by Steve Thomason | Aug 14, 2011 | sermons2011
listen to the audio [level-free]CLICK FOR THE SERMON RECORDING[/level-free] The title of this sermon is Faith in Unexpected Places. That’s a good title, but I have an unpublished title. I’d like to call it 19 baskets and a dog dish. First I need you to help me...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 12, 2011 | The Missional Church
An important quote from The Missional Church in Perspective… The church is. The church does what it is. The church organizes what it does.
by Steve Thomason | Aug 10, 2011 | Theology
A passage from the chapter titled Luther’s Theology of the Cross in Christian Dogmatics by Braaten/Jensen Particularly important is the manner in which Luther moves to strip the roses from the cross. Christ comes among us and dies a real death “wrapped in...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 8, 2011 | sermons2011
Have you ever been afraid of water? When I was a kid I had a terrified awe of the swimming pool. We lived in this big old house near Detroit, Michigan, and it had an in ground pool in the back yard. I was fascinated with the water, but I was terrified of it. My mom...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 14, 2011 | Fiction, Youth Ministry
One of the few negative side effects of my new journey into the PhD program is that I will have to place my fiction writing on hold. I generally don’t think about it, but every once in a while I get a little stabbing pain of longing when I receive a message like...