by Steve Thomason | Aug 22, 2011 | Personal Journal
Today I stand at the beginning of a new adventure and a new chapter in my life. At noon I will gather with other PhD students at Luther Seminary for our orientation luncheon. Then, for the next nine days, I will be writing entrance exams. Tomorrow it all begins with a...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 15, 2011 | Fiction, Writing
I am continually surprised by people who tell me they’ve read Pleroma: Book One of the Nectar Trilogy. Just last week I went with our youth group to a Praise in the Park event and one of the students from the other church said, “Hey, you’re the guy...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 14, 2011 | sermons2011
listen to the audio [level-free]CLICK FOR THE SERMON RECORDING[/level-free] The title of this sermon is Faith in Unexpected Places. That’s a good title, but I have an unpublished title. I’d like to call it 19 baskets and a dog dish. First I need you to help me...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 12, 2011 | The Missional Church
An important quote from The Missional Church in Perspective… The church is. The church does what it is. The church organizes what it does.
by Steve Thomason | Aug 10, 2011 | Theology
A passage from the chapter titled Luther’s Theology of the Cross in Christian Dogmatics by Braaten/Jensen Particularly important is the manner in which Luther moves to strip the roses from the cross. Christ comes among us and dies a real death “wrapped in...