Trouble in the Home – Hagar and Sarah

It is interesting how the lesson speaks about trouble in the home solely from the side of Sarah. Here is Hagar, a slave, whose body was used by Sarah and Abraham for the sole purpose of getting a son. And then, according to the scriptures, Hagar mocked Sarah (Gen 21:9).

Usually when we read these text we emphasize that the problem of disbelief can cause many problems for us. And that is true. This story demonstrates that the wrong decision can cause much strife for many years.

Questions on Doctrine PDF Download

The book Seventh-day Adventist’s Answer Questions on Doctrine can be downloaded in PDF format this link. You can also look at the same book in HTML format at this link. These are the original 1957 edition of the book.

Lying to Save Your Skin or Standing up

Genesis 12:11-13 gives the story of Abraham telling a partial truth to protect himself from death. Abraham was scared that the Egyptians would kill him and take his wife from him. We will set aside the acidic belief that Abraham had that he and his tribe alone “feared” God. That discussion alone deserves more time. However we will look at how Abraham did something that the weak have always done to protect themselves from the strong. Engaged in deception.

Abraham and Faith -

This weeks Sabbath School lesson provides a look at the father of the faithful and what we can learn from such a look. One thing that we can learn from Sunday’s and Monday’s lesson is that this father of the faithful wasn’t always pictured as exactly our idea of what is faithful in the text.

The Promise to Abraham

Problems of Some Black Preaching

The problem of some Black preaching that makes it difficult to engage in authentic Adventist preaching is that we often celebrate, according to Rock, “doctrinal neutrality camouflaged in verbal vehemence.”

Problems of Some SDA Preaching

Calvin Rock speaks about the necessity for Black Preachers to make use of their cultural experiences in their sermons as well as staying truly “Adventist” in their preaching. Then he notes that there are two problems that can stand in the way of a Black Adventist Preacher from doing this effectively.

Rock notes:

Lamb Horned Beast Chronicles

Many in the Adventist Blogosphere are fuming over the Scooter Libby situation. Ryan Bell, Johnny Ramirez, and the Oak Leaves blog are all talking about this situation.