by Steve Thomason | Mar 27, 2016 | Devos
This meditation was published in the Mosaic Bible in 2009. I wrote it in the Fall of 2007, when I was living in my parents basement, after our house church died in Las Vegas. I read it at the Easter Vigil last night. So much has changed since then. The Journey...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 26, 2016 | Art, Live Art
I was very humbled and thankful to be part of a wonderfully mournful and worshipful experience of live art and music last night. The Grace choir performed the 7 Last Words of Jesus while I painted on a 12′ X 4′ canvas. The choir sang, the congregation...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 25, 2016 | sermons2016
It’s Maundy Thursday. Thank you for taking the time to invest in this moment. This is one of those moments that defines us as Christians. This past Tuesday we had our regular staff meeting and prayer time. Carroll Potter told a really cool story. She said there was a...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 19, 2016 | Animation, postfoundational, Theology
I am increasingly excited about the upcoming class OMG! Can we talk about God? This morning I extracted a portion from a video I made for the Deep in the Burbs project to be a stand alone visualization of Hans Georg Gadamer’s concept called The Fusion of...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 17, 2016 | Devos
During an election year, it is easy to get bewildered and discouraged by the politicking that fills the airwaves and clogs up the Internet. We watch in wonder as world leaders behave like children and street thugs, bullying each other, throwing around money, and...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 16, 2016 | Bible
We ran an experiment this year. I decided to form an online discussion group at the Grace Learning Center that would focus on the Narrative Lectionary text and the sermon from the preceding week. Every Tuesday since the beginning of the year I have made a video (vlog)...
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by Steve Thomason | Mar 11, 2016 | Theology
How do you react when you hear the word theology or theologian? Does it seem stale, boring, irrelevant? Or, does it seem like something for snobs? I have surprising news. You might be a theologian. If you have ever… Felt like something was “good,”...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 10, 2016 | Bible Doodle, Devos, Visual Preaching
We have been using Adam Hamilton’s video series The Way: Walking in the Footstep of Jesus for our Lenten Wednesday services this year. It’s a great series in which Hamilton teaches on location in Israel. Each session focuses on a different...
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by Steve Thomason | Mar 7, 2016 | Sermons
This post will provide a step-by-step process for how to create a visual sermon/presentation. I’m letting my art-geek self, tech-geek self, and preacher-geek self have a play date. I’m going to use the sermon I just preached this last weekend. This is how...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 4, 2016 | Devos
Today marks the end of my reading of John in The Journey. The passage is John 21:20-25. We have been reading three small sections per week since September. We will read the entire book of Acts next before we finish the course in April. Two important things captured my...
