Lesson 2: Preparing a People

Some day I’d like to return Madrid, Spain.  I really would.  But right now, right now it’s no where in sight.  So, I’m not making any plans.  I’m not scoping out ticket prices.  I’m not figuring out where I’m going to stay.  No bags are being packed.  I wonder if this lesson resonates with the [...]

Lesson 12: John’s Letter to the Chosen Lady

The relationship between truth and love seems to be something most of us miss in practice.  When you really think about it though, can you have one without the other?  Can you be a doctrine-abiding Christian SDA without love?  Can you love without knowing the truth?
Assume it’s possible to know truth and not love [...]

Lesson 10: Confidence

First John 5:14 states “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us”. So how to we define confidence? According to the Greeks, confidence is reliance, dependence or trust. For this week, we will define confidence as freedom of speech.

All my life [...]

Lesson 9: Believing in the Son of God

so this post comes late, which means i’m filling in…thing is, i only made it through the first 30 minutes of sabbath school this past sabbath so that’s going to be the focus of this very short delayed lesson review.
We’ll pick things up again with the memory text, “Who is it that overcomes the [...]

Lesson 4: Walking in the Light: Keeping His Commandments

A pastor had been counseling a husband and wife. The problem was that, the husband had been having extramarital affairs. That’s not an extramarital affair but, in fact, many of them. The husband tried to calm the situation by telling the wife that although he had been with other women, it didn’t mean that he [...]

Lesson 1: Jesus and the Johannine Letters

This quarter, we will be reading other people’s mail. It’s all the more exciting because we’re not merely glancing through a stack of old bills or pieces of junk mail. We’re catching a glimpse of the juicy stuff - the stuff that’s typically forbidden and off limits to anyone but the recipients. In this case, [...]

Lesson 12: Connected by Love and encouraged in the Journey

Each and everyone of us has the priviledge to become a part of God’s family. This weeks lesson guide teaches us how we are connected by love as christians.We might be far away from each other but as long as we are connected by love, we are always one in the Lord. We all know [...]

Lesson 6: Sin

I just looked in the mirror and realized that for every sin I committed this week, there’s probably a visible manifestation on my face.  I had a really trying week and worry consumed me taking me from one stupid decision to the next, until Friday I just felt as though I was drowning in a [...]

Lesson 5: Revelation

Excerpt from ‘A Drama: God Reveals Himself to Man’

Act I

Scene I:
Setting: The beginning. A void, uninhabited corner of the universe. The emptiness and blackness of space are overwhelming and the silence is heavy.
Characters: The Godhead, hosts of Heaven observing from a distance
God: Let the heavens and the earth come into existence. Bring forth the world, [...]

Lesson 10: The Message of the Prophets

Thou shalt not go to clubs
Thou shalt not wear jewelry
Thou shalt not use drums in the church
Thou shalt not dance
Thou shalt not dance in the church
Thou shalt not clap your hands in the church
Thou shalt let everyone at the funeral home know that their grandma is NOT in heaven but termite food six feet under.

It’s a fine line between cheap grace and legalism