by Steve Thomason | Aug 23, 2018 | podcast, Sermons
The world is a violent place. The horrifying story of Mollie Tibbetts shoves that in our faces this week. Violence happens at the personal level, as with Mollie, at the geo-political level as we stand in frozen horror with Nuclear missiles at the ready, and everything...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 20, 2018 | Art
Today marks the end of a wild and wonderful summer. It contained two weeks of Vacation Bible School, three weeks of vacation, a week of Youth Missions, a weekend of Family Camp, and a week of Confirmation Camp. Whew! Now I have a couple weeks to get ready to crank it...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 8, 2018 | Spiritual Formation
I spent last week with a group of high school students at a Youthworks site in Wanblee, SD, an Indian village on the Pine Ridge Reservation (the chief told me he prefers to be called Indian rather than Native American). This was a deep learning experience for all of...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 7, 2018 | Devos
The nation watches in horror as wildfires rage across California. “Why would God let this happen?” many ask. Here is something we must keep in mind. Forest fires are a natural process that cleans out the dead wood and unlocks the next generation of trees....
by Steve Thomason | Jul 28, 2018 | Personal Updates
Please pray for the two groups that leave today for South Dakota. One group of middle school students will travel to Rapid City, Sout Dakota. The trip on which I will participate is a high school group that is traveling to Wanblee, S.D. which is in the Pine Ridge...
