by Steve Thomason | Nov 29, 2016 | Devos
This weekend is the second week of Advent. We will light the candle of LOVE. The Narrative Lectionary calls for Joel 2:12-13, 28-29. I preached on this text, on Advent 2, four years ago and created this image back then. You can hear the sermon here. Now, I come to the...
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by Steve Thomason | Nov 21, 2016 | Bible Doodle, Devos, Visual Preaching
Do you ever feel like you are stuck in a hopeless situation? Many millennials feel trapped by the fact that a college education is so expensive that, even if they get one, they will be so buried under debt that they will never get out. What’s the point? Many...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 8, 2016 | Devos
The election is raging across the country as I write this blog post. I have the Google election results window open next to my post entry screen, so I can see which color the country will be in the morning as I write these thoughts. The thing that is more interesting...
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...
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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...
