Ah-ha Moments - So How Are You Doing
Tom Shrader uses 1 Thessalonians 1 to offer three key indicators for spiritual health: the work of faith (turning from idols to God in repentance), the labor of love (serving others rather than self), and steadfastness of hope (living with eternal perspective while awaiting Christ's return).
Ah-ha Moments - The Bible Is True
Tom Shrader establishes the Bible as the final authority for Christian living, using prophecy fulfillment as evidence of Scripture's reliability. Drawing from 2 Timothy 3:16-17, he teaches that the Bible is profitable for teaching what's right, reproof of what's wrong, correction for how to get right, and training for how to stay right.
Ah-ha Moments - The Ultimate Ah-ha
Tom Shrader shares his personal testimony of coming to faith and teaches on the ultimate 'aha moment' - understanding salvation by grace through faith alone. Drawing from Ephesians 2:8-9 and Romans, he emphasizes that salvation is not based on human effort or religion, but on God's grace alone.
Peter - Failure Is Not Fatal
Tom Shrader examines Peter's journey from denial to powerful preaching, demonstrating that failure is not fatal for believers. Using Peter's three denials of Christ and his subsequent restoration, Shrader shows how God's grace transforms our worst moments into opportunities for ministry.
Getting On The Same Page
Tom Shrader opens the Cannon Beach conference by establishing two foundational truths for the week. Drawing from 2 Timothy 3:16-17, he teaches that Scripture is the inspired Word of God, profitable for teaching what's right, what's wrong, how to get right, and how to stay right.
New Relational Strategies For A Changing World
Tom Shrader addresses the tension between American individualism and God's call to live in community.
Let’s Be On The Same Page
Tom Shrader presents the foundational gospel message, tracing humanity's sin problem from Adam's fall in Genesis 3 to God's solution through Christ's death.
Marching Orders
Tom Shrader provides a comprehensive summary of the week's teaching, emphasizing that believers need transformed hearts, informed minds, and radical lives.
Evidence Of Change Fruit
Tom Shrader teaches that believers have a dual calling: to make the invisible God visible through the fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control) and to speak the truth boldly about what Christ has done.
Real Life Change Inspide Out
Tom Shrader explores 2 Corinthians 5:17 and Romans 12:1-2, emphasizing that true Christian transformation comes from God working inside out, not through external religious effort.
Smyrna
Tom Shrader teaches on Jesus' letter to the church at Smyrna, emphasizing that suffering is an inevitable part of the Christian life but is temporary and purposeful.
James Session 8
Tom Shrader teaches through James 3:1-12, focusing on the power and danger of the tongue. He emphasizes that the tongue reveals what is truly in our hearts, using James's illustrations of horses, ships, and fire to show both the controlling power and destructive potential of our words.
James Session 5
Tom Shrader examines James 1:17-25, emphasizing that believers must humbly receive God's implanted Word and act on it rather than merely listen.
James Session 4
Tom Shrader distinguishes between God's testing (which produces good) and Satan's temptation (which aims for destruction) from James 1:13-18.
James Session 3
Tom Shrader examines James 1:5-12, emphasizing how believers should seek God's wisdom during trials while trusting His sovereignty without demanding specific outcomes.
James Session 1
Tom Shrader begins a series on James by sharing his personal testimony of coming to faith in Christ and explaining the book's central theme found in James 1:22 - being doers of the Word, not merely hearers.
Principles Of Stewardship
Tom Shrader teaches from Jesus' parable in Luke 12 about faithful and unfaithful managers to demonstrate that believers are stewards, not owners, of all their resources.
Principles Of Consequence
Tom Shrader explores the biblical principle that our choices today have inevitable consequences tomorrow, using Galatians 6:7-10 to show that God has established a spiritual law of sowing and reaping.
Principles Of Significance
Tom Shrader examines the creation and fall accounts in Genesis to address the fundamental human need for significance and self-worth.
These Are The Last Days
Tom Shrader examines Paul's warning to Timothy about the difficult times of the last days, focusing on how people will be lovers of self and money rather than lovers of God.