by Steve Thomason | Jul 27, 2016 | Youth Ministry
Our youth director, Kristi Larson, is gone on the youth mission trip this week, so she asked me to fill in for her at Summer Stretch tomorrow. The topic is Caring for God’s Creation. We will meditate on Psalm 8 and reflect on how we can care for God’s...
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by Steve Thomason | Jul 25, 2016 | Caricatures
Guess what we saw today! Yep, Star Trek Beyond delivers all the goods for the Star Trek Fan. Here’s a quick caricature of Spock painted in Corel Painter 2016, mostly with the Real 2B Pencil and a little...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 23, 2016 | Bible, Books - Spirituality
Chapter Six of Dallas Willard’s book Hearing God is titled “The Word of God & the Rule of God.” It is a fabulous exploration of how the word of God is the source of and intertwined with reality itself. He says, “The very phrase ‘still small voice’ [from the...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 21, 2016 | Spiritual Formation
The Spiritual Formation Team met last night. This is a group of people that I have invited to help me discern what God is doing in and through Grace in the area of Spiritual Formation. The conversation centered primarily around the definition of Spiritual Formation...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 19, 2016 | Art
Today is my last day of vacation. I haven’t posted since I faded to black on July 4. Much has happened in the world and in my life since that day, but I will reflect on those things when I officially return from vacation. Today I want to break my blogging fast...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 4, 2016 | Personal Updates
Signing off for the 2015-2016 blogging season. It has been a year since I defended my dissertation and I have spent the year gradually weaning from being in school: was a TA in Law and Gospel in the fall, graduated in December, enjoyed commencement and got the magic...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 3, 2016 | sermons2016
Happy Independence Day. 240 years ago a group of British Colonists in the colonies of New England became frustrated by unfair taxes. They tried to reason with the Kingdom of England, but was shut down. Eventually, this led to a revolution. The Continental Congress...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 1, 2016 | Devos
Are you able to call God Father? Some people are not. Many people had horrible fathers that abused them. Many people didn’t know their fathers because they walked out. Many people associate the term father with a long, painful history of male domination and the...
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by Steve Thomason | Jun 28, 2016 | Spiritual Formation
Do you ever feel like you have so many things that you would like to do that you don’t know where to start? You have so many passions vying for your attention that you can feel overwhelmed and wonder which ones should take priority. How can you manage them all? If you...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 27, 2016 | Devos
We begin a four-week series on the Lord’s Prayer this weekend. Luke’s version of the prayer, in Luke 11:2-4, simply begins, “Father…” This is a relational term and opens up the outrageous possibility that the finite human is invited to...
