Join It Is Written Sabbath School host Eric Flickinger and this quarter’s author, Dr John McVay, as they provide additional insights into this week’s Sabbath School lesson (3)
Continue reading -->You can view an in-depth discussion of How God Rescues Us in the Hope Sabbath School class led by Pastor Derek Morris. Click on the image to view: With thanks to Hope Channel – Television that will change your life. (1)
Continue reading -->“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us” (Ephesians 2:4, NKJV). Here, with two powerful words, “But God,” Paul pivots from his doleful portrait of the past lives of his audience (Ephesians 2:1-3) to the new, hope-filled realities that mark their lives as believers (Ephesians 2:4-10). What sense do believers … Continue reading –>
Lesson 4 *July 15-21 How God Rescues Us SABBATH AFTERNOON Read for This Week’s Study: Ephesians 2:1-10 ; Ephesians 5:14 ; Romans 5:17 ; Ephesians 5:6 ; 2 Timothy 1:7 . Memory Text: “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in … Continue reading –>
“ All of us also lived among them [the disobedient] at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath” (Ephesians 2:3, NIV). Apart from the intervention of God, human existence is dominated not only by the external forces mentioned in Ephesians 2:2-3, … Continue reading –>
The book of Ephesians does show us “How to Follow Jesus in Trying Times”: Hymn 623 – I Will Follow Thee, My Saviour so that our actions will always speak louder than our words. This week’s title encourages us to follow in God’s footsteps and help to Rescue the Perishing – Hymn 367 because of the wonderful … Continue reading –>
Key Thought: Here Paul contrasts our sinful existence with the blessings of God’s solution and celebrates the basis of salvation in the grace and creative work of God. July 22, 2023 1. Have a volunteer read Ephesians 2:1-3. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this … Continue reading –>
Read Ephesians 2:1-10. What is the main idea that Paul is giving us here about what Jesus has done for us? Paul has already described the salvation given to Christians (Ephesians 1:3-14, Ephesians 1:15-23) and told, in brief, the story of the believers in Ephesus (Ephesians 1:13). In Ephesians 2:1-10, Paul will now tell their conversion story in more detail, with … Continue reading –>
Sabbath Afternoon Read for This Week’s Study: Ephesians 2:1-10; Ephesians 5:14; Romans 5:17; Ephesians 5:6; 2 Timothy 1:7. Memory Text: “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ” (Ephesians 2:4-5, ESV). On October 14, 1987, eighteen-month-old Jessica McClure was playing in her … Continue reading –>
The Mission program of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is an opportunity for us to understand the needs of others and share in supporting them. Please click on the image below to watch the Mission Spotlight presentation for this week: (2)
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