by Steve Thomason | Sep 2, 2024 | Bible
Jesus Heals Out of Bounds
The Gospel reading for the Revised Common Lectionary is Mark 7:24-37. Jesus crosses the boundaries of Jewish territory and heals the daughter of a Syro-Phoenician woman and a deaf mute man in the Decapolis.
Back to the Beginning in the Narrative Lectionary
The Narrative Lectionary launches the annual trek through Genesis this week.
Download visual resources to help you preach, teach, and study the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary for September 8, 2024.
For the Revised Common Lectionary
Show No Partiality in James 2
Healing Out of Bounds in Mark 7:24-37
For the Narrative Lectionary
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2-3
So. Much. Good. Stuff.
by Steve Thomason | Sep 2, 2021 | Art, Bible
Read Genesis 1:1-2:4a like the opening pages of a graphic novel. Elohim hovers over the surface of the deep and brings order out of chaos.
by Steve Thomason | Sep 6, 2019 | Visual Preaching
This is the first week of the Narrative Lectionary for Fall 2019. Here we see original creation. Humanity is the interdependent relationship of plurality. We are not alone. We are created in and for community. We are one flesh. We were meant to be naked and unashamed with each other, fully present as helper and partner.
by Steve Thomason | Jan 16, 2018 | Devos
God is about abundance, not scarcity. That is one of the key theological ideas that runs through our study of John’s Gospel. It came through clearly in the text from last weekend, John 2:1-11, where Jesus takes ordinary water and transforms it into extraordinary wine....
by Steve Thomason | Jul 27, 2016 | Youth Ministry
Our youth director, Kristi Larson, is gone on the youth mission trip this week, so she asked me to fill in for her at Summer Stretch tomorrow. The topic is Caring for God’s Creation. We will meditate on Psalm 8 and reflect on how we can care for God’s...
