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Join the Hit the Mark panel as they discuss Sabbath School Lesson 5 – Miracles Around the Lake. It’s the fastest hour of the week!
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by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 2 August 2024 The Bible has a fair amount of dirt in it. In Matthew 13, for example, is the familiar parable about sowing seed, and the growth in different types of soil. It’s an Adventist favorite. Sometimes it was presented as a cautionary tale: “Be good soil! Be deep, […] Source: https://atoday.org/the-need-for-nurture/
Daily Lesson for Sabbath 3rd of August 2024
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Read for This Week’s Study
Mark 7:1-37, Isaiah 29:13, Exodus 20:12, Mark 8:11-21.
Memory Text:
“ ‘There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man’ ” (Mark 7:15, NKJV).
This week’s study is Mark 7:1-37 and the first half of Mark 8:1-38. At the beginning of Mark 7:1-37, Jesus stirs up controversy by His rejection of religious tradition. However, He does it in a way that is strikingly supportive of something deeply relevant to Christian life today.
Jesus then presents a riddle that opens the door to a true understanding of what faith is really about.
After this He goes to Tyre and Sidon and has an encounter with a woman who was the only person in the Gospels to win an argument with Jesus. His encounter with her is unusual, and underneath it there are a few secret communications the woman picked up on. And because of her faith, Jesus granted her request.
Mark 7:1-37, with another healing, reveals the important truth that, however impressive miracles can be, they alone are often not enough to open hearts to truth. After all, what good did the miracles do for the religious leaders who were bent on rejecting Jesus?
In Mark 8:1-38 the study looks at the significance of bread as a symbol of teachings and traditions. These stories contain great lessons about the meaning and practice of religious life.
*Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, August 10.
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This week, Adventist World Radio was at the Paris Olympics, working with 95 young people in conjunction with ASI France and the North France Conference to distribute literature to the attendees. AWR has printed 1.1 million tracts, as well as tens of thousands of copies of The Desire of Ages, and each tract and book contains a QR code to connect people with a live Bible instructor and additional study material. AWR Literature Evangelism Coordinator Nelson Ernst has reported that crowds are receptive, with 25% of people accepting a tract. At the moment, 60 young people are distributing tracts and 35 are giving out books. Please pray for these efforts, which will continue through August 11. If you would like to join AWR on an upcoming evangelistic or health mission trip (such as Rwanda for Christ in 2025) visit awr.org/missiontrips Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l06-FICX4fw
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