by Steve Thomason | Sep 7, 2017 | Devos
What’s the big deal about Jesus? Wasn’t he just another dude who lived a long time ago in a culture that is so different from ours that anything he said has no bearing on our situation? That’s a valid question. This post is a visual exploration of...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 6, 2017 | podcast, Sermons
A daunting challenge has been set before us as preachers this week. We kick off the CORE worship series with the topic: Jesus is God’s Best Idea Ever! This is a clever way of tackling the theological categories of Christology (the study of who Jesus is and why...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 5, 2017 | Devos
We launch our Fall Worship Series this Sunday. The series is called CORE and we’ll spend eight weeks looking at the core elements of our faith. The first week is titled “Jesus is God’s Best Idea Ever.” The texts are Galatians 2:16-21 and Luke...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 31, 2017 | Spiritual Formation
What is the purpose and process of spiritual formation? That is a question that fuels my life’s work. I am currently reading (listening to) Richard Rohr’s Book Hidden Things: Scripture as Spirituality and it has reaffirmed and contributed to my understanding of the...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 29, 2017 | podcast, Sermons
We conclude our summer worship series this weekend. The series is called the Good Life and each week we have looked at a different aspect of what it looks like to live the good life, the abundant life that Jesus spoke of in John 10:10. This week we finish the series...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 25, 2017 | Theology
I’ve been working on a resource this summer that will help people dig into the topics covered in Luther’s Small Catechism. I’ve done this for three reasons: I am responsible to oversee the Confirmation process at Easter. We spend one year teaching...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 25, 2017 | Devos
Thinking about our worship weekend. Students and adults will give testimony to how they saw God at work on our youth mission trips this summer. This is my mind map from this morning.
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 24, 2017 | Spiritual Formation
Yesterday was not great. I felt off, weak, and really weepy. I hate it when that happens. Then God showed up. I never cease to be amazed at the way God speaks in clusters of events and experiences. This happened to me yesterday and this morning again. Yesterday, I had...
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...
