Category: Sabbath School Commentary

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 […]

Week 3: “The Sabbath” This week, we get into the very core of Adventist beliefs — the one on which they hang their entire identity and reason for being. Anything […]

Lesson 2: “Blueprint for a Better World” In this week’s lesson, it becomes obvious that parts of Scripture are being used randomly, and often out of context, where it supports […]

Lesson 1: “God Created” The first three days of week one is setting up creation as the base from which to view our world.  In Saturday’s lesson we see this: […]

“The Least of These”—Introduction   In reading through this quarter’s lessons, I find a puzzling purpose expressed repeatedly as “justice” and “seeking justice”. I can’t tell if it’s talking about […]