by Steve Thomason | Feb 25, 2022 | Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
What is Lent? This PowerPoint introduces the student to the idea that Lent is like a journey of spiritual spring cleaning. We walk for 40 days, practicing the disciplines of fasting, prayer, and service to prepare our hearts for Easter.
by Steve Thomason | Mar 6, 2019 | Spiritual Formation
Today is Ash Wednesday. This is the official beginning of Lent. Many of us will attend a worship service today where someone will smear black ashes mixed with oil on our forehead and say, “Remember that from dust you came and to dust you will return.” What...
by Steve Thomason | Feb 14, 2018 | Devos
How will you handle the confluence of traditions and romantic ideas today? On the one hand, it is Valentine’s Day. It is a celebration of romantic love and indulgence in chocolate, food, flowers, and all sorts of pleasure. On the other hand, it is Ash Wednesday....
by Steve Thomason | Feb 9, 2018 | Family Faith
Ash Wednesday is next week. This is the day that kicks off the forty-day journey toward Easter. It is a season when we, in the northern hemisphere, hunker down in the last weeks of winter and anticipate the coming of Spring and the celebration of new life in the...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 2, 2016 | sermons2016
Jesus uses a parable in Mark 12:1-12 (Narrative Lectionary) about a landowner and some wicked tenants to attack the religious leaders of his day. This story also provides two more answers to our question: Who is the Christ? Jesus is the Landowner’s Son and...
