Category: Sabbath School Commentary

  Lesson 6: “Finding Rest In Family Ties” This week’s lesson uses the story of Joseph to  say that “our relationships are miniature reflections of the great controversy between God […]

  Lesson 5: “‘Come to Me…’” This week’s lesson attempts to explain one of Jesus’ most beautiful statements—but one which seemed sentimental and metaphorical when I was an Adventist. As […]

  Lesson 4: “The Cost of Rest” This week’s lesson uses the story of David and Bathsheba to illustrate what it cost David to find rest for his soul after […]

  Lesson 3: “The Roots of Restlessness” This week’s lesson looks at the self-serving, hypocritical attitudes that lie under the surface of the human heart. The point of the lessons […]

  Lesson 2: “Restless and Rebellious” This week’s lesson looks at Israel’s rebellion that led to their 40 years of wilderness wandering. The lesson focusses on the people’s restlessness and […]

  Lesson 1: “Living in a 24–7 Society” This week’s lesson attempts to convince the reader that we need Sabbath rest—and that this rest involves physical rest and an inner […]

  Lesson 13: “The New Covenant Life” In this last lesson of the quarter, the first study begins with a sentence that reveals Adventism’s lack of “covenant understanding”. The author […]

  Lesson 12: “Covenant Faith” It should have been obvious to me long ago, but this week I finally saw, clearly, that the heart of Adventist soteriology is the Ellen […]

  Lesson 11: “New Covenant Sanctuary” This week’s lesson compares the sacrificial system of the Israelites with what Adventism teaches about the heavenly sanctuary. The lesson does not go into […]

  Lesson 10: “The New Covenant” I admit it: this next week’s Sabbath School lesson is so dishonest, is such an egregious perversion of Scripture, that I have a visceral […]

  Lesson 8: “Covenant Sign” This week’s lesson is all about Sabbath. It uses all the traditional Adventist arguments and proofs from an EGW worldview. In fact, if one is […]

  Lesson 8: “Covenant Law” This entire lesson is built upon a false premise, thus rendering the point of the lesson invalid. The false premise is the same one we […]

  Lesson 7: “Covenant At Sinai” The problem with this lesson is that the author attempts to call the Mosaic Covenant a “covenant of grace” exactly as were God’s covenants […]

  Lesson 6: “Abraham’s Seed” Today’s lesson is predicated on the Ellen White-driven belief that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is the true remnant church of Bible prophecy. It borrows from […]