by Steve Thomason | Sep 3, 2014 | Devos
In Today’s reading from Ruth 3:14-18, we see that Boaz heaps generosity on Ruth and gives her all the grain she could have imagined. This was just a taste of the way that he would provide for her for the rest of her life. This got me to thinking about how the...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 2, 2014 | Devos
Many of you start back to school today. Some of you started back last week. This is a day that brings many mixed emotions. It is exciting to start a new year, to see old friends, and to be a year older. It is also full of great anxiety over the unknown. What if my...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 31, 2014 | Spiritual Formation, The Missional Church
I was very happy to discover a kindred spirit through the help of Twitter. Christopher B. James is a PhD Candidate at Boston University School of Theology in Practical Theology with a dual-concentration in Church & Society and Evangelism. He blogs about it at...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 30, 2014 | The Missional Church
Deep in the Burbs is a story about the church and the belief that the missional church–missional ecclesiology–offers hope for the church in the twenty-first century. A missional ecclesiology is an understanding that the mission of the Triune God ((I will...
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 29, 2014 | Art, Book Reviews, Spiritual Formation
I needed to take a little break from sermon writing this afternoon, so I found myself standing in front of my bookshelf and letting my eyes wander. I do that sometimes. It seems like the Spirit often draws me there because there is something I need to read. One...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 28, 2014 | Personal Journal, Spiritual Formation
This is how the internet works…for some of us, anyway. I was on Facebook and saw two of my academic colleagues–Ken Reynhout and Josh de Keijzer–shared a post by Peter Enns that was written by Jeannine Brown. (check out the animation I did for...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 26, 2014 | Devos
Do you have any heroes? They may be sports heroes, political heroes, personal heroes. All heroes have two things in common. First, they save people. That’s what heroes do, right? A sports hero saves a team from losing. A political hero saves a nation from dying....
by Steve Thomason | Aug 25, 2014 | Devos
We are coming to the final week of our series on Ruth. I recommend you read this commentary from Kathryn Schifferdecker.
by Steve Thomason | Aug 23, 2014 | The Trinity
Deep in the Burbs is a story of the Triune God. The research question asks “How might an increased awareness of the social Trinity impact the ideation and praxis of spiritual formation in suburban ELCA congregations?” It might be easy to think of this as if the social...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 22, 2014 | Devos
Many of you will return to school in the next week or two. Some of you have already started. One of the scariest moments of the new school year is when you enter the cafeteria and wonder where you are going to sit. This is the great dividing of the population,...
