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Teacher’s Overview of Deuteronomy 6:1-9, 20-25, “Love” for Sunday 11/02/25

Posted on 2025/10/25 by Shawn Thomas

Includes a sample introduction to the lesson, text highlights and outline, illustrations you can share, discussions for your group, and spiritual life applications. A video version of this overview is available on YouTube at: INTRODUCTION: You could begin the lesson … Continue reading →

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“What Real Faith Looks Like: Perseverance” (James 1:12 sermon)

Posted on 2024/05/20 by Shawn Thomas

We’ve got one of my very favorite family pictures to put up on the screen: In 1998, I ran the Tulsa Run road race with Paul, David & Libby, our three oldest kids. Cheryl took this picture of the four of us at my … Continue reading →

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Teacher’s Overview: Lifeway’s “Explore the Bible” lesson of Genesis 50:15-26, “Revenge” for May 26, 2024

Posted on 2024/05/18 by Shawn Thomas

An overview of Lifeway’s “Explore the Bible” Sunday school lesson for teachers and Bible study leaders. This week’s lesson is for Sunday, May 26, 2024, and is based on Genesis 50:15-26, with the title, “Revenge?” A video version of this … Continue reading →

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Teacher’s Overview of Lifeway’s “Explore the Bible” lesson of Genesis 37, “Dreamer” for April 28, 2024.

Posted on 2024/04/20 by Shawn Thomas

An overview for Sunday School teachers and Bible study leaders, of Lifeway’s “Explore the Bible” lesson of Genesis 37:5-8, 18-28, for Sunday, April. 28, 2024 with the title, “Dreamer.” A video version of this overview is available on YouTube at: … Continue reading →

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Teacher’s Overview: Lifeway’s “Explore the Bible” lesson of Genesis 2:7-9, 15-25, “The First Couple”

Posted on 2023/12/02 by Shawn Thomas

A brief overview for Sunday School teachers and Bible study leaders, of Lifeway’s “Explore the Bible” lesson of Genesis 2:7-9, 15-25 for Sunday, December 10, 2023, “The First Couple.” A video overview of this overview is available on YouTube at: … Continue reading →

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“Coming To Worship Jesus” (Luke 21:38 sermon)

Posted on 2023/08/21 by Shawn Thomas

Charles Spurgeon once told a story about how Caesar Augustus was invited to a feast in his honor; but the attendance was so poor, and the feast was so mediocre, that he arose in the midst of it and lamented: … Continue reading →

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“Gratitude: Your First Step Towards God” (Romans 1:21 sermon)

Posted on 2022/08/15 by Shawn Thomas

When John F. Kennedy was president, he was at a dinner one evening when an assistant defense secretary’s wife told him that every night when her husband comes home, she says to him: “How can they say those things about … Continue reading →

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Explore the Bible lesson overview: I Kings 15:9-22, “Return” for Sun., July 3, 2022

Posted on 2022/06/26 by Shawn Thomas

(This is a brief overview for Sunday school teachers and Bible study leader of the Lifeway Explore the Bible lesson for this text. A video version of this overview is available at: ONE way you could open this lesson would … Continue reading →

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“The Backslider In Heart” (Proverbs 14:14 sermon)

Posted on 2022/05/09 by Shawn Thomas

It’s about 380 A.D., and Monica was at church, praying for her son. This was nothing new for her. She had been praying for her son for over ten years. She’d brought him up to know the Lord. He was … Continue reading →

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“Walking in the Fear of the Lord” (Proverbs sermon)

Posted on 2022/05/02 by Shawn Thomas

As we started reading the Book of Proverbs in our daily Bible readings this week, one of the first verses we came across was 1:7, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,” a famous verse in this … Continue reading →

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