by Steve Thomason | Aug 23, 2017 | podcast, sermons2017
This sermon continues The Good Life series and focuses in on love. Little did we know, when we planned the series, that this topic would fall in the same week that white supremacist groups rallied in Charlottesville. These events prompted an official statement from...
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 21, 2017 | Personal Updates
Allow me to begin this post by admitting that I presented some junk data in my sermon over the weekend and I intend to correct it here. We preached on Love this weekend as part of our Good Life Series. Little did we know, when we planned the series, that it would fall...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 19, 2017 | Devos
The Narrative Lectionary Text for today is Revelation 3:14-22. It is my almost daily habit to click over to clergy stuff and get the text for the day to begin my quiet time. This morning I read this passage through the lens of having to preach tonight and tomorrow...
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 18, 2017 | Devos
We are preaching about love this weekend. Here is a visual meditation I did yesterday. Pray for Pastor Brandon and me as he preaches on the Hill and I preach by the Lake. Love and peace to you.
by Steve Thomason | Aug 16, 2017 | Youth Ministry
What do you get when you combine a over sixty middle school students, fifteen high school students, a bunch of energetic college students, a beautiful campground, an amazing staff of leaders and teachers, and Luther’s small Catechism? You get my week. I get to...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 15, 2017 | Devos
The past few days has been a bizarre contrast of events for me. On one side there was love. I spent the weekend with twelve families from Easter at a family camp at Wapo. It was oozing with love and community. Yesterday we taught our first two sessions at Confirmation...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 12, 2017 | Spiritual Formation
The Good Life Worship Series brings us to the topic of Spirituality this week. I am not preaching since I’m at Family Camp this weekend. However, I have a lot to say about Spirituality. In fact, my dissertation was about spirituality in the suburban context....
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 11, 2017 | Devos
I posted a visual meditation yesterday that contrasted two views of the Bible and two acronyms and asked readers to respond. All of my posts automatically push out to Facebook. Pam Wymore responded on that Facebook post with another acronym. It captured my imagination...
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 10, 2017 | Devos
This is a visual meditation that contrasts two ways to understand the nature and purpose of the Bible. This image has been percolating in my mind for a while. The daily devo from Clergy Stuff this morning inspired me to actually draw it out. I invite you to meditate...
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 7, 2017 | Youth Ministry
Is it possible to experience The Good Life while sleeping on a tile floor on a deflated air mattress in the basement of a church, leading a group of middle school students 24/7 for a whole week? I stand to confess that yes, it is possible–not easy–but...
