Captain’s Blog

Sept, 20, 2025, By Derek West Today’s lesson had points of special highlight and emphasis.  One such point elaborated on the glorious day when Satan is led away into the wilderness that he may no longer interfere with Church business.  It is a day of glory because...

Sept, 13, 2025, By Derek West The lesson this week was full of details vast and extenuating.  The best synopsis comes by an example of the Sin Offering applied to today’s context.  We have learned Jesus, the Sin Offering, covers unknown sins, and I point to a metaphor...

Sept, 06, 2025, By Derek West The lesson this week was full of details vast and extenuating.  The best synopsis comes by an example of the Sin Offering applied to today’s context.  We have learned Jesus, the Sin Offering, covers unknown sins, and I point to a metaphor...

Aug, 30, 2025 By Derek West What are the legal technicalities of salvation?  How is one man graced with everlasting life and another condemned to burn with the devil and his angels?  These questions were answered this week. The legal, court-room arguments to...

Aug, 23, 2025 By Derek West What are the legal technicalities of salvation?  How is one man graced with everlasting life and another condemned to burn with the devil and his angels?  These questions were answered this week. The legal, court-room arguments to...

Aug, 16, 2025 By Derek West This week’s lesson has a buildup that elapsed the past several lessons on Atonement.  One central theme is grace that affords the forgiveness of sins.  But there are two categories of sins which must be remitted: first there are sins of...

July26th, 2025: Sabbath-School Review By Derek West We learned from the publication, Atonement & Amazingly Sufficient Grace, that the ritual is eternal, all purifying, and available to cleanse ---not just Israel but--- all of humanity.  The sacrificial animals...

July 19th, 2025: Sabbath-School Review By Derek West We began a new quarter today.  Its beginning has come after finishing the reading of the book, Jacob Typology.  In reading the document, Atonement & Amazingly Sufficient Grace, We showed the four sacrificial...

May 24th, 2025: Sabbath-School Review By Derek West This lesson covered pages 99 to 108.  Therein we defined Jacob’s theological development.  He learned in a dream that his spiritual epiphany 20 years prior to his work on Laban’s ranch was the same personality that...

May 18th, 2025 :: Sabbath-School Review By Derek West This lesson made a special twist.  It showed why we no longer mandate vegetarianism as a tenant of doctrine.   We learned that Jacob’s reward for his work was cattle with abnormal skin patterns: ring straked,...