What was God’s plan through the nation of Israel? How did the laws, commandments, and years of Jubilee send a powerful message to the surrounding nations about equity and caring for the marginalized and oppressed? Does God care about the less fortunate? What does it mean to love your neighbor in times of hardship? What is the difference between the letter and Spirit of the law?
How did Jesus' teachings portray the Great Controversy? In what way did Jesus describe the struggle between good and evil? How can we have rest in Jesus? In what ways does He lighten our burdens? With all the challenges we face in life, can this rest Jesus offers truly make a difference? What does the parable of the sower reveal about how people respond to the gospel? How does it portray the struggle between good and evil? What kind of ground best represents you and I? What did Jesus teach about foundations? How can we make Him our rock?
What is the significance of Pentecost? How was the resurrection of Jesus crucial to the event? How did this event manifest the role of the Holy Spirit? Is the gift of tongues a pre-requisite? What is the mission of the Church? What can we learn about the Pentecost experience that can help and inform our walk by faith? How should repentance and baptism play a role?
How do we grow in Christ? What does it mean to abide in Him? What is the new birth experience all about? How does one know they've truly been born again? What transformation does a person go through? We explore the topic of the new life in Christ this week. Learn how the Holy Spirit transforms people's lives.
The Bible teaches about a day lost in history. A day God designed for us to remember. This week's lesson uncovers the mystery of this forgotten and lost day.
The fact that we are called upon to endure trial shows that the Lord Jesus sees in us something precious which He desires to develop. If He saw in us nothing whereby He might glorify His name, He would not spend time in refining us. He does not cast worthless stones into His furnace. It is valuable ore that He refines.
With so much speculation about the Mark of the Beast, I’ve come across differing opinions as to what this mark actually means and what it will be. Some of the most common views are that the mark is a computer chip, a physical mark, or a tattoo placed in either the hand or the forehead. However, does this viewpoint really coincide with what the Bible teaches? When one looks up the word used for “mark” in “Mark of the Beast” many feel that it must be a tattoo and argue that the Bible teaches and warns us against piercings. While it is indeed true that Christians should not tattoo themselves, the Mark of the Beast is more complicated than a tattoo. The following is evidence that suggests why the Mark of the Beast could not be a physical mark, though physical marks may or may not be used in support of the authentic Mark of the Beast.
Like the Jewish nation of old, God has sent many evidences for you to believe in Him. If you reject the Bible, there is nature which speaks so loudly of the One, bigger than you and me, who holds this world in space. No scientist can explain God’s complex creation and maintenance system. The Darwin theory is just that – a theory... that has been pulled apart and found wanting. But God’s creation still stands a mystery to the most brilliant minds.