Tag Archives: Law

Teacher’s Overview of Deuteronomy 28:1-6, 15-19, Lifeway Explore the Bible lesson, “Covenant Relationship,” for 11/16/25.

Posted on 2025/11/08 by Shawn Thomas

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

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Teacher’s Overview of Deuteronomy 4:1-9, 15-20, Lifeway Explore the Bible lesson “Remember” for 10/26/25

Posted on 2025/10/18 by Shawn Thomas

For Sunday School teachers and Bible study leaders of Lifeway’s Explore the Bible lesson. Includes a sample introduction to the lesson, text outline and overview, illustrations you can use, discussion questions for your group, and spiritual life applications. A video … Continue reading →

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Teacher’s Overview of Leviticus 16:1-10, 29-30, “Atonement” Lifeway’s “Explore the Bible” lesson for 2/16/25

Posted on 2025/02/08 by Shawn Thomas

An overview for Sunday School teachers and Bible study leaders, of Lifeway’s “Explore the Bible” lesson of Leviticus 16, for Sunday, February 16, 2025, with the title, “Atonement.” A video version of this overview is available on YouTube at: INTRODUCTION: … Continue reading →

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Teacher’s Overview of Lifeway “Explore the Bible” lesson: Acts 15:39-16:10, “Kingdom Work” for 9/29/24

Posted on 2024/09/21 by Shawn Thomas

An overview for Sunday school teachers and Bible study leaders, of Lifeway’s “Explore the Bible” lesson of Acts 15:39-16:10, with the title of “Kingdom Work,” for Sunday, September 29, 2024. A video version of this overview is available on YouTube … Continue reading →

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“What Real Faith Looks Like: The King’s Laws” (James 2:5-13)

Posted on 2024/07/29 by Shawn Thomas

In Leo Tolstoy’s War & Peace, he writes about how during Napoleon’s War with Russia he commanded a group of his soldiers to go downstream and find a good place to ford the river, and go to the other side. … Continue reading →

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“Your Witness Under Authority” (I Peter 2:13-20 sermon)

Posted on 2019/08/19 by Shawn Thomas

When General Douglas MacArthur was stationed in the Philippines, he was given an order to survey the whole area of Bataan, the jungly, mountainous peninsula at the mouth of Manila Bay. Another officer on his staff saw the order and … Continue reading →

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“Super Grace For Super Sinners” (Romans 5:20 sermon)

Posted on 2018/08/20 by Shawn Thomas

This week I read about a worship team that was meeting together, planning for upcoming services. They discussed using a certain song at the end of the service to encourage people to come forward and pray. But one woman on … Continue reading →

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“When The Lord Is Your God” (Genesis 28:10-22 sermon)

Posted on 2018/01/29 by Shawn Thomas

In our daily Bible reading this week we read one of my favorite passages from the Old Testament. I love it because it shows what happens in the life of a person when the Lord really becomes your God. We … Continue reading →

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“The Disciple’s Indispensable Book” (Matthew 5:17-19 sermon)

Posted on 2017/07/10 by Shawn Thomas

John Bunyan’s classic story, Pilgrim’s Progress, is generally regarded as the 2nd-most widely read book of all time outside the Bible. In it he tells the allegorical story of “Pilgrim”, who leaves “The City of Destruction” where he lives, on … Continue reading →

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“The Christ of Christmas: His Gifts” (John 1:1-14)

Posted on 2015/12/21 by Shawn Thomas

Whenever we think of Jesus, and gifts, and Christmas time, most of us probably think of the gifts that the Magi brought Jesus in Matthew 2: “gold, frankincense and myrrh.” In imitation of that, as many of you know, we … Continue reading →

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