Sabbath School Insights

A Daily Dose of Grace

2012-05-25T21:33:00.001-05:00

A Daily Dose of Grace In the United States, many of the States - if not all – have programs to screen newborns for some metabolic and genetic diseases. Those that show possible presence of a disease are referred to specialists for further testing and treatment, should they be diagnosed. This is important because once the symptoms for these diseases appear they cannot be reversed. For

Commentary: Incorporation

2012-05-18T20:05:00.001-05:00

Incorporation The word incorporation is used to define corporate; the main term in our quarterly this week. The word corporate here is used to distinguish between parts and the whole. The parts are the individual members of the church; the whole would be the members together. The root of the word corporate means body. So, it is no surprise that the meaning of the word corporate

Commentary: Potential

2012-05-11T20:49:00.001-05:00

Potential The word potential means, as an adjective: possible, as opposed to actual; capable of being or becoming. In other words, to use an example, we can talk about an athlete being a potential success, or a situation being potentially harmful. As a noun, it also means possible, but we no longer use the word to describe. Now we say instead that, "given the athlete's performance

Commentary: Spiritual Grown Up Babies

2012-05-04T21:06:00.001-05:00

Spiritual Grown Up Babies When asked to describe a baby, positive things come out first: small, cuddly, innocent, cute. When there are no more positive things to say, there is an awkward silence, which is broken by somebody suggesting that the cry a lot, they require too much attention. They awake at inopportune times. They require a lot of feeding, a lot of diapers, and cleaning

Commentary: A Light That Shines

2012-04-27T20:09:00.001-05:00

A Light That Shines There was man that lived in the mountains that would look every late afternoon across the valley unto the mountain on the other side. Why? He would look, because there was what seemed to be gold shining off the sunlight. He found it beautiful. He dreamed of one day going to this other mountain to take a closer look to what he thought was shining gold.

Spiritual Gifts for Evangelism and Witnessing

2012-04-20T20:54:00.001-05:00

Spiritual Gifts for Evangelism and Witnessing Due to extenuating circumstances there will be no commentary this week. So, instead, I leave with you a few notes. The word rendered as gift in the Greek is charisma 1) a favor with which one receives without any merit of his own 2) the gift of divine grace 3) the gift of faith, knowledge, holiness, virtue 4) the economy of divine grace,

How to Prepare to Work in the Field

2012-04-13T20:42:00.001-05:00

How to Prepare to Work in the Field Recently I was watching a documentary on the republic of China. There was a part in the documentary that dealt with agriculture. The first part of that section showed how they plowed and turned the soil to prepare it for sowing. The next part showed dozens of laborers walking up and down the field planting seeds. The next part showed how they irrigated

Commentary: Message and Method

2012-04-06T20:54:00.001-05:00

Message and Method A company that produces high end audio equipment is about to market their latest product: audiophile level speakers. Needless to say these will be sold for a very high price. There are, however several challenges, one of which is they have virtually no money for marketing. Marketing is to let potential buyers know of the product. Even with money it would have been a

Commentary: Ransom

2012-03-30T20:14:00.001-05:00

Ransom Mark goes into a shop and buys a refrigerator. Why does he do that? Obviously, because, he wants the refrigerator. He agrees with the merchant to pay for the refrigerator and the merchant will deliver it. If Mark has paid the price for it, having examined the refrigerator so as to know what he was buying and that what he is buying was worth the price he paid, does the merchant need to

Finding a Wife

2012-03-23T20:57:00.001-05:00

Finding a Wife A group of college seniors students were asked what was they're greatest concern that year (While the survey never happened, the conclusions are probably accurate). Most of them answered, "Having enough credits and good enough grades." Thos who were going into grad school added the entry exams (GRE, MCAT, etc.) and school admissions applications. Those who were hoping to

Commentary: Spiritual Pipettes

2012-03-16T20:02:00.001-05:00

Spiritual Pipettes In every field of work there are instruments and devices to perform that work. Each of these has their proper names and what they are used for also may have a name. In the laboratory where I work most of the tests are performed with automated and computerized instruments. There is no need to do make reagents. All that the instrument needs is pretty much supplied by the

Prayer as Breath

2012-03-09T20:02:00.001-06:00

Prayer as Breath Breathing is the process that moves air in and out of the lungs of many vertebrates. Air breathing organisms -- such as reptiles, birds and mammals -- require oxygen to release energy via respiration, in the form of the metabolism of energy-rich molecules such as glucose. Breathing is the only one process that delivers oxygen to where it is needed in the body and removes

