by Steve Thomason | Nov 15, 2010 | Devos
Romans 11:11-24 Paul spent the first eight chapters of this letter explaining to the Jewish Christians that God has created a plan of salvation for the entire world, meaning that being a Jew has no bearing on whether or not a person can be saved. Simply put, everyone...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 15, 2010 | Devos
Romans 3:9-26 How does God view Jews and Gentiles in regards to being holy or worthy of Him? In vv. 10-18, Paul constructs an Old Testament view of the condition of a man’s heart. Summarize these verses in your own words. Left to himself, what is a man like? In what...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 12, 2010 | Devos
Acts 25:23-26:32 Where is Paul in this passage and why is he there? In this passage Paul shares his testimony of how Jesus transformed his life. What was Paul like before he met Christ? How did Paul meet Christ? What were Jesus’ instructions for Paul? How did Paul...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 12, 2010 | Devos
Acts 20:13-37 This passage could be studied from a few different angles. It is often studied in reference to leadership training, since Paul was giving instruction to the elders of Ephesus (the hub church of the whole region of Asia) on how to be good spiritual...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 12, 2010 | Devos
Acts 17:16-34 Paul was a master evangelist because he knew one simple truth: Know Your Audience. When Paul spoke to Jewish people, he reasoned with them from the scriptures and proved that Jesus was the Messiah that had been prophesied. This makes sense because the...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 10, 2010 | Non-Fiction, Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
Sex, drugs, and social status. As a youth pastor, it’s important to talk about these three topics. When I think about them, two words come to mind: Good and Fire. Good. Great even. Sex, drugs, and social status are really good things. Just like fire. Fire is a...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 9, 2010 | ministry, Youth Ministry
The weekend’s are full for me each week. Four worship services, High School Youth Group, and Bible A-Z. Worship Service. It was All Saints Day. Growing up in a Baptist, anti-liturgical culture, I had always thought that All Saints was a day that people...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 9, 2010 | Devos
Acts 17:10-12 We live in a society where we, the common masses, are spoon fed sound bytes of information. We drive down the road and see a beautiful image on a billboard with a catchy phrase. We turn on the radio while we are driving and catch a thirty second news...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 8, 2010 | Devos
View postActs 16:6-10 In this passage Paul ran smack into a divine roadblock. It is most likely that Paul intended to go to Ephesus and establish a base camp from there. That was a logical plan since Ephesus was a hub of commerce and communication for the region of...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 8, 2010 | Devos
Acts 9:1-31 It is important to take a moment to contemplate this story in the flow of the entire Bible. The rest of the New Testament is dominated by this one man, Saul of Tarsus (who later went by his Greek name, Paul). Why did God choose this man when he had already...
