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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...
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 3, 2014 | Personal Journal, Religious Education, Spiritual Formation, The Missional Church, The Trinity
I was sorting through some old notes this morning and I came across my visual notes from the CML Conference on the Missional Church and Digital Media. The presentations by Mary Hess and Elizabeth Drescher align so well with Deana Thompson And John Roberto’s...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 1, 2014 | Spiritual Formation
I wrote the following passage today while working on the Spiritual Formation Frame of my dissertation. It kind of wrote itself as I was working. What I mean is that I had no intention of including Willard in this section. Then, when I looked more closely at...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 1, 2014 | Books - Suburban Studies
Read Filling the Governance Gap by Allan Wallis, my annotated copy of this article. Wallis, Allan D. “Filling the Governance Gap.” National Civic Review 87, no. 1 (1998). Notes The dominant vision for regional growth Ownership of a detached single-family...
