Daily Lesson for Sunday 2nd of February 2025 Throughout Scripture, love and justice go together. True love requires justice, and true justice can be governed by and meted out only in love. We are not used to thinking of these two concepts together, but that is only because both love and justice have been greatly … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Sabbath 1st of February 2025 Read for This Week’s Study: Psalms 33:5, Psalms 85:10, Deuteronomy 32:4, James 1:17, Titus 1:2, Exodus 32:14, Matthew 5:43-48. Memory Text: “ ‘But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 31st of January 2025 By Andrew McChesney American missionary Joanne (Park) Kim locked herself in her apartment after being attacked by four drunken strangers in Mongolia. She was hurt, scared, and crying. She wanted to return home to the United States. After two days, another missionary came to see her. She … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Friday 31st of January 2025 Read Ellen G. White, “Idolatry at Sinai,” Pages 315–330, in Patriarchs and Prophets. In the context of the sin of the golden calf, Ellen G. White wrote: “The Israelites had been guilty of treason, and that against a King who had loaded them with benefits and whose … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Thursday 30th of January 2025 While divine wrath is a “terrible” thing, it is by no means immoral or unloving. On the contrary, in the Old and New Testaments, God expresses wrath against evil because of His love. Divine wrath is terrible because of the insidious nature of evil in contrast to … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Wednesday 29th of January 2025 Throughout the Bible, God repeatedly displays His passion in favor of the downtrodden and the oppressed and His corresponding righteous indignation against the victimizers and oppressors. If there were no evil, God would not be angry. His anger is only and always against that which harms His … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Tuesday 28th of January 2025 While there are many inappropriate forms of anger, the Bible also teaches that there is “righteous indignation.” Imagine a mother watching her three-year-old daughter playing at the playground and then, suddenly, a man attacks her daughter. Should she not be angry? Of course, she should. Anger is … Continue reading –>
A time to kill, And a time to heal; Ecclesiastes 3:3 NKJV I was having dinner with a friend from church, at the Olive Garden restaurant not far from the church. She was explaining some new and “wonderful” things she was learning about hell from a Christian website. She explained how God does not destroy … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Monday 27th of January 2025 God becomes angry at evil because God is love. God is so compassionate and gracious that one biblical prophet even chastised God for being too merciful! Consider the story of Jonah and reflect on Jonah’s reaction to God’s compassionate forgiveness of the Ninevites, in Jonah 4:1-4. What … Continue reading –>
Daily Lesson for Sunday 26th of January 2025 The God of the Bible loves justice and hates evil. Sin and evil, therefore, provoke Him to passion, a passion expressed on behalf of those oppressed and abused, and even in cases in which one’s evil affects primarily oneself. God hates evil because evil always hurts His … Continue reading –>
