Discussion issues: 1. Is the Day of the Lord good news or bad? Both in biblical times and in our day, “judgment” is a very ambiguous words . Psalm 96 and 98, for example, represent the positive...
The Last Five Kings of Judah
October 10, 2015
Leading Question: What happens when God’s people hear that they are no better in God’s eyes than the more obvious “sinners” in the world? Discussion Issues: 1. Startling Comparisons: Israel and her neighbors. The book of Amos...
Leading Question: What do natural disasters tell us about the God we serve? Note on the book of Joel: The book of Joel offers several “special” themes that are worth pursuing in a Sabbath School study: Theology: What...
Theme: Love and Judgment: God’s dilemma (second of two lessons on Hosea) Leading Question: How do we know when to use the heavy hand instead of the gentle hand with dealing with God’s people? The sharp contrasts...
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...
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”…
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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