Daily Lesson for Thursday 18th of July 2024 Read Mark 3:20-21. What experience led Jesus’ family to consider Him out of His mind? A charge of mental instability is quite serious. Typically this arises from experiences where a person is a threat to his or her own safety. Jesus’ family felt this way about Him … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Wednesday 17th of July 2024 Read Mark 3:20-35. What connection do you see between the two stories intertwined in this passage? This passage is the first “sandwich story” in Mark, where one story is begun and then is interrupted by another story, with the first story completed only afterward. The outer story … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Tuesday 16th of July 2024 In Mark 2:23-24, the Pharisees accuse the disciples of breaking the Sabbath. According to Jewish tradition, 39 forms of labor were forbidden on the Sabbath, which, in the Pharisees’ minds, included what the disciples had done. Read Mark 2:23-28. How does Jesus counter the charge brought by … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Monday 15th of July 2024 Read Mark 2:13-22. Who was Levi, the son of Alphaeus, and why would there be an objection to him becoming a disciple of Jesus? Tax collectors in Jesus’ day were civil servants under the local or Roman government. They were unpopular among the Jewish population in Judea … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Sunday 14th of July 2024 Read Mark 2:1-12. What was the paralytic looking for when he was brought to Jesus, and what did he receive? The man was paralyzed; his four friends, therefore, had to carry him to Jesus. After they tore through the roof and let the man down into Jesus’ … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Sabbath 13th of July 2024 Read for This Week’s Study Mark 2:1-28; Mark 3:1-6, Micah 6:6-8, 1 Samuel 21:1-6, Mark 3:20-35, Luke 12:53, Luke 14:26. Memory Text: “And He said to them, ‘The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 12th of July 2024 By Andrew McChesney Father rested for several days at the house of his daughter, Divya, in Nepal. He was exhausted from his jobs as construction worker and shaman. Father watched with interest when the Seventh-day Adventist pastor of Divya’s church came to visit and brought several church … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Friday 12th of July 2024 Read Ellen G. White, “At Capernaum,” Pages 252–261; “Thou Canst Make Me Clean,” Pages 262–266, in The Desire of Ages. What picture of Jesus does Mark 1:1-45 present? Jesus has authority to call disciples, and they respond. He is holy in contrast to unclean spirits under … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Thursday 11th of July 2024 Read Mark 1:40-45. What does this teach us about Jesus and how He related to the marginalized in society? Leprosy as described in this passage, and throughout the Old Testament as well, did not refer only to what is known today as Hansen’s disease (bona fide leprosy). … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Wednesday 10th of July 2024 Read Mark 1:35-39. What important lessons can be taken from what Jesus did here? Jesus arose before sunrise and went out to a quiet, deserted location to pray. Mark 1:35 emphasizes prayer as the focus of Jesus’ action. All the other verbal forms in the sentence are … Continue reading –>
