Adult Sabbath School – How Shall We Wait?
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath School ~ Adults, Study on July 9th, 2016
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath School ~ Adults, Study on July 9th, 2016
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath School ~ Adults, Study on July 9th, 2016
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath School ~ Adults, Study on July 9th, 2016
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath School ~ Adults, Study on July 9th, 2016
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath School ~ Adults, Study on July 9th, 2016
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath School ~ Adults, Study on July 9th, 2016
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath School ~ Adults, Study on July 9th, 2016
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath School ~ Adults, Study on July 9th, 2016
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath School ~ Adults, Study on July 9th, 2016
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath School ~ Adults, Study on July 9th, 2016
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath School ~ Adults, Study on July 9th, 2016
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath School ~ Adults, Study on July 9th, 2016
Notes from Good Word
The lessons for this quarter are under the title, “The Role of the Church in the Community.” The primary focus of the lessons for the whole quarter is on God’s restorative work being done by and through the community of believers we call “the Church.” This work is quite wide in its scope and its legitimacy and mandate rest on a number of realities of presumptions that are important to understand. The goal of the whole process is sometimes referred to as “restoration,” that comprehensive work of God that has as its end the diminishing of the effects of sin, even its final eradication at the very end of things.
The whole notion of a restoration is built on the presumption that things are not now the way they were in the beginning. In order for something to be restored, it has to have once had a pristine existence that somehow became compromised so that its current state is less than its original state.
According to the Bible, the pristine nature of things as they were in the beginning was disrupted in very serious manner by the appearance of sin. The appearance of sin and the effects it brought upon this earth and those in it, is known as “the fall.”
It is the very fact of a fall that makes the gospel such good news, that God, working through the person and life and ministry of Jesus, has made provision for the restoration of earth and those on earth who trust him.
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath School ~ Adults, Study on July 9th, 2016
Notes from Good Word
The lesson this week asks us to reflect on a word that usually has some rather negative connotations, the word “dominion.”
According to the Genesis 1:26-28, the humans God created were given “dominion” (KJV language) over the earth. The kind of dominion envisioned here is not the adverse sort of dictatorship-style of things as much as it is the responsibility to nurture, care for, and administer the functions of creation at least as far as humans can do that. Notice in particular the comment about caring for and dressing the garden.
According to the biblical story, when Adam and Eve sinned, they lost their dominion. It was taken from them, or it slipped from their grasp and Satan became the one who usurped it claiming to be the ruler of the earth. Here is the foundational source of a lot of the troubles we see in the world.
Posted in Calendar, Sabbath Service, Worship on July 9th, 2016
Worship service led by Pastor Bob Rodd