Considering Jesus' Teachings

For this week’s lesson on Jesus’ teachings and the Great Controversy, we have drawn our commentary from a 2008 article by Ernest J.
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Bring on the Desert!

Note: This commentary is based on the Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath School Quarterly, First Quarter 2016, Lesson 6: “Victory in the Wilderness.”...
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The Stranger in the Gate

Then Haman said to King Xerxes, “There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves...
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Paul and His Opinions

Nearly two thousand years ago, a Pharisaic convert to the fledgling Jesus movement wrote an impassioned letter to the church at Corinth. In this now...
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Praying for Open Eyes: See Yourself as...

The Homeless Princess How do you see yourself today? I’d like you to see yourself as God sees you. Let me hold up a mirror. One upon a time there was...
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January

January is here, with eyes that keenly glow, A frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow. Excerpt from “The Masque of Months” by Edgar...
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Not Unique to Adventism, But the Heart...

This quarter’s Sabbath School lesson is on the Great Controversy—that most distinctive of Adventist doctrines. According to the late Herb Douglass,...
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Come Immanuel: God’s Reign of...

The prophetic quest for “judgment and righteousness” is the quest for fairness and justice upon the earth.  It represents the collective sigh of the...
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The Covenant

Among the 52 chapters of the prophetic book of Jeremiah the most intriguing concept is the New Covenant. Would we like to know what is a “Covenant”...
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December

In drear-nighted December,    Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne’er remember    Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them With a...
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