by Steve Thomason | Sep 26, 2014 | Bible
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by Steve Thomason | Sep 25, 2014 | Devos
Today’s reading is found in Exodus 3:1-12. Moses encounters the voice of God coming from a burning bush. God told Moses to take off his sandals because that place was now holy ground. Notice the order of that statement. It wasn’t designated as holy ground...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 23, 2014 | Books - Spirituality, Books - Trinity, postfoundational
Grenz, Stanley J. The Social God and the Relational Self: A Trinitarian Theology of the Imago Dei. 1st ed. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. Author – Stanley Grenz Grenz traces the historical backdrop of the concept of self in the West in order...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 22, 2014 | Personal Journal, Personal Updates
Today I stop to take a breath. I have been running hard and fast since the day I returned from Sabbatical. There is an intense amount of work to do in late August and early September when leading Youth Ministry, Adult Ministry, preaching, and supervising...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 22, 2014 | Devos
Today’s reading needs no devotional interpretation. Would you be able to take the step Joseph did? When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” So they...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 18, 2014 | Personal Journal
I reached a way-point on my research project today. I finished transcribing the most recent team session audio file (it was 46 pages long). All of the emails, online comments, and transcripts are up-to-date and placed in NVivo. I will not have to transcribe audio...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 18, 2014 | sermons2014
Listen to sermon audio I want to start off today with a really difficult question. Why did God choose Abraham? Is God into playing favorites? Let’s think about it. Last week we talked about Noah’s family and the flood and how God made a promise to all...
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by Steve Thomason | Sep 17, 2014 | Bible
Join Pastor Steve as we take ONE BIG DAY to learn the ONE BIG STORY of the Bible. October 11, 2014 | 9am – 3pm (lunch included) | Grace Lutheran Church, Andover It doesn’t matter if you’ve never read the Bible before, or if you’ve studied it...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 17, 2014 | Devos
One of the many reasons that I believe the Bible is true is because it isn’t afraid to display all the ugly warts of the family tree. Think about it. If you were making up a story about how your family was the “chosen one” that God loved more than...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 11, 2014 | Devos
How do you handle the unknown? Are you the type that likes to explore unknown places and experiences? Or, are you the type that likes to hunker down in safe, familiar places and build walls of protection around yourself? In Genesis 11:1-9 we see that the people of the...
