by Steve Thomason | Mar 31, 2018 | Spiritual Formation
It is Holy Saturday. Jesus is dead. Two rich and powerful men took his dead body, wrapped it in burial clothes soaked in spices, and laid it in a garden tomb. The disciples hid in fear that the soldiers would come for them next. The air is strangely silent. The crowds...
by Steve Thomason | Feb 23, 2018 | Family Faith
How does your family deal with loss? 2006 was a difficult year for my family. We call it the year of death. I had a good friend who took his own life. Both of my wife’s grandmothers died, the church we had started fours years earlier died. To top it all off,...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 10, 2016 | Devos
I listened to the Home-brewed christianity podcast episode Liberal Christian Piety with Douglas Ottati this morning on my walk. It covered a lot of wonderful topics, but one phrase jumped out at me. Ottati quoted Romans 6:23, “for the wages of sin is death.” “Whose...
by Steve Thomason | May 20, 2015 | Devos
Wednesday, May 20. Romans 10:1-21. There is one particular night in our Catechism journey that is a highlight for me. It happens during the year in which I teach a survey of the whole Bible to our students. On this night we reenact the scene that happens in...
by Steve Thomason | May 15, 2015 | Bible Doodle, Sermons, Visual Preaching
I’m going to preach Romans 6:1-14 for the Confirmation Service on Sunday (it is the text from the Narrative Lectionary and it is perfect for this event). The theme is Alive in Christ. Here is a sequence of images that help me think through Paul’s argument....
