by Steve Thomason | Sep 2, 2014 | Devos
Many of you start back to school today. Some of you started back last week. This is a day that brings many mixed emotions. It is exciting to start a new year, to see old friends, and to be a year older. It is also full of great anxiety over the unknown. What if my...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 31, 2014 | Spiritual Formation, The Missional Church
I was very happy to discover a kindred spirit through the help of Twitter. Christopher B. James is a PhD Candidate at Boston University School of Theology in Practical Theology with a dual-concentration in Church & Society and Evangelism. He blogs about it at...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 30, 2014 | The Missional Church
Deep in the Burbs is a story about the church and the belief that the missional church–missional ecclesiology–offers hope for the church in the twenty-first century. A missional ecclesiology is an understanding that the mission of the Triune God ((I will...
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 29, 2014 | Art, Book Reviews, Spiritual Formation
I needed to take a little break from sermon writing this afternoon, so I found myself standing in front of my bookshelf and letting my eyes wander. I do that sometimes. It seems like the Spirit often draws me there because there is something I need to read. One...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 28, 2014 | Personal Journal, Spiritual Formation
This is how the internet works…for some of us, anyway. I was on Facebook and saw two of my academic colleagues–Ken Reynhout and Josh de Keijzer–shared a post by Peter Enns that was written by Jeannine Brown. (check out the animation I did for...
