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Teacher’s Overview of Numbers 11:4-17, Lifeway “Explore the Bible” lesson “Provision” for 9/14/25

Posted on 2025/09/06 by Shawn Thomas

An overview for Sunday School teachers and Bible study leaders, of Lifeway’s “Explore the Bible” lesson of Numbers 11:4-17, “God’s Provision,” for Sunday, September 14, 2025. Includes a sample introduction to the lesson, text highlights and outline, discussion questions for … Continue reading →

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Teacher’s Overview of Mark 15:33-39, 16:1-8, “Our Savior,” Lifeway Explore the Bible lesson for Easter Sunday, 4/20/25

Posted on 2025/04/12 by Shawn Thomas

An overview for Sunday school teachers and Bible study leaders of Lifeway’s “Explore the Bible” lesson of Mark 15-16 for Sunday, April 20, 2025, with the title, “Our Savior.” A video version of this overview is available on YouTube at: … Continue reading →

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“What Real Faith Looks Like: Real Faith Affects the Way You Talk” (James 3:1-12 message)

Posted on 2024/08/26 by Shawn Thomas

James 3:1-12 “What Real Faith Looks Like: Real Faith Affects the Way You Talk” Francis Carpenter was an eminent American portrait painter back in the 1800s. Among the people he painted was President Abraham Lincoln. For six months he would … Continue reading →

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“Suffering Servant/Glorious King: Man of Sorrows” (Isaiah 53:2-3 sermon)

Posted on 2024/01/29 by Shawn Thomas

Abraham Lincoln was not an attractive man; in fact, people described him as “homely;” he had a number of facial defects. His own cabinet secretary called him a “long-armed ape.” And yet this “unsightly man,” as some called him, is … Continue reading →

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“He Will Hold Me Fast: 5 Reasons Why A Genuine Christian’s Salvation Is Eternally Secure” (John 10:27-29 sermon)

Posted on 2022/11/14 by Shawn Thomas

We have SO many blessings to count this Thanksgiving season, don’t we? But surely one of THE greatest blessings we have to give thanks for as God’s people, is the SECURITY of our salvation in Jesus Christ — that “HE … Continue reading →

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“Three Christian Attitudes” (Philippians 3:12-15 sermon)

Posted on 2021/08/23 by Shawn Thomas

A week after he returned to Washington from his famous speech at Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln was sick. It was actually a mild form of smallpox, so like a lot of people today with COVID, most people were being very careful … Continue reading →

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“The Ministry of the Intercessor” (Psalm 106:19-23 sermon)

Posted on 2020/06/08 by Shawn Thomas

Congressman Kellogg of Illinois read the reply from Secretary of War Stanton: the stay of execution for a young man from his home state had been denied. The young man was scheduled to be executed at sunrise the next day. … Continue reading →

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“Reaching, Teaching, Caring” (Matthew 4:23 sermon)

Posted on 2019/03/03 by Shawn Thomas

I came home from work last Monday night and Cheryl was sitting on the couch wrapped up in a blanket, and she said, “You remember that thing you said in the sermon yesterday about how ‘If you worshiped God first … Continue reading →

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God’s Children: NOT Exempt From Suffering

Posted on 2019/02/06 by Shawn Thomas

In early 1865, hundreds of thousands of men from the North were being drafted into the Union Army to help finally bring an end to the war. President Abraham Lincoln’s own son Robert was now also being sent. Lincoln’s wife … Continue reading →

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“He Will Hold Me Fast” (John 10:27-29 sermon)

Posted on 2018/11/19 by Shawn Thomas

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