Commentary: Interrelationship in History

2012-03-02T19:10:00.001-06:00

Interrelationship in History The reputation of Professor Menas preceded him. If you came in the class room when he was closing his roll book, he would not reopen it to mark you as present. The other thing he did was that only the highest score had an A, all others had B and the rest. But, he was a great teacher. He made history interesting. When he got excited about what he was teaching

SS LESSON 9: The Bible and History Pastor Paul Penno.mov

2012-02-26T07:35:00.000-06:00

Expanded SS Lesson 8 Creation Care: Pastor Paul Penno.mov

2012-02-26T07:31:00.000-06:00

Commentary: Creation Care: Why should we care?

2012-02-24T19:00:00.001-06:00

Creation Care: Why should we care? This is a different kind of commentary this week. The reason for this is that no matter how I looked at the subject I had no illustration to ponder and expand on the lesson. The title of our quarterly lesson is "glimpses of God." So, each week we are to ask ourselves: what glimpse of God can the subject in question give us? So, what glimpse of God does

Commentary: "Sabbath: A Day of Love"

2012-02-17T19:00:00.001-06:00

Sabbath: A Day of Love A group of young people from the Pentecostal Church in Ethiopia had heard Pastor John a 7th Day Adventist Preacher - and they put his name up to be a speaker at their camp meeting. The leaders of the Church were horrified that the young people had asked a Seventh-day Adventist preacher to be their speaker at camp meeting (this was for the youth department). There

"Lord of the Sabbath"

2012-02-14T07:06:00.002-06:00

Sabbath School TodayWith the 1888 Message DynamicGlimpses of Our GodLesson 7: "Lord of the Sabbath" Christ is Lord of the Sabbath, the Creator of all things, and the Institutor, with His Father, of the day of rest. He kept it, therefore those who have His life in them will keep it too. And they will not be afraid of the consequences, whether it be loss of position, loss of wealth or influence, or

Commentary: Written in the Heart

2012-02-10T20:50:00.001-06:00

Written in the Heart Geology is the science that deals with the history of the earth and its life especially as recorded in rocks; it is also defined as the geological features of an area. In geology, rock or stone is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids. The Earth's outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock. You may ask yourself, how that can

Commentary: Addi and Holiness

2012-02-03T18:52:00.001-06:00

Addi and Holiness The following study written by Lois E. Johannes was referred to me from a friend who thought it could be used as part of the commentary for this week. To introduce the story the author quoted, Psalms 51:10, "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew the right spirit within me." The story follows, "Addi wasn't really her name, but it served to identify our wrinkled,

Commentary: Wearing the Right Spiritual Glasses

2012-01-27T20:21:00.001-06:00

Wearing the Right Spiritual Glasses Manuel went to a clothing store to buy a black suit. He found one that pleased him, so he bought it. The suit still needed some alterations, so he left it in the store for a few says. Although, Manuel was pleased with his purchase there was uneasiness lingering. He did not like the lighting of the store. And, for some reason he had a thought ringing in

Commentary: Blood

2012-01-20T19:41:00.002-06:00

BBlood Blood is a constantly circulating fluid providing the body with nutrition, oxygen, and waste removal. Blood is mostly liquid, with numerous cells and proteins suspended in it, making blood "thicker" than pure water. The average person has about 5 liters (more than a gallon) of blood. A liquid called plasma makes up about half of the content of blood. Plasma contains proteins that help

Creation versus Evolution

2012-01-13T19:13:00.001-06:00

Creation versus Evolution Recently I was listening to a prominent Adventist Speaker talk about the importance of knowing the History of Christianity. He said that we also need to know Christian History in the light of the fulfillment of prophecy. He went to revelation 11, and identified the beast that comes out of the pit, as France during the French revolution. What was happening then?

Interdependence among the Godhead

2012-01-06T21:10:00.001-06:00

Interdependence among the Godhead Let us talk about trees. A tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 9 feet (3 m) to 18 feet (6 m); some authors set a

Commentary: When Adding leads to Replacing

2011-12-30T18:00:00.001-06:00

When Adding leads to Replacing For a special trip a man is given a luggage full of everything he will need for the trip. The luggage had no extra space for anything else. The truth is he needed nothing else that was not already in the luggage. He would not have any lack or leftovers. But, the man decided he wanted to take additional things. These were other things he wanted. Being that