Author: Donald Bryson

  • Cleansing the Temple

    International Sunday School Lesson July 20, 2025 John 2:13–25 (NIV)13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove…

  • Lord of the Sabbath

    International Sunday School Lesson July 13, 2025 Matthew 12:1–8 (NIV)1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on…

  • The Boy Jesus In the Temple

    International Sunday School Lesson July 6, 2025 Luke 2:41–52 (NIV)41 Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. 43 After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus…

  • Jacob Sets Up A Sacred Pillar

    International Sunday School Lesson June 29, 2025 Genesis 28:10–22 (NIV)10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. 11 When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. 12 He had…

  • Isaac Calls on the Name of the Lord

    International Sunday School Lesson June 22, 2025 Genesis 26:23–33 (NIV)23 From there he went up to Beersheba. 24 That night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your…

  • Abraham Makes an Offering

    International Sunday School June 15, 2025 Summer Quarter #3 Genesis 22:1–14 (NIV)1 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. 2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on…

  • Noah Builds an Altar

    International Sunday School Lesson June 8, 2025 Genesis 8:13-22 (NIV) By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. [14] By the twenty-seventh…

  • The Offerings of Cain and Abel

    International Sunday School Lesson June 1, 2025, Summer Quarter #1 Genesis 4:1-16 (NIV) Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.” [2] Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept…

  • A Covenant Renewal

    International Sunday School Lesson May 25, 2025 Nehemiah 10:28-39 (NIV) “The rest of the people—priests, Levites, gatekeepers, musicians, temple servants and all who separated themselves from the neighboring peoples for the sake of the Law of God, together with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand— [29] all these…

  • Worship Is Restored

    International Sunday School Lesson May 18, 2025 Ezra 3:1-6 (NIV) When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, the people assembled together as one in Jerusalem. [2] Then Joshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates began to build the altar of…