:26-28; James 3:9, Acts 17:26, Proverbs 4:31, Matt 5:44-48, Rev 20:11-13 The title of the lesson this week raises the prospect of some very interesting and challenging discussions about a matter that is of great significance to all...

Continue reading →

Major Texts: Genesis 2, Matt 19:4-6, Psalms 8, Job 38:1-21,42:1-6; Is 45:18, Acts 17:22-31 The lesson this week invites us to look at creation not only as an initial event but also as an event that has implications for all history...

Continue reading →

Major Texts: Genesis 1, Ps 8:3, Rom 8:19-22, Lev 11:14-22, Gen 2:1-3, Mark 2:28 The lesson this week revolves around three main eventualities-the days of creation, the sequence of creative events, and the completion of the creation week with the resultant...

Continue reading →

Major Texts: Gen 1:1-13; Isa 45:18, 1 John 1:5, Rev 22:5, 2 Cor 4:6, 2 Pet 3:5, Job 38:4-6 The adult Sabbath School lesson for this week focuses itself on the various particulars about planet earth that make it, to borrow a...

Continue reading →

Major Texts: Gen 1:1; Heb 11:3; Ps 19:1-3; John 1:1-3; Col 1:15,16; John 2:7-11 Introduction: The lessons this quarter focus on the big and foundational question of origins, a question that is much agitated these days mostly because of the on-going...

Continue reading →