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The way to permanent peace
For the lesson titled "God" from June 25 - July 1, 2012
The Golden Text from Job in this week’s Lesson, titled “God,” asserts that as we get to know God, we experience peace. A wonderful promise, but how do we know God?
In the Responsive Reading, the Apostle Paul announces to the men of Athens, “The One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you” (Acts 17:23, New King James Version). He goes on to teach these Greeks what he knows about God—that God made all, that God doesn’t dwell in a building (temple), that God doesn’t need anything from men; indeed, it is men who get life from Him.
Through these declarations about the nature of God, Paul urges the Athenians to give up their sense of Deity as unknowable, and embrace God as All-in-all. Paul was in faraway Greece where men knew little of Christianity, and yet Paul shares his understanding that God’s allness includes even the Greeks. To this end he quotes a Greek poet, “ ‘For we are also His offspring’ ” (Acts 17:28). The Lesson this week shows how this idea—that we are all God’s family—can lead to peace within ourselves, our communities, our families, and even between nations.
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June 18, 2012 issue
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Letters
Demarest Bowers Morrow, Penny Witney, Vicki Hoff
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Get out of the mud
Gillian Litchfield, Copy Editor
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You can come home
Lois Herr
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Prayer–not guilt–heals
Deborah Packer
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Thank you, Dad
Karen N. Bain
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My own 'burning bush'
Melanie Ball
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Straight talk about animal magnetism
Hal Shrewsbury
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God has a purpose for you
Pamela Cook
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Build each day on 'Truth and Love'
Bruce Jamerson
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A good guy, not a thief
Name withheld
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Bullying? You don't have to be afraid!
Emily, Jasmine, Becca
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A fresh look at happiness
Kim Shippey, Senior Editor
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Negative political campaigns and what we can do about them
Elizabeth Kellogg
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Understanding the law of God
Ann Edwards
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The way to permanent peace
Steve Warren
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More churches turning to high-tech outreach
Cathy Lynn Grossman
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Ringworm healed
Puneet Sharma
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A fresh sense of purpose replaces depression
Heather Zurlo
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Child saved from rapids
Linda Gorman
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A man who loved
The Editors