Category: Sabbath School Commentary

  Week 9: “Creation: Genesis as Foundation—Part 2” This week’s lesson is largely useless. It spends the first two days trying to “disprove” the flat earth theory. Why?  Few people […]

  Lesson 8: Creation: Genesis as Foundation—Part 1 This week and next week we look at the concept of the creation week in Genesis as the foundation—but the foundation for […]

  Lesson 7: “How to Interpret Scripture: Language, Text and Context” This week, the lesson discusses the uses and limitations of language; as it rightly points out, many words and […]

  Lesson 6: “Why is Interpretation Needed?” The lesson starts off well, if perhaps a little long-winded, with a discussion of the importance of hermeneutics—how we interpret and understand the […]

  Lesson 5: “By Scripture Alone—Sola Scriptura” This week’s lesson is an amazingly well-constructed argument, and I must commend the author for how he put it together; and for how […]

  Lesson 4: “The Bible—the Authoritative Source of Our Theology” The lesson this week examines some of the things that can influence our thoughts, beliefs and behaviors. It lists them […]

Lesson 3: “How to Interpret the Bible” This week continues the work of establishing God’s Word as truth and our only safe foundation of “doctrine, reproof and correction” (2 Tim. […]

  Lesson 2: “How To Interpret Scripture” This second week sets out to establish the origin and ‘nature’ of the Bible. That is an important starting point as its very […]

  Introduction and Lesson 1: “The Uniqueness Of the Bible” This quarter’s lessons are entitled How to Interpret God’s Word—a noble theme for a Bible study and a very necessary […]

  Lesson 13: “From Dust to Stars” Chapters 10-12 are all one, continuous narrative, one vision and the following conversation between Daniel and the one instructing him. There are some […]

  Lesson 12: “From North and South to the Beautiful Land” Before we start a discussion of this week’s lesson, I want to reiterate my position on prophecy. On issues […]

  Lesson 11: “From Battle to Victory” Daniel 10 is an introduction to chapters 11 and 12, the last two chapters of the book, and the three of them together […]

  Lesson 10: “From Confession to Consolation” This week we deal with Daniel 9 which consists of two separate parts. First, there is Daniel’s prayer followed by God’s answer which […]

  Lesson 9: “From Contamination to Purification” To begin this week’s lesson, I want to re-state some of what I said in last week’s lesson comments. As we continue with […]

  Lesson 8: “From the Stormy Sea to the Clouds of Heaven” As we get into the later chapters of Daniel that contain prophecies of end-times, we come to subjects […]