Dear friends,
Would you like to be on a conference call to study the Lesson with Kathy Merrill? The times are Tuesday mornings at 7:00 am; Tuesday nights at 7:00 pm; Wednesdays at 11:30; Thursdays at 11:30, and Thursdays at 1:30, all central standard time.
If you would like to be on a conference call, contact Sue Merrill (no relation to me) at sue@houstonpianocompany.com or 281-808-3731. She will send you an email with the procedures and the call-in numbers.
To sign up, we will need your email; your phone number, and your name. All four times are available, open, and FREE, and you don't need to let us know if and when you are getting on that week. You may call in as many times as you like.
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Research on the Lesson:
-- the word law is used many times throughout the lesson, including words like commandment and statute, which are synonyms for 'law.'
SECTION I: The Comforter
Make a tabernacle at home with your children (from Adrienne Gilman)
Old Testament and New Testament characters
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I hope these ideas are helpful!
Kathy
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PS Do you want to know why the lessons on "God" and "Sacrament" are out of order in the next couple of weeks? We wrote TMC and here is the explanation.
I'm happy to help with this as it's a question we get frequently whenever it happens. Every five to seven years, the lessons for Sacrament and God flip in order because of the Manual by-law that the Sacrament lesson always be on the second Sundays of January and July.
If the first Sunday of the year is January 7th (the last day of the first week of the year) and it's not a leap year, then there are only 25 Sundays from January–June. This means that the 26th and final lesson subject in the normal order, Christian Science, doesn't appear until the first Sunday in July. Because the by-law stipulates that the second Sunday of July has to be Sacrament, this throws off the normal order. In these instances, the July order is (1) Christian Science, (2) Sacrament, and (3) God; whereas it would usually be (1) God, (2) Sacrament, and (3) Life (and Christian Science would've been in June).
It's one of the little quirks we get to keep track of, along with how to manage 53 Sundays in a year — but that's a different story!
Eli Reynolds
Manager of the Bible Lesson Products Department of TMC