by Steve Thomason | Sep 11, 2011 | Bible, Spiritual Formation
Many times when I feel cluttered in my mind I will grab the Bible and read the Psalm for the day. Today is the 11th, so I read Psalm 11. It is also the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Look what I read… 1 In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to my soul,...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 7, 2011 | Personal Journal
When my son was younger he had a palate expander cemented into the roof of his mouth. Every day we had to insert a metal rod into the fly wheel at the center of the contraption and crank on it. This motion pushed the butterfly wing extensions on each side of the...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 5, 2011 | Sermons
Yesterday my son, Ethan, paid me a high compliment. He probably doesn’t realize how much it meant to me, but it meant a lot. He was referring to the sermon I had preached that morning about Matthew 18:15-20 “Confront in Love” and said that I should...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 4, 2011 | sermons2011
listen to the audio…CLICK FOR SERMON AUDIO Sermon Text: Matthew 18:15-20 Conflict happens. Story of old couple on porch…”Well, I’m tired of you, too!” Gary Smalley Conference He said two things that really stuck with me: Key to a successful marriage – learn to...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 1, 2011 | Fiction, Writing
I received this email from a reader regarding my novel Pleroma… I started reading Pleroma on the plane. With some skepticism at first, I think…I tend to resist books in the Young Adult genre, because so often they peddle simplistic moral lessons. But the book...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 22, 2011 | Personal Journal
Today I stand at the beginning of a new adventure and a new chapter in my life. At noon I will gather with other PhD students at Luther Seminary for our orientation luncheon. Then, for the next nine days, I will be writing entrance exams. Tomorrow it all begins with a...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 15, 2011 | Fiction, Writing
I am continually surprised by people who tell me they’ve read Pleroma: Book One of the Nectar Trilogy. Just last week I went with our youth group to a Praise in the Park event and one of the students from the other church said, “Hey, you’re the guy...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 14, 2011 | sermons2011
listen to the audio [level-free]CLICK FOR THE SERMON RECORDING[/level-free] The title of this sermon is Faith in Unexpected Places. That’s a good title, but I have an unpublished title. I’d like to call it 19 baskets and a dog dish. First I need you to help me...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 12, 2011 | The Missional Church
An important quote from The Missional Church in Perspective… The church is. The church does what it is. The church organizes what it does.
by Steve Thomason | Aug 10, 2011 | Theology
A passage from the chapter titled Luther’s Theology of the Cross in Christian Dogmatics by Braaten/Jensen Particularly important is the manner in which Luther moves to strip the roses from the cross. Christ comes among us and dies a real death “wrapped in...
