Monday’s Lesson in this week’s Sabbath School lesson asks the question: What has been your own experience with having your motives or intentions, however well-meaning and sincere, questioned or challenged? What should that tell you about how careful you should be when questioning someone else’s motives? My dad and I studied today’s lesson over the … Continue reading –>
Prepared for Sabbath School class on August 29. Key Text: “For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you” (2 Corinthians 2:4, NKJV). Read in Class: 2 Corinthians … Continue reading –>
Spiritualism is gaining momentum. Even in Adventist circles, I have seen Adventists on Facebook wishing their dead loved ones a “happy heavenly birthday.” This concerns me, as we know spiritualism will be one of the great deceptions in the last days. The Bible still remains plain about the state of the dead and the resurrection … Continue reading –>
Prepared for Sabbath School Class on August 22. Key Text: “And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is also empty. . . . And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!” (1 Corinthians 15:14-17, NKJV). Read in Class: 1 Corinthians … Continue reading –>
Prepared for Sabbath School on August 15. Key Text: “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:13, NIV). Read in Class: 1 John 4:8 and 1 Corinthians 13:1-7. Study: How does Paul describe love? How does Paul describe God? If God is love, then … Continue reading –>
We were in our last couple of nights of evangelism meetings when a water pipe burst, flooding a room behind the sanctuary, near the baptistry entrance. One of the deacons told a local elder to help the other deacons pump the water out. The elder politely replied that he could not do that because he … Continue reading –>
Prepared for Sabbath School Class on August 8. Key Text: “Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy” (1 Corinthians 14:1, ESV). Read in Class: 1 Corinthians 12:1-2, 27-31. Study: What is Paul’s main emphasis, and why is the analogy of a body with its many parts appropriate to represent … Continue reading –>
Prepared for Sabbath School Class on August 1. Key Text: “Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31, NKJV). Read in Class: 1 Corinthians 8:-13. Study: Why does Paul contrast knowledge with love, and what is the context here? What point is he … Continue reading –>
Prepared for Sabbath School class on July 25. Key Text: “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20, NIV). Read … Continue reading –>
For good Sabbath afternoon viewing, see the video below created for our first lesson. I believe it will help us understand the rest of the two letters to the Corinthians, which we are studying. I know that, even after reading the letters multiple times, I gained a deeper understanding of them through a better grasp … Continue reading –>
