Inside Story for Friday 2nd of May 2025 By Andrew McChesney When she was 12, Diana began drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana, and listening to hard rock music. Amid the partying, her thoughts turned to God. God hadn’t been much of a part of Diana’s early childhood. Her father spent a lot of time overseas as … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Friday 2nd of May 2025 Further Thought: Read Ellen G. White, “The Tower of Babel,” Pages 117–124, in Patriarchs and Prophets. “ ‘I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away.’ Revelation 21:1. The fire that consumes the wicked purifies … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Thursday 1st of May 2025 The remnant church was born in the New World, precisely where those seeking religious liberty had fled during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Given the long-standing religious and political obstacles that existed elsewhere, it is doubtful that the launch of this movement would have been as swift … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Wednesday 30th of April 2025 The land and sea imagery in the Bible, especially for prophecy, can be very instructive. Consider the case of the symbols of land and sea in Bible prophecy, which are contrasted sharply. “Symbolically, when earth and sea are juxtaposed, earth often represents the ordered world, or even … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Tuesday 29th of April 2025 The dream of Daniel 2:1-49 was first presented to a Babylonian king. The vision of Daniel 7:1-28, in contrast, was presented to a Hebrew prophet, a member of God’s covenant people. Daniel is shown the same subject as was Nebuchadnezzar but from a different perspective. Instead of … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Monday 28th of April 2025 It was during the Babylonian captivity, through the prophet Daniel, that God presented the most compelling descriptions we have of the relationship between His people and the kingdoms of this world. His people were no longer autonomous; they would now be reaping the consequences of their choices. … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Sunday 27th of April 2025 The Garden of Eden was a classroom for God’s first people, a place where their interaction with the creation would endlessly teach them and their offspring more about the Creator. “The holy pair were not only children under the fatherly care of God,” Ellen G. White pointed … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Sabbath 26th of April 2025 Read for This Week’s Study: Genesis 2:9-17; Daniel 2:31-35; Isaiah 17:12-13; Daniel 7:1-3; Romans 3:10-19; Revelation 12:15-16; Revelation 10:1-11. Memory Text: “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” (Psalms 46:10, NKJV). Through the … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 25th of April 2025 By Andrew McChesney When Sunita got married, her new family assumed that she would automatically become a Seventh-day Adventist. In her Asian culture, the wife does whatever the husband says, so her husband, Manoj, and his parents thought that she would adopt his faith as a matter … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Friday 25th of April 2025 Further Thought: Read Isaiah 44:24-28; Isaiah 45:1-13. “Little by little, at first in stealth and silence, and then more openly as it increased in strength and gained control of the minds of men, ‘the mystery of iniquity’ carried forward its deceptive and blasphemous work. Almost imperceptibly the … Continue reading –>
