Category: Sabbath School Commentary

Quarter Three: Making Friends For God   Introduction and Lesson 1: “Why Witness?” Dedicating 13 weeks to the goal of sharing the gospel is an ambitious undertaking. The introduction and […]

  Lesson 13: “Living by the Word of God” In summing up this quarter’s lessons, we now come to the goal of rightly understanding, or interpreting, the Bible—living by the […]

  Lesson 12: “Dealing With Difficult Passages” This week’s lesson is a pleasant surprise. It is very straight forward and contains some very good advice on the quarter’s main idea […]

  Lesson11: “The Bible and Prophecy” I see some more irony in this week’s lesson on how to interpret the Bible. It uses prophecy as the subject and it tries […]

  Lesson 10: “The Bible as History” This week we look at some of the historical accounts in the Bible and how they impact our understanding of people and events […]

  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 […]