by Steve Thomason | Oct 7, 2014 | Personal Journal
It’s crunch week for Bible Mania. This Saturday I will present a six-hour workshop/experience called Bible Mania where I will lead a group of people through the big story of the Bible from beginning to end. It is like a post-Evangelical, missional, neo-Lutheran...
by Steve Thomason | Oct 7, 2014 | Devos
This image goes out to all my Catechism students who remember shouting back and forth across the Fellowship Hall, “Life!” “Death!” “Life!” “Death!”
by Steve Thomason | Oct 1, 2014 | Devos
The reading for today is from Exodus 16:1-21. The people of Israel have been rescued from slavery in Egypt and Moses has led them into the wilderness. There is one problem. There’s no food. They are hungry, so they start to grumble. “Why did you lead us...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 30, 2014 | sermons2014
This weekend I will be preaching Exodus 19:3-7; 20:1-17 from the Narrative Lectionary. This is the first giving of the Ten Commandments, but I don’t really want to focus as much on the Ten Commandments (20:1-17) as I do on the framing of the commandments in...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 27, 2014 | Devos
I can’t resist commenting on today’s reading from the Narrative Lectionary found in Exodus 13:17–22. Pharoah had finally let the people go and they headed out to the Promised land. The logical path was to the north. It was a straight shot from Egypt to...