by Steve Thomason | Jan 29, 2017 | The Missional Church
Richard Rohr speaks a great deal about nondual thinking. His current series of daily meditations draws heavily on it. Read today’s post. Rohr says, The dualistic mind is essentially binary, either/or thinking. It knows by comparison, opposition, and...
by Steve Thomason | Jan 27, 2017 | The Missional Church
I had the opportunity to c0-teach a Missional Leadership course in the D.Min. program at Luther Seminary this week with Dr. Terri Elton. This was a wonderful group of church leaders thinking seriously about this topic. This post is for them. Here is the image in...
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by Steve Thomason | Jan 27, 2017 | Personal Updates
This has been a wonderful week. Dr. Terri Elton invited me to co-teach a Doctor of Ministry intensive course in Missional Leadership with her at Luther Seminary. We’ve spent the past four days, 9am-5pm, interacting with nine amazing ministry leaders who are...
by Steve Thomason | Jan 23, 2017 | Spiritual Formation, The Missional Church
Richard Rohr has fascinated me for many years. I read his daily meditations almost every day. This morning I found myself drawn in to his Introduction to the 2017 Daily Meditations theme in this 8-minute video called “From the Bottom Up.” During the video...
by Steve Thomason | Jan 20, 2017 | Devos
The inauguration of Donald Trump looms large on the landscape today. Many in our country mourn the exit of Obama and live in fear of what Trump brings to the world. They see this as a day of protest. Others in our country celebrate the exit of Obama and see this as a...
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by Steve Thomason | Jan 18, 2017 | Devos
The text for this week is Luke 5:1-11. I am not preaching, so I probably won’t dive too deeply into it this week. I thought I would offer up two resources for you. First, here is the commentary on the calling of the disciples that I wrote in The Life of Jesus,...
by Steve Thomason | Jan 17, 2017 | Art
Our Narrative Lectionary Painting Project Kickstarter Campaign has 19 days left. We are 26% funded. Please watch this video and consider helping to make this a...
by Steve Thomason | Jan 16, 2017 | Theology
It is MLK Day, and in my practice of spiritual-devotions-by-wandering-through-blog-feeds God led me to an article that made me very uncomfortable. I am grateful for it. I was led to the article because of this post by A Church For Starving Artists entitled “Meet Chad...
by Steve Thomason | Jan 15, 2017 | podcast, sermons2017
This sermon looks at the story of Jesus when he preached in his hometown synagogue. It started out as good news. He is the Messiah. Then things went bad and the people tried to kill him. What changed their minds? Follow the PowerPoint [slideshare...
by Steve Thomason | Jan 14, 2017 | Bible
How do we reconcile the seemingly loving and peaceful Jesus with a seemingly vengeful and angry God of the Hebrew Bible? This is a sticking point for many people, especially in a society so saturated with hate crimes. I bring this up today because it is early Saturday...
