by Steve Thomason | Aug 13, 2014 | Devos
The world mourns the loss of a truly gifted artist. Robin Williams was a brilliant actor. I loved almost everything role I saw him perform. One of my favorite characters that he played was a boy named Jack. He had a rare disease that accelerated his aging process by...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 12, 2014 | Devos
A Reflection on Ruth 1:20-21 Have you ever felt like your life has gotten completely out of control, and all seems lost? No matter where you turn you seem to find tragedy and loss. You turn on the News and see bombs flying and children dying. You look in your own home...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 11, 2014 | Adult Learning, Building Community, Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self, postfoundational, Religious Education, Spiritual Formation, Spirituality in Adult Learning, The Trinity, Theories of Adult Learning
Deep in the Burbs is a story of people in formation. The task of this project—to ask how an increased awareness and understanding of the social Trinity might impact the ideation and praxis of spiritual formation in suburban ELCA congregations—implies that something...
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 10, 2014 | Sermons
The sabbatical is over and it’s time to get preaching again. We will preach a three-week series on Ruth, beginning next Sunday. I will preach the first and third and Pastor Mark will preach the second. We are following the Narrative Lectionary, but are one week...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 8, 2014 | Spiritual Formation
I’m beginning to work on a project that is tentatively called “The Journey: Finding Your Way for a Life in God” The following three images are the three metaphors from which I will draw throughout the course. It will be an eight-session course,...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 8, 2014 | Spiritual Formation
I’m beginning to work on a project that is tentatively called “The Journey: Finding Your Way for a Life in God” The following three images are the three metaphors from which I will draw throughout the course. It will be an eight-session course,...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 7, 2014 | Devos
We follow the Narrative Lectionary at Grace. That means the scripture from which we preach is determined at the beginning of the year and moves through the Bible chronologically. I love this style of preaching for two reasons: (1) it promotes Biblical fluency in the...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 5, 2014 | Personal Updates, Sermons, Spiritual Formation
I’ve been playing around with an idea lately. I have always given my content away freely from this site. There are tons of Bible Study material here. The problem is that I have no idea who is using it, why they’re using it, or if it is actually being used...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 4, 2014 | How Do We Think?, postfoundational, The Trinity
The Deep in the Burbs Research project is a postmodern story about navigating the treacherous waters between the Scylla of absolutism/positivism/foundationalism and the Charybdis of relativism/nihilism/deconstructivism. ((Scylla and Charybdis refers to the hazards...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 3, 2014 | ministry, Personal Updates, Youth Ministry
OK, that title is a little weird, I know. I am excited to get back to preaching and teaching at Grace. I will spend one more week on the dissertation and then it’s time to preach, and get prepared to teach catechism, teach adult classes, and create some new...
