I made a bold step today and dismantled my dissertation. My advisor said that the current draft is like a jigsaw puzzle. I have most of the pieces, but they need to be rearranged. I am a visual thinker, so the best way that I can think of dismantling and reshuffling a...
Thursday, February 26. Matthew 14:1-12. Our theme this Lent season is “Living Upside Down.” Jesus tells us that the Kingdom of Heaven is one in which the last are first, the weak are strong, God’s love is the currency, and the king has the...
The current state of my dissertation reminds me of something that happened when we were building an addition to our house in Las Vegas. We hired a friend to be the general contractor and he had sub-contracted the framing to a carpenter that he trusted. The plan was to...
Wednesday, February 25. Matthew 13:44-58. Imagine that there was a field that was up for sale and it cost $500,000.00. That sounds like a lot of money, doesn’t it? You would probably never consider buying it, would you? Now, imagine that you had discovered that...
Tuesday, February 24. Matthew 13:24-43. I once heard a wise pastor say, “If you are looking for the perfect church, and you find one, don’t join it. Because if you join it, then it won’t be perfect anymore.” Ouch. The fact is that there are no...
Monday, February 23, 2015. Psalm 32:1-2. Imagine that all your sin–all the envy, bitterness, hatred, fear, gossip, selfishness–is like a heavy, stinky, nasty coat that you’ve been wearing that makes you want to throw up it is so bad. Yet, it has been...
Living Upside Down | A Sermon for Ash Wednesday from Matthew 18:1-9 from Grace Lutheran – Andover, MN Listen to the audio CLICK HERE. Narrative Lectionary Text: Matthew 18:1-9. Do we have any pilots in the room? I want you to verify something for me. When a...
Lent has begun! Here are four ways you can engage in the Lenten Journey. The first three are listed at http://www.graceandover.org/lent You can join The Overflow Class online at https://www.stevethomason.net/spiritual-formation/grace If you want to receive the daily...
I received this email yesterday: I recently fell in love with the stations of the cross iPad drawings you created… (they were hanging in a prayer room at the FORMA conference in Houston TX that I attended last month) I wanted you to know that I created a lenten...
Friday, February 20. Matthew 12:33-50. Let’s imagine that you have a tube of toothpaste. Now, imagine that you paint the outside of the tube black, and then take a label from a tube of glue and paste it onto the tube of toothpaste. If you handed that tube to a...
