Category: Sabbath School Commentary

  Lesson 5: “Violating the Spirit of the Law” This week deals with how the Israelites were behaving and how Nehemiah had to step in to stop their mistreatment of […]

  Lesson 4: “Facing Opposition” This week’s lesson follows the continuing story fairly well and does a good job of pointing out that Zerubbabel had to refuse the offers of […]

  Lesson 3—”God’s Call” This week’s lesson starts off well regarding our calling from God. Not all are called for the same tasks and God does seem to use our […]

Lesson 2—”Nehemiah”   Sabbath afternoon From the lesson: Although the first two groups returned to rebuild Jerusalem and to complete part of that project by finishing the temple, the rest […]

Introduction and Lesson 1—Making sense of history: Zerubbabel and Ezra   Comments on the Introduction: “The gospel According to Ezra and Nehemia” This study of Ezra and Nehemiah is full […]

  Week 11: “Living the Adventist Hope” There is so much encouragement and hope brought out in this week’s lesson—hope for the future for those in Christ, hope for the […]

Week 10: “Living The Gospel”   This week’s lesson starts out with a very profound and very simple statement followed by a question: But the Bible tells us repeatedly that […]

  Week 9: “A New Kind of Community” From the lesson: While it seems the Israelites had failed to ever fully live out the blueprint for a just and generous […]

  Week 8: “The Least of These” This lesson starts out very well. It accurately handles the Word of God and stays true to the word in explaining the practical […]

  Week 7: “Jesus and Those in Need”   Mary’s Song The question at the end of the day’s lesson asks how the church could model this “up-side-down kingdom” without […]

  Week 6: “Worship the Creator” I found this whole lesson to be troubling and difficult to handle. There are few individual problem areas that I can address; in general, […]

  Week 5: “The Cry of the Prophets” There is not much in this week’s lesson that is good or that makes accurate use of God’s Word. It is, first […]

Week 4: “Mercy and Justice in Psalms and Proverbs”   In quoting C. S. Lewis, the lesson makes a good point. “Observing that many Bible readers today consider judgment something […]