by Steve Thomason | Aug 23, 2017 | podcast, sermons2017
This sermon continues The Good Life series and focuses in on love. Little did we know, when we planned the series, that this topic would fall in the same week that white supremacist groups rallied in Charlottesville. These events prompted an official statement from...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 25, 2017 | podcast, sermons2017
This sermon comes from the summer worship series: The Good Life. It uses Gary Smalley’s LUV Talk as a practical tool for carrying out the ministry of reconciliation to which the church is called. I did not write a manuscript, so please follow along in the...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 22, 2017 | podcast, Sermons
This week we are talking about how to deal with Conflict. This is the mind map I sketched to think through the sermon. I will not use this actual image in the sermon, but I have illustrated Gary Smalley’s LUV Talk. I decided to get really practical and offer the...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 21, 2017 | podcast, sermons2017
This sermon is part of our summer worship series: The Good Life. We explore how to process emotions in the church. All of our emotions are a good gift from God. We need to have a safe space to process them as we carry each other’s burdens and do life together....
by Steve Thomason | Jul 14, 2017 | podcast, Sermons
This is the mind map I made this morning in preparation for the sermon this weekend. I invite you to meditate on it and offer any feedback you think might be helpful for the sermon. Peace.
by Steve