Daily Lesson for Tuesday 12th of December 2023 Bible scholars believe that the Gospel of Matthew had been written specifically for a Jewish audience, and that Mark was written with primarily a Gentile audience in mind. It is helpful to keep this distinction before us as we study the Gospels. Read Matthew 15:1-39:22-28 and Mark … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Monday 11th of December 2023 Despite challenges, external and internal, Jesus graciously extends the call to us for His mission to the cities. Read Matthew 9:35-38. What does this teach us about mission to the multitudes, wherever we find them? Jesus was moved with compassion for the multitudes, such as are … Continue reading –>
“God’s Mission – My Mission” consistently points us to our Gracious God and how He wishes us to portray what He has done for us. In response we will reach out to others: Hymn 573 – I’ll Go Where You Want Me To Go, Dear Lord, hence our theme hymn. This is in response to So Send … Continue reading –>
Key Thought: In humility, we go into the cities seeking out those who, when presented with the truth, will respond to a saving faith in Jesus. December 16, 2023 A. Have a volunteer read Matthew 9:35-38. B. Have a volunteer read Matthew 15:22-28, Mark 7:24-30. C. Have a volunteer read Acts 10:9-16, 28, 34,35. D. … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Sunday 10th of December 2023 We read that Jesus took His disciples from Gennesaret (Matthew 14:34) “and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon” (Matthew 15:21, NKJV). Why did He take them from Galilee to these pagan places? He leads His disciples on this field trip into the borders of these … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Sabbath 9th of December 2023 Read for This Week’s Study 1 Kings 11:1-6; Matthew 4:23-25; Matthew 15:22-28; Mark 7:24-30; Acts 10:34-35; Matthew 8:10,13. Memory Text: “Then Jesus answered and said to her, ‘O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.’ And her daughter was healed from … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Friday 8th of December 2023 One of the primary takeaways from the story of Paul’s experience at the Areopagus is its on-the-ground study of how to approach an unreached group of unbelievers, which resulted in a small group of believers starting in Athens. “The words of the apostle, and the description of … 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:
Continue reading -->Mary, an elderly lady in the Tampa First Seventh-day Adventist Church, where I served as a Bible Worker years ago, told me how she became a Seventh-day Adventist in the early ’30s in British Honduras, now Belize. She was school age, when her little brother noticed a huge tent going up in town. He told … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Thursday 7th of December 2023 Read Acts 17:24-34. How does Paul continue his witness? It’s also interesting to note that Paul actually quoted some of their own writers, who, having written something fairly close to biblical truth, gave Paul an opening to take his hearers further along. That is, he used … Continue reading –>
