How To Remove Anxiety From Your Life
Tom Shrader addresses anxiety from Luke 12, contrasting the anxious heir and the complacent rich man to show how both misunderstand God's provision.
How To Benefit From Adversity
Tom Shrader teaches that adversity is inevitable in life and that believers can benefit from it by being coachable and willing to learn.
Getting On The Same Page
Tom Shrader begins a conference series by establishing the theological foundation of salvation by grace through faith alone.
Marching Orders
Tom Shrader provides a comprehensive summary of the week's teaching, emphasizing that believers need transformed hearts, informed minds, and radical lives.
The Secret Contentment
Tom Shrader teaches on the biblical concept of contentment from 1 Timothy 6, examining Paul's equation that godliness plus contentment equals great gain. He challenges listeners to examine their hearts regarding material possessions, relationships, and achievements, arguing that true satisfaction comes from Christ alone rather than accumulating more stuff or status.
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.
Driven By Love And Humility
Tom Shrader explores why Christians struggle to change, arguing that true transformation comes through understanding our complete dependence on God's grace rather than our own efforts.
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.
Getting On The Same Page
Tom Shrader explores the final movement of Isaiah 53, focusing on verses 10-12 which prophesy not only Christ's suffering and death but also His resurrection.
Laodicea
Tom Shrader on Revelation 3:14-22 - the lukewarm church of Laodicea and spiritual complacency.
Sardis And Philadelphia
Tom Shrader briefly touches on the dead church at Sardis before focusing on Philadelphia, the church with no recorded weakness.
Thyatira
Tom Shrader teaches on Revelation 2:18-29, warning against tolerating false teaching in the church.
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.
Pergamum
Tom Shrader addresses the third letter to the seven churches, examining Jesus' message to Pergamum - a church that held fast to Christ's name but allowed compromise to creep in through false teaching.
Ephesus
Tom Shrader introduces a study of the seven churches in Revelation by examining Ephesus, a church that Jesus commends for their hard work, perseverance, and doctrinal discernment but rebukes for losing their first love.
James Session 12
Tom Shrader concludes James study on tested faith producing endurance through trials and patience.
James Session 11
Tom Shrader teaches from James 4:11-17 about two dangerous attitudes: judging fellow believers maliciously and planning life as if we control our own destiny.
James Session 10
Tom Shrader addresses the source of quarrels and conflicts within the church, identifying selfish ambition and worldly pleasures as the root cause.
James Session 9
Tom Shrader teaches through James 3:13-18, contrasting two types of wisdom: earthly wisdom marked by bitter jealousy and selfish ambition versus heavenly wisdom that is first pure, then peaceable and gentle.
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.