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by Steve Thomason | Aug 11, 2016 | Bible
I plan to teach a course on how to study the Bible at Grace this fall and I need your help. What should I call this course? It is designed for beginners who may be intimidated by the Bible. It will give them skills to interpret scripture for themselves. Here are some...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 4, 2016 | Devos
I would like to take an informal survey of my online community to help get prepared for the second sermon in the Job series coming up on August 13/14. Here’s the question I pose to you: What are some of the worst things that people have said to you when you...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 29, 2016 | Devos
Next weekend we begin a five-week sermon series through the book of Job from the collection of Wisdom literature in the Hebrew Scripture. Most people react to this news with either an eye roll or a slouch in the shoulders. “Job! Really? It’s so depressing.” True. Job...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 23, 2016 | Bible, Books - Spirituality
Chapter Six of Dallas Willard’s book Hearing God is titled “The Word of God & the Rule of God.” It is a fabulous exploration of how the word of God is the source of and intertwined with reality itself. He says, “The very phrase ‘still small voice’ [from the...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 1, 2016 | Devos
Are you able to call God Father? Some people are not. Many people had horrible fathers that abused them. Many people didn’t know their fathers because they walked out. Many people associate the term father with a long, painful history of male domination and the...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 27, 2016 | Devos
We begin a four-week series on the Lord’s Prayer this weekend. Luke’s version of the prayer, in Luke 11:2-4, simply begins, “Father…” This is a relational term and opens up the outrageous possibility that the finite human is invited to...
