Category: Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 1: “God’s Mission to Us: Part 1” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: This quarter’s focus is encouraging individual proselytizing. The lesson is based on the paradigm of […]

Lesson 14: “Ephesians In the Heart” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The lesson diminishes the point of Ephesians by overlooking the place of the cross in God’s creating one […]

Lesson 13: “Waging Peace” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: This lesson’s chief aim is to emphasize that Adventism is defined by the great controversy motif.  The author’s understanding […]

Lesson 12: “The Call to Stand” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The lesson equates Paul’s instruction to put on and stand in God’s armor with fighting in the […]

Lesson 11: “Practicing Supreme Loyalty to Christ” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The biggest problem with this lesson is the underlying Adventist worldview that doesn’t understand that the […]

Lesson 10: “Husbands and Wives: Together at the Cross” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The author writes without understanding the new birth and the new identity we have […]

Lesson 9: “Living Wisely” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: This lesson takes the texts from Ephesians 5 out of sequence to make points about good lifestyle. The significance […]

Lesson 7: “The Unified Body of Christ” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The author does not understand the impact of the Holy Spirit’s indwelling believers but admonished readers […]

Lesson 6: “The Mystery of the Gospel” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson again eviscerates the power of the gospel and the depth of what Paul was […]

Lesson 5: “Horizontal Atonement: The Cross and the Church” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: Although the author says the cross is the means of Christ’s uniting Jews and […]

Lesson 4: “How God Rescues Us” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson is almost right—and yet its confusion fails to explain humanity’s natural state and the reality […]

Lesson 3: “The Power of the Exalted Jesus” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems With This Lesson:  This entire lesson is premised on not understanding the nature of spiritual life in believers. […]

Lesson 2: “God’s Grand, Christ-Centered Plan” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems With This Lesson: The lesson states early on that “we lose salvation only by our own sinful choices.” There is […]

Lesson 1: “Paul and the Ephesians” COLLEEN TINKER   Problems with this lesson: The lesson states that the epistle’s purpose is “to awaken the believers in Ephesus to their full […]