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...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 26, 2016 | Spiritual Formation
What is conversion? Is it a one-time experience, or is it a continual process that lasts, hopefully, a lifetime? Richard Rohr is a writer that has challenged my thinking and relationship with God for over a decade. His recent newsletter raised the issue of conversion....
by Steve Thomason | Jun 23, 2016 | Spiritual Formation
The following post is from my dissertation, Deep in the Burbs… The DITB project is an exercise both about and of spiritual formation. It is necessary, therefore, to clearly define this term. What is spiritual formation, and more precisely, how do I use this term...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 22, 2016 | Animation
My son, Ethan, and I completed our second project for Jeannine Brown, a professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary. She received a small grant from Bethel to fund this project. I did all the art and animation. Ethan did all the sound. See a little behind the scenes...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 21, 2016 | sermons2016
How can we talk about reconciliation in a culture of mass shootings and hatred? This sermon tries to deal with this question as it brings 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 into conversation with the violence and divisions our country experiences every day. Read the Sermon It’s...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 20, 2016 | Art
Animation is expensive because it takes a ton of time. I recently was hired to create an educational animation that did not have a) a lot of money, and b) a lot of time. Hmmm… The big challenge was to make an educational film not be incredibly flat without...
