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...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 10, 2017 | Devos
Today’s reading is from Luke 12:35-48. It is the little collection of parables clustered around the theme of a master who has gone away and how the servants must be watchful stewards. I read Justo Gonzalez’s commentary and found it fascinating. He speaks...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 9, 2017 | Animation
Special thanks to my son, Ethan, for being the sound engineer on...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 8, 2017 | Theology
Tim Mackie and Jon Collins from the Bible Project are currently discussing the Holy Spirit on their podcast. This is in preparation for a new Theme Video on the Spirit, coming out soon. I listened to Part 1 and Part 2 yesterday and today and LOVED THEM. I encourage...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 7, 2017 | Personal Updates
I blog because I love to do it. Period. I’ve been doing it in one form or another for over 10 years. A little over two years ago I added a plugin to my WordPress site called MailPoet. It allows me to send a newsletter directly from my WordPress dashboard. It is...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 6, 2017 | The Trinity
A group of high school students meets in my house every Tuesday night. It is not the same group of students from week to week, but, I believe it is the group of students that God wants to be there on any given week. Two weeks ago a student showed up that hadn’t...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 5, 2017 | podcast, sermons2017
This sermon looks at Luke 10:25-42 from the Narrative Lectionary. It brings the story of the Good Samaritan and the story of Mary and Martha together to explore a key theme in the Gospel of Luke. There are two kinds of people: those who listen to Jesus and those who...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 3, 2017 | Devos
The Narrative Lectionary brings the story of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-42 into conversation with the story of Mary and Martha in Luke 10:43-45. We typically preach these stories separately, with very different messages. The Gospel of Luke, however, tells them...
by Steve Thomason | Feb 28, 2017 | Devos
“humans become the God we worship.” I read those words this morning in Richard Rohr’s meditation. Rohr has picked up the theme of the Trinity again in his daily meditations. This gets me very excited because the Trinity was at the heart of my...