by Steve Thomason | Jun 30, 2014 | Bible, Personal Journal, The Trinity
The following is the manuscript from a sermon I wrote for this past weekend. I preached it at the Saturday night service and it did not go well as a spoken sermon. This is due partly to the fact that I didn’t follow my manuscript well and the projectionist got...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 12, 2014 | Personal Journal, The Trinity
I became distracted this morning while reading Augustine’s De Trinitate. He was discussing the idea that we can’t love something until we know it ((Book X, p. 288)). When we encounter a new thing—his example was a word that we had never heard—it must,...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 9, 2014 | Bible, Personal Journal, The Trinity
Spirit of pentecost sermon slides Acts 2:1-21 from Steve Thomason When you’re a hammer, everything is a nail. I’ve heard that expression used to describe how teachers can manipulate any text to fit their own theological agenda. I have to admit that the...
by Steve Thomason | May 31, 2014 | Personal Journal, Spiritual Formation, Suburban Studies
I decided to read The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality. It has occured to me that I have become bogged down in the epistemological concerns section of the dissertation and have not attended well to the actual core of my research, which is the topic of...
by Steve Thomason | May 26, 2014 | Personal Journal, The Trinity
by Steve Thomason | May 3, 2014 | Bible, Personal Journal, The Missional Church, The Trinity
Someone recently handed me an issue of Decision magazine (May 2014). The front cover had a picture of a yellow warning sign with a graphic of a church that was teetering on the top of a crumbling foundation. The headline read “The Danger of Compromise.” I...
