by Steve Thomason | Jul 25, 2017 | podcast, sermons2017
This sermon comes from the summer worship series: The Good Life. It uses Gary Smalley’s LUV Talk as a practical tool for carrying out the ministry of reconciliation to which the church is called. I did not write a manuscript, so please follow along in the...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 24, 2017 | Building Community
We preached about conflict in our Good Life Series yesterday. I decided to get really practical and walk the congregation through the steps of LUV Talk as I learned them from the Smalley Institute. Here is the illustrated guide. Please note that I did not get...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 22, 2017 | podcast, Sermons
This week we are talking about how to deal with Conflict. This is the mind map I sketched to think through the sermon. I will not use this actual image in the sermon, but I have illustrated Gary Smalley’s LUV Talk. I decided to get really practical and offer the...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 21, 2017 | podcast, sermons2017
This sermon is part of our summer worship series: The Good Life. We explore how to process emotions in the church. All of our emotions are a good gift from God. We need to have a safe space to process them as we carry each other’s burdens and do life together....
by Steve Thomason | Jul 20, 2017 | Devos
Study this simple drawing for a moment. I drew it quickly this morning in response to three things that converged on me during my quiet time. We are talking about Differences in the sermon this weekend, so that has been on my mind all week and formed the lens for the...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 18, 2017 | Devos
Our series on the Good Life takes us into some dangerous territory this week. We’re going to talk about Differences. When I first saw that title I thought we were going to talk about diversity and how our differences make up the beautiful tapestry of the Body of...
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by Steve Thomason | Jul 14, 2017 | podcast, Sermons
This is the mind map I made this morning in preparation for the sermon this weekend. I invite you to meditate on it and offer any feedback you think might be helpful for the sermon. Peace.
by Steve Thomason | Jul 12, 2017 | Personal Updates
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by Steve Thomason | Jul 11, 2017 | Devos
Our Good Life Series brings us to the topic of Emotions this week. Emotions in church? Maybe the Pentecostals are into that, but this is a Lutheran church full of people descended from Scandanavians. It’s more like the first church of Vulcan than a place where...
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by Steve Thomason | Jul 9, 2017 | Caricatures
I started this sketch on my iPad in Procreate while waiting for my daughter’s graduation ceremony to start. I noodled it for a while in Procreate and then brought it into Corel Painter 2016 on my Mac to finish. It’s nice to be able to transfer between...
