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...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 3, 2018 | Personal Updates
My dear friends in cyberspace. I begin a digital fast today. The plan is to stay away from email, social media, and my compulsive need to blog and share articles on Facebook between now and July 22. I hope to read at least one book in a paper format, paint with real...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 29, 2018 | Devos
I have discovered a poetic beauty in 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 that I have never seen before. Allow me to step through each section of the text visually. I have written the English words in the order of the Greek language, so that you may see the structural beauty of this...
