by Steve Thomason | Sep 4, 2018 | Spiritual Formation
We start a new worship series at Easter this week called A Deep Life. The series came out of a crisis moment. Our lead pastor resigned in the Spring, leaving the rest of the pastoral team wondering what we do next. We decided to focus this next year on one of our...
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 27, 2018 | Theology
We come to the end of our Summer Worship Series this weekend. We have journeyed through section four of Brian McLaren’s book We Make the Road by Walking. This series is called Alive and we have explored how the Holy Spirit empowers us to move into deeper levels of...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 23, 2018 | podcast, Sermons
The world is a violent place. The horrifying story of Mollie Tibbetts shoves that in our faces this week. Violence happens at the personal level, as with Mollie, at the geo-political level as we stand in frozen horror with Nuclear missiles at the ready, and everything...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 20, 2018 | Art
Today marks the end of a wild and wonderful summer. It contained two weeks of Vacation Bible School, three weeks of vacation, a week of Youth Missions, a weekend of Family Camp, and a week of Confirmation Camp. Whew! Now I have a couple weeks to get ready to crank it...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 8, 2018 | Spiritual Formation
I spent last week with a group of high school students at a Youthworks site in Wanblee, SD, an Indian village on the Pine Ridge Reservation (the chief told me he prefers to be called Indian rather than Native American). This was a deep learning experience for all of...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 7, 2018 | Devos
The nation watches in horror as wildfires rage across California. “Why would God let this happen?” many ask. Here is something we must keep in mind. Forest fires are a natural process that cleans out the dead wood and unlocks the next generation of trees....
by Steve Thomason | Jul 28, 2018 | Personal Updates
Please pray for the two groups that leave today for South Dakota. One group of middle school students will travel to Rapid City, Sout Dakota. The trip on which I will participate is a high school group that is traveling to Wanblee, S.D. which is in the Pine Ridge...
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by Steve Thomason | Jul 27, 2018 | Devos
Our text this week is Hebrews 13:1-8. I’m not preaching, but I have been captured by the first line of the text. The love for the brother is important, but it can become insular and even dangerous if we forget that the love for the stranger is equally important. I...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 24, 2018 | podcast, sermons2018
This sermon continues the Alive Series taken from Brian McLaren’s book We Make the Road by Walking. We cannot say that God is love or that we love God without recognizing that the love of God is the love for neighbor. The story of Peter and Cornelius in Acts...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 23, 2018 | Spiritual Formation
Welcome to by break-fast post! The digital fast has ended. I spent the last three weeks on a personal vacation which included a fast from social media and most digital media in general. I say most digital media because I did create some art on my iPad (but I...
