Category: Sabbath School Commentary

  BY JEANIE JURA Lesson 2: “Moses’ History Lesson” This week’s lesson gives a history of the first part of Moses’ address to the people as he recounts their journey. […]

BY JEANIE JURA Introduction and Lesson 1: “Preamble to Deuteronomy” Comments on Introduction and week 1 This quarter’s lesson is based on some assumed ideas. Five of them are un-Biblical, […]

Lesson 13: “The Ultimate Rest” This week’s lesson opens with the reminder that “the great controversy also is being played out on a much more personal level.” The point of […]

  Lesson 12: “The Restless Prophet” This week’s lesson seems almost like an anomaly, a lesson that doesn’t fit a quarter’s studies about Sabbath rest. Yet the placement of this […]

Lesson 11: “Longing For More” This lesson is an egregious misuse Hebrews 4, but it is true Adventism. In fact, this lesson reminds me why I used to hate reading […]

Lesson 10: “Sabbath Rest” This week’s lesson exposes the false foundation and Ellen White hermeneutic upon which Adventism builds its doctrines. I confess that this lesson is hard for me […]

  Lesson 9: “Rhythms of Rest” This week’s Sabbath School lesson illustrates Adventism’s mastery of creating a narrative without any biblical support or hermeneutical integrity. The lesson’s weaving of Adventist […]

  Lesson 8: “Free to Rest” This week’s lesson takes the New Testament story of the paralytic let down through the ceiling in order to reach Jesus for healing along […]

  Lesson 7: “Rest, Relationships, and Healing” This next week’s lesson is again using the story of Joseph—this time to make a case for forgiveness. Unfortunately, however, this lesson can’t […]

  Lesson 6: “Finding Rest In Family Ties” This week’s lesson uses the story of Joseph to  say that “our relationships are miniature reflections of the great controversy between God […]

  Lesson 5: “‘Come to Me…’” This week’s lesson attempts to explain one of Jesus’ most beautiful statements—but one which seemed sentimental and metaphorical when I was an Adventist. As […]

  Lesson 4: “The Cost of Rest” This week’s lesson uses the story of David and Bathsheba to illustrate what it cost David to find rest for his soul after […]

  Lesson 3: “The Roots of Restlessness” This week’s lesson looks at the self-serving, hypocritical attitudes that lie under the surface of the human heart. The point of the lessons […]

  Lesson 2: “Restless and Rebellious” This week’s lesson looks at Israel’s rebellion that led to their 40 years of wilderness wandering. The lesson focusses on the people’s restlessness and […]