by Steve Thomason | Nov 3, 2018 | Devos
Shabbat Shalom. That is the greeting you receive when you enter a Sabbath Service at a synagogue. It means Sabbath Peace. Those words had deep meaning for me last night. My two adult sons accompanied me as I met some of our ninth grade Confirmation students and...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 2, 2018 | Art
Another Inktober has come and gone. The challenge is to create one original pen and ink drawing per day in the month of October. It was started by Jake Parker over ten years ago. This is the third year I have done it. October was busy for me, so I only got 23 drawings...
by Steve Thomason | Oct 31, 2018 | Devos
Millions of children will flood the streets of our neighborhoods across the country today. It is this strange moment when we have collectively agreed that it is OK for perfect strangers to knock on our doors in masks, yell at us, demand candy, and walk away. That is...
by Steve Thomason | Oct 25, 2018 | Theology
Reformation Sunday happens this weekend. It is the time when Lutherans tend to wear red and celebrate what a wild and outspoken monk named Martin did 501 years ago in Germany. He was willing to speak truth to power and face the consequences of doing so. We are in the...
by Steve Thomason | Oct 24, 2018 | podcast, sermons2018
What is worship, and how is it relevant in a secular age? That is the big question for this sermon as we continue our Deep Life Series. The key texts are 1 Chronicles 16:23-31, Acts 2:43-47, and Matthew 4:8-11. [slideshare id=120554896&doc=worship-181024114307]...
by Steve Thomason | Oct 20, 2018 | Personal Updates
Fifty years ago today it was a Sunday. That’s appropriate. I guess I was destined to labor on Sundays, since I am a pastor. Well, my mother did the labor that day. I was the third of my parents’ boys. Thanks, Mom, for laboring to bring me into this world. Yes,...
by Steve Thomason | Oct 17, 2018 | podcast, sermons2018
This sermon is part two of a three-week mini series on prayer from A Deep Life series. We live is a noisy world filled with hundreds of voices screaming at us every second of our mediated lives. How can we discern which voice is God’s voice? This sermon explores...
by Steve Thomason | Oct 17, 2018 | podcast, sermons2018
This sermon continues A Deep Life series and launches a three-week mini series on prayer. What is prayer and why is it important. The main text is 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. [slideshare id=119742556&doc=howtopray-181017121518] Read the Manuscript Prayer is...
by Steve Thomason | Oct 2, 2018 | Devos
The world is full of so many voices. The advent of social media has amplified and multiplied these voices so that now they are constantly screaming at us at deafening levels. The question we raise this week, during our second week on prayer in A Deep Life, is this:...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 27, 2018 | Personal Updates
I’m writing this post specifically for my subscribers. Something happened to my site yesterday and everything is broken. I’m not even sure you will receive this post in your daily email subscription. If you read this, please pray that I can find the help I...
