November 23–29, 2024
Lesson 9: “The Source of Life” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: The confusion of Adventism attempting to teach Jesus as the Source of life in the context […]
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Category: Sabbath School Commentary
November 16–22, 2024
Lesson 8: “Fulfilling Old Testament Prophecies” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: True to form for this quarter’s Sabbath School lessons, this week’s studies are not overtly “wrong”. […]
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November 9–15, 2024
Lesson 7: “Blessed Are Those Who Believe” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This lesson represents itself as explaining the blessings of “belief”, but the essence of “belief” […]
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November 2–8, 2024
Lesson 6: “More Testimonies About Jesus” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson compiles passages from John 1, John 3, and John 5, 6, and 7 […]
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October 26–November 1, 2024
Lesson 5: “The Testimony of the Samaritans” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: The story of the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4 contains one of […]
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October 19–25, 2024
Lesson 4: “Witnesses of Christ as the Messiah” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This quarter’s lessons are especially frustrating because they skate over the significance of […]
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October 12–18, 2024
Lesson Three: “The Backstory: The Prologue” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson addresses John 1 in which John echoes Genesis 1:1, presenting the Lord […]
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October 5–11, 2024
Lesson 2: “Signs of Divinity” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s Sabbath School lesson breezes over three of John’s most revealing accounts of Jesus’ true […]
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September 28–October 4, 2024
Lesson 1: “Signs That Point the Way” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This quarter the Sabbath School lessons are a series focussing on the gospel of […]
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September 21–27, 2024
Lesson 13: “The Risen Lord” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This lesson covers the end of Mark 15:42–16:6 where Mark writes about Jesus’ resurrection. Yet although […]
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September 14–20, 2024
Lesson 12: “Tried and Crucified” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: In this week’s lesson covering Mark 15 and the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus, the Sabbath […]
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September 7–13, 2024
Lesson 11: “Taken and Tried” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This lesson deals with Mark 14 which opens with Jesus’ being anointed with perfume at Simon […]
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August 31—September 6, 2024
Lesson 10: “The Last Days” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson addresses Mark 12:41–44 through Mark 13:32. Here Mark recounts Jesus’s teaching about things […]
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August 24–30, 2024
Lesson 9: “Jerusalem Controversies” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: More and more these lessons reveal Adventism’s downplaying of the eternal, divine authority of the Lord Jesus […]
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August 17–23, 2024
Lesson 8: “Teaching Disciples: Part II” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s studies reveal Adventism’s underlying emphasis on morality lessons, on keeping the law and […]
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