by Steve Thomason | Sep 16, 2016 | Bible Doodle, Visual Preaching
Download PowerPoint The following images walk through the story of Abram (before he was called Abraham) in Genesis 12-15. I made them for the sermon I will preach this weekend as a way to quickly set the context for Genesis 15:6. Enjoy the...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 13, 2016 | Devos
The text for the upcoming sermon is Genesis 15:1-6. God had made a promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3 that he would make his descendants into a great nation and that through that nation all nations would be blessed. Abraham had left everything to follow God’s...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 10, 2016 | Devos
I listened to the Home-brewed christianity podcast episode Liberal Christian Piety with Douglas Ottati this morning on my walk. It covered a lot of wonderful topics, but one phrase jumped out at me. Ottati quoted Romans 6:23, “for the wages of sin is death.” “Whose...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 4, 2016 | sermons2016
This is the final sermon in a five part series on the story of Job from the Hebrew Scripture. There are two take-aways from this series. First, we can be honest with God, no matter how we feel. God invites us into authentic relationship. Second, God calls us into the...
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 29, 2016 | Animation, Thketches
https://youtu.be/uXRpBknhljg?rel=0 Ideas often unfold for me while I’m walking. Last Thursday morning this video unfolded in my mind. It has three origins: The final sermon in the series on Job is coming up over Labor Day weekend. The wisdom of Job leads us to...
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 25, 2016 | Devos, postfoundational
Richard Rohr’s meditations on paradox have been especially helpful for me this week. My Facebook friends know that I’ve been sharing them all week (see below). They have spoken to me for many reasons. One reason is related to the current sermon series on...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 22, 2016 | Caricatures
Another day off doodle to capture the spirit of Rio 2016 Olympics. Usain Bolt, fastest man alive. A quick sketch in Corel Painter 2016.
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 21, 2016 | sermons2016
job-suffering-and-spiritual-growthfrom Steve Thomason This is the third sermon in a five-part series on the book of Job. We look at Job 19:25 and see how Job was still in a dark place. The sermon demonstrates how there are different types of pain and how they each...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 19, 2016 | Devos
Galatians 5 has been rattling around in my brain all week. I mentioned in my that I feel compelled to discuss the phases of the spiritual Journey in the sermon this weekend. Part of that process is to focus on the “works of the flesh” that Paul lists in...
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by Steve Thomason | Aug 16, 2016 | Devos
Today I find myself standing between the second and third weeks of a five-part sermon series on the book of Job. Last week we focused on the conversations that Job had with Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. They wrongfully accused him of sin, because that was their only...
