by Steve Thomason | Apr 17, 2025 | Devos, Spiritual Formation
We have a weekly practice at Luther Seminary called Lunch Church. Every Thursday we gather in the Dining Room at 11:00am to share good food, good conversation, scripture, and prayer. It is simple, and I love it.
It is ironic that on this Thursday we are not gathering for Lunch Church. It is Spring Break. I’m on vacation. Students are scattered to the wind. Most people are about to launch into the most intense four days of the Church calendar: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday.
by Steve Thomason | Apr 9, 2025 | Devos
In this post I reflect on how the Gospel of Luke tells the story of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. The crowds shout “peace in the heavens, and glory in the highest!” What does this mean?
by Steve Thomason | Feb 25, 2025 | Devos
https://youtu.be/QX7eUUsX7Os A Glimpse! This week in our journey through the Gospel of Luke we come to the climactic turning point in Jesus’ story. His time of ministry in Galilee is finished. He is ready to turn his eyes to Jerusalem and take his death march. He is...
by Steve Thomason | Feb 17, 2025 | Devos
How Can We Possibly Love Them?!? Here is a strange reality of human existence. Each tribe has its own version of “them” to place in the question above. How could we possibly love…them? Many of my friends, family, and students in the LGBTQIA+ and...
by Steve Thomason | Jan 24, 2025 | Bible, Devos
I’m struggling with how to be present as a pastor in this moment of life in the United States in light of certain executive orders that have been issued. Many of the people with whom I work and serve are terrified right now because their lives, and their...
by Steve Thomason | Mar 15, 2024 | Devos
Wars. Wildfires. Shootings. Political divides. Hatred. Is it the end of the world? Where is God in all the mess? Jesus gives us some clues in Mark 13 and the coming of the end of the Temple in Jerusalem.
