Author: donnie

  • Preaching to the Exiles

    International Sunday School May 23, 2021 Spring #12 The word of the LORD came to me: (2) “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: “‘The parents eat sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’? (3) “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, you…

  • Preaching Doom

    International Sunday School Lesson May 16 2021 Lesson #10 14 Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and had him brought to the third entrance to the temple of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” the king said to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”15 Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If…

  • Offering Hope for the Future

    International Sunday School May 9, 2021 Spring Quarter #10 Isaiah 29:13-24 (NIV) The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught. (14) Therefore once more…

  • The Nation’s Plea

    International Sunday School April 25, 2021 #8 Remember, LORD, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace. (2) Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. (3) We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows. (4) We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only…

  • The Restoring Builder

    International Sunday School April 18, 2021 Spring #7 Nehemiah 2:11-20 (NIV) 11I went to Jerusalem, and after staying there three days 12I set out during the night with a few others. I had not told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no mounts with me except the…

  • The Faith-in-Action Preacher

    International Sunday School April 11, 2021 Spring #6 While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites–men, women and children–gathered around him. They too wept bitterly. (2) Then Shekaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have…

  • The Suffering Servant

    International Sunday School April 4, 2021 Spring #4 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. (5) But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by…

  • Prophet of Courage

    International Sunday School March 28, 2021 Spring Quarter #4 Ahab had said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grass to keep the horses and mules alive so we will not have to kill any of our animals.” (6) So they divided the land they…

  • Prophet of Wisdom

    International Sunday School March 21, 2021 Spring #3 2 Kings 22:12-20 He gave these orders to Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Akbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the secretary and Asaiah the king’s attendant: (13) “Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah about what is…

  • Prophet of Conquest

    International Sunday School March 14, 2021 Spring #2 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” (14) “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander…