(1608)Daily Lessons
(1608)(1608)Called Out of a Babyonian Mindset Into a Christ-Centered Mindset
Several years ago, I read Cowan and Kuenster’s compelling yet depressing book To Sleep With the Angels: The Story of a Fire. It was about a horrific fire where a Catholic school burned, and 92 students and three teachers perished. The book investigated all the things that went wrong that day. For example, the Mother … Continue reading –>
Sunday: The Very First Commandment
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 –>
Sabbath: The Nations: Part 2
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: Unlikely Church Planter
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 –>
Friday: Further Thought – ‘The Nations: Part 1’
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 –>
Thursday: A Light to the Gentiles
Daily Lesson for Thursday 24th of April 2025 The primary purpose for which God established the nation of Israel was not to condemn the rest of the world but to save it. Certainly, most of us feel condemned when we are confronted by righteous behavior in someone else; so the existence of Israel also served … Continue reading –>
Wednesday: The Rulers of the Gentiles
Daily Lesson for Wednesday 23rd of April 2025 God’s dealings with Israel provide rich insights into His dealings with the New Testament church. In fact, in many ways, the nation of Israel served to foreshadow the errors of the church. Far from being able to claim any kind of superiority to ancient Israel, Christians have … Continue reading –>
Tuesday: Given What You Asked For
Daily Lesson for Tuesday 22nd of April 2025 As originally established, Israel was not to have a human monarch, the way that other nations did. In time, however, the people’s faith faltered, and they found themselves pining for the things that “the nations,” the Gentiles, had. Read 1 Samuel 8:4-18. Why do you suppose the … Continue reading –>
Monday: Abraham’s Call
Daily Lesson for Monday 21st of April 2025 In the tenth chapter of Genesis, we see the birth of various nations. The word usually translated “nations” is goyim, which also can refer to Gentiles. Genesis 10:1-32 tells us that the human race divided up into lands, languages, families, and “nations” (Genesis 10:5; see also Revelation … Continue reading –>
Sunday: Nimrod and Nineveh
Daily Lesson for Sunday 20th of April 2025 Eden was created as the ideal home for the human race. Once sin entered, God had no choice but to separate humanity from the Garden and the tree of life, at least for now. Outside of the Garden, humans were required to work hard to provide for … Continue reading –>