Finding Hope Through Discovery in Bible Study

Sabbath School Class January 22, 2011 Presented by Larry R Evans Introduction It has been said that “Most adults never grow up.” Do you agree? This week we will be delving into the idea of relationships and what is really behind positive relationships. I have found the following statement by John Powell in Why Am I Afraid to Love? to be insightful for our study about enduring and expanding relationships: “A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows, and the person who decides to love in order to be fulfilled and happy will be disappointed and will not grow because the horizon is still himself. Consequently, we cannot conceive of love in any way as a means of self-fulfillment, because if we do we will still be within the treacherous vicious circle, traveling always from our own needs through others and back into ourselves. We can never use others as a means. They must always be the end-object of love.” (p.107) When it comes to relationships, ...

Sabbath School Class January 22, 2011 Presented by Larry R Evans Introduction It has been said that “Most adults never grow up.” Do you agree? This week we will be delving into the idea of relationships and what is really behind positive relationships. I have found the following statement by John Powell in Why Am I Afraid to Love? to be insightful for our study about enduring and expanding relationships: “A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows, and the person who decides to love in order to be fulfilled and happy will be disappointed and will not grow because the horizon is still himself. Consequently, we cannot conceive of love in any way as a means of self-fulfillment, because if we do we will still be within the treacherous vicious circle, traveling always from our own needs through others and back into ourselves. We can never use others as a means. They must always be the end-object of love.” (p.107) When it comes to relationships, ...

Stress Class Notes January 15, 2011 Larry R Evans Introduction Life is filled with stress and each of us is confronted with it in some form every day. Some dread getting up in the morning so stress begins their day. I happen to dread going to bed but look forward to getting up—I never did like taking naps growing up. For some there is stress in the family, on the job and even with their health. The question before us this week isn’t so much how can we avoid it, although we sometimes create unnecessary stress for ourselves by the choices we make. Rather we will focus more on how can we cope with it constructively. Each of us come packaged with a whole set of unique circumstances so this week we will be looking for principles to live by rather than casting blame and judgments. As an introduction to this week’s study and reflection I share two quotes which I have captured from some books I recently read. They were not written to address the subject of stress but they...