Tag: Alden Thompson

Spiritual Adultery (Hosea)

• Lesson 1 for the week of March 30 to April 6

Theme: Spiritual Adultery Leading Question: “Why should modern Christians read the “minor” prophets? All of our lessons this quarter focus on the so-called “minor” prophets, the last 12 books of the Hebrew Bible. The official study...

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Introduction to the Study of the Minor Prophets

• Introduction

Introduction to the Study of the Minor Prophets The twelve small books at the end of our English Bibles are known as the “minor” prophets simply because they are so much smaller than the “major”…

Creation, Again

• Lesson 13 for the week of March 23 to March 30

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...

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Creation and the Gospel

• Lesson 12 for the week of March 16 to March 23

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...

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Sabbath: A Gift from Eden

• Lesson 11 for the week of March 9 to March 16

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...

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Stewardship and the Environment

• Lesson 10 for the week of March 2 to March 9

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...

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A Gift From Eden

• Lesson 9 for the week of February 23 to March 2

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...

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Jesus, Provider and Sustainer

• Lesson 8 for the week of February 16 to February 23

Major Texts: Heb 1:3; Col 1:16,17; Job 42; Matt 5:45, 6:25-34,10:28 The lesson this week seeks to make the point that the Creator, whom it identifies as Jesus, was not just involved with creation at the beginning. He is also...

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Through a Glass Darkly

• Lesson 7 for the week of February 9 to February 16

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...

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Creation and the Fall

• Lesson 6 for the week of February 2 to February 9

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...

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Creation and Morality

• Lesson 5 for the week of January 26 to February 2

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...

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Creation, a Biblical Theme

• Lesson 4 for the week of January 19 to January 26

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...

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The Creation Completed

• Lesson 3 for the week of January 12 to January 19

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...

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Creation: Forming the World

• Lesson 2 for the week of January 5 to January 12

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...

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