by Steve Thomason | Apr 10, 2017 | Personal Updates
Grace. Easter. The Final Week/Holy Week/Passion Week. These are familiar terms that all Christians share. Grace is God’s unmerited favor. Easter is the day we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection. The Final Week contains the events that happened between...
by Steve Thomason | Apr 6, 2017 | Theology
Here is the latest theme video from The Bible Project. I would recommend listening to their podcasts to supplement this short...
by Steve Thomason | Apr 2, 2017 | podcast, sermons2017
Jesus said to Zacchaeus, “Today, Salvation has come this house.” What does that mean? How can there be salvation before Jesus died on the cross? This sermon reframes the Zacchaeus story in a missional imagination. View the PowerPoint [slideshare...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 30, 2017 | Bible
I wonder if Zacchaeus was a person of peace. Jesus looked up into the tree and said, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today. (Luke 19:5)” I wonder why. There were lots of people in Jericho that day. So many people, in fact, that they...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 28, 2017 | Devos
Two readings converged on me this morning. The first was from Luke 18:31-19:10, because I will preach on the story of Zacchaeus this week. The second is from John 1:1-5 and Richard Rohr’s meditation in which Rohr provides an alternate translation. The first...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 26, 2017 | podcast, sermons2017
View the PowerPoint [slideshare id=73673613&doc=agreatchasmsermonslides-170326222824] Read the Manuscript Marley was dead, to begin with. Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. These are the opening lines to what classic story? A Christmas Carol. My favorite...
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by Steve Thomason | Mar 23, 2017 | Devos
The daily reading for today is Proverbs 21:1-5, The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. 2 All deeds are right in the sight of the doer, but the Lord weighs the heart. 3 To do righteousness and justice is more...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 17, 2017 | Bible Doodle, Visual Preaching
The Narrative Lectionary calls for Luke 15 this week. It is the triad story of lost and found things and how God likes to party when the lost is found. Below are some pictures that I drew for this story last year. First, there is a story behind these pictures that you...
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by Steve Thomason | Mar 13, 2017 | Personal Updates
The phrase “following the cloud” is more than a tagline for my blog. It is how I try to live my life. I adopted this phrase many years ago when I was teaching the Bible A-Z class at Central Christian Church in Las Vegas. I observed how God leads...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 11, 2017 | Devos
A strange confluence of reading happened this morning. It is strange for two reasons. First, because I read the wrong passage in Luke. The sleep must have been caked a little heavier than usual this morning, and I accidentally read the passage for next Saturday in...
