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Turning our eyes to Jesus

By Nicole Magee on 05 Apr 2013

Like most holidays, Easter has become extremely commercialized. Shelf after shelf is lined with eggs, bunnies and chocolates. We fight to remember the reason for the season; Jesus Christ died on the cross, was resurrected three days later, and forever bridged the gap of sin that keeps us from God. Through the hustle and bustle of the holiday, we want to remember that. But how much do we fight to cherish it? To wrap ourselves up in it and really truly love it?

This semester at St. Thomas, students have been reading through Mark as well as King’s Cross by Tim Keller, which dissects that book of the Bible. As we were approaching Easter, the groups were finishing both books, which end at the resurrection.

Justified and Sanctified

By Nicole Magee on 22 Feb 2013

There’s nothing sweeter than seeing people come to know Jesus.

The cherry on top is being able to watch their lives radically change as a result.

Annual Report: Walk By Faith

By Paul Poteat on 23 Jan 2013

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All things to all people...

By Ann Nelson on 28 Sep 2012

I don't really like painting my nails. At all. But sitting next to me on my desk are five bottles of brand new nail polish. It seems like a good majority of the freshmen girls here at St. Thomas are wild about painting their nails. So I decided I would start liking it too.

Last night about 20 girls gathered in a freshman dorm room for our weekly nail-painting party. You can smell the fumes on the other side of the building and you practically need a gas mask to walk through the door. But these girls are having the time of their lives painting and chatting away.

Holy Week

By Ann Nelson on 09 Apr 2012

This week, an old family friend wrote me this note: "After the resurrection people began to meet the risen Christ. Millions have done so over the last 2000 years. Today is a good day to introduce someone to him."

This week we celebrated Holy Week; the week that contains the most important events of human history. And my friend is right, for 2,000 years, hundreds, then thousands, then millions of Christians all over the world have gathered to remember and worship the one who died and rose again on their behalf. This celebration of the events of Holy Week will continue until Christ returns and then on into eternity where we will forever worship the Lamb who was slain.

James way of getting us convicted

By Elliot Stokes on 16 Mar 2012

Our discipleship group at St. Thomas is studying the book of James. This week we were reading James 3 and came across verses 14-15 which say this, "But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic."

In verse 15 James wants to drive home how ugly these two sins (bitter jealousy and selfish ambition) are and so he describes them with these three words: earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. To which my initial response was: Earthly, yes. Unspiritual, of course. But demonic?

A powerful tool in evangelism

By Elliot Stokes on 15 Feb 2012

One of the themes we have focused on in our weekly evangelistic meeting is God as the source of pleasure (Ps 16:11). College students, like the rest of us, are born hedonists and given over to the lie that happiness, pleasure, goodness and the like are found outside of Christ.

My discipleship group is studying the book of James and in the course of our study we stumbled across James 1:17, which has been an unexpected help in clarifying this theme. It reads, "Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change."

THIRST

By Elliot Stokes on 28 Nov 2011

THIRST is the name of our weekly evangelistic Bible study at the University of St. Thomas and our teaching series this semester is titled “Jesus is not…” Each week we address common misconceptions about who Jesus Christ is and what He came to do by studying the Bible together. For example, some of the talks this semester have been “Jesus is not a good teacher” (think C.S. Lewis’ Lord, Liar, Lunatic), Jesus is not a waste of time, and Jesus is not an only child (doctrine of adoption and the Fatherhood of God).

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