Sabbath School Study Hour
You’ll get fresh and in-depth biblical insight from our popular Bible school program in time for your weekly quarterly lessons! Get into the Bible and grow in your faith.
Episodes
July 26, 2024
The main goal of Mark's Chapter 5 dramatic stories is to let the reader see who Jesus is. He is the One able to calm a storm, heal a demoniac, heal a woman who simply touches His clothes, raise a dead girl, preach in His home town, send out His disciples on a preaching mission, feed 5,000 with a few loaves and fishes, and walk on water—incredible displays of power that are drawing the disciples closer to an understanding that He is...
Mark as Played
July 19, 2024
For many years scholars have argued over the meaning and interpretation of Jesus’ parables: How to interpret them, what they mean, why Jesus used them, what kind of lessons they were intended to reveal, and how literally they were to be taken, or whether they were purely allegory, and so forth.
Obviously we are not going to solve all these issues in this week’s lesson. Instead, we are going to look at them and, by God grace, come a...
Mark as Played
July 12, 2024
The Gospel writer uses a technique that is called “Sandwich Stories.” This narrative pattern appears at least six times in Mark. In each case some important aspect of the nature of Jesus and His role as Messiah, or the nature of discipleship, is the focus.
This week, we will read some accounts about Jesus and see what we can learn from them.
Mark as Played
July 5, 2024
The Gospel of Mark recounts the calling of four disciples and describes a Sabbath in Capernaum and what followed. This “Sabbath with Jesus” at the beginning of Mark gives the reader a sense of who Jesus is. In the entire section for this week’s lesson there are very few of His words recorded: a brief call to discipleship, a command to a demon, a plan to visit other locations, and the healing of a leper with instructions to show him...
Mark as Played
June 28, 2024
This week's first step will be to learn about Mark as reported in Scripture, to see his early failure and eventual recovery. Then the study will turn to the opening section of Mark with a look forward to where the story is headed and a look backward at why a failed and then restored missionary would write such a text.
Mark as Played
June 21, 2024
In this quarter’s final lesson, we will see Christ’s steadfast love during the most exciting time in the history of the universe and His complete and total triumph in the great controversy between good and evil. The Bible’s last book, Revelation, gives us hope for today, tomorrow, and forever.
*Study this week’s lesson, based on chapters 39-42 of The Great Controversy.
Mark as Played
June 14, 2024
The aim of this week’s lesson is to reveal what the prophetic Word says about the closing events and discover a new Christ’s strength to take us through earth’s final conflict and get us home.
*Study this week’s lesson, based on chapters 37 and 38 of The Great Controversy.
Mark as Played
June 7, 2024
The aim of this week’s lesson is to reveal the coming conflict over worship. This week’s study emphasizes Jesus’ strength to take us through earth’s final conflict.
*Study this week’s lesson, based on chapters 35 and 36 of The Great Controversy.
Mark as Played
May 31, 2024
The aim of this lesson is to show that our only safeguard against Satan’s last-day delusions is a personal relationship with Christ and a solid grounding in the teachings of the Bible. This includes its teaching about death, regardless of what our eyes and ears and hearts might try to tell us.
*Study this week’s lesson, based on chapters 31–34 of The Great Controversy.
Mark as Played
May 24, 2024
The aim of this lesson is to show the link between the sanctuary, God’s law, the Sabbath, and the coming crisis over the mark of the beast. We will also explore the relevance of the Sabbath to an end-time generation.
*Study this week’s lesson, based on chapters 25–27 of The Great Controversy.
Mark as Played
May 17, 2024
This week we explore Christ’s ministry in heaven.
*Study this week’s lesson, based on chapters 22–24 and 28 of The Great Controversy.
Mark as Played
May 10, 2024
In this week’s lesson we will examine why the second coming of Christ has filled the hearts of believers with joy through the centuries and how we can be ready for that great event.
*Study this week’s lesson, based on chapters 18–21 of The Great Controversy.
Mark as Played
May 3, 2024
This week, we explore one of the most vicious attacks on the Scriptures and the Christian faith.
*Study this week’s lesson, based on chapters 12-17 of The Great Controversy.
Mark as Played
April 26, 2024
In this week’s study, with examples from the Reformation, we will explore how the life-changing teachings of Scripture provide the basis for genuine purpose and true meaning in life.
*Study this week’s lesson, based on chapters 7–11 of The Great Controversy.
Mark as Played
April 19, 2024
This week we will look at some biblical principles that motivated the Waldenses and later Reformers, such as Huss and Jerome, to stay faithful to the Lord no matter what—even at the threat of death from the same power that killed Polycarp: Rome, but now the papal phase.
Study this week’s lesson which is based on The Great Controversy, chapters 4–6.
Mark as Played
April 12, 2024
Yet even in life’s most difficult times, God was continually with His people. They found Jesus, “the way, the truth and the life” and, through the power of the Holy Spirit, they stood firm, even in the face of overwhelming pressure to yield their conscientious convictions. They stayed loyal to God’s revealed will in Scripture and unflinchingly stood for the truth of His Word, regardless of the pressure placed on them, either overtl...
Mark as Played
April 5, 2024
We will study Satan’s twofold strategy both to deceive and destroy God’s people. What the evil one fails to accomplish through persecution, he hopes to achieve through compromise. God is never caught by surprise, and even in the most challenging times He preserves His people.
Study this week’s lesson, based on The Great Controversy, chapters 1–2
Mark as Played
March 29, 2024
If God is so good, why is the world so bad? How can a God of love allow so much evil to exist? Why do bad things happen to good people? In this week’s lesson, we will explore the age-long conflict between good and evil.
Mark as Played
March 22, 2024
If there is a final word that we can draw from the Psalms, it should be “wait on the Lord.” Waiting on the Lord is not an idle and desperate biding of one’s time. Instead, waiting on the Lord is an act full of trust and faith, a trust and faith revealed in action.
Mark as Played
March 15, 2024
The Lord’s people are identified with the righteous, who worship the Lord and whose hope is in Him and in His love.
Mark as Played
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