by Steve Thomason | Feb 13, 2018 | Devos
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. This is the day that begins the season of Lent. We traditionally smear black ashes on our foreheads, in the sign of the cross, and proclaim, “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return” over each other. It’s...
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 | Feb 7, 2018 | podcast, sermons2018
This sermon is from the Come and See series through the Gospel of John at Easter Lutheran Church in 2018. The text is John 4:1-42. Jesus had to go through Samaria because he had to show us where he abides. He sits in the light of day with a Samaritan Woman who has...
by Steve Thomason | Feb 6, 2018 | Devos
The following images will walk through John 9:1-10:21. This is the text from the Narrative Lectionary for this coming weekend. It tells the story of the sign Jesus gave by healing the man born blind. This sign points to the fact that Jesus is the Light of the World,...
by Steve Thomason | Feb 3, 2018 | Books - Epistemology/Hermeneutics, Spirituality in Adult Learning
Andy Root is a professor at Luther Seminary and a thought leader in youth ministry, young adults, family, church, and culture. I had the privilege to hear Andy present the big concepts in his book Faith Formation in a Secular Age at Luther this week. I was on campus...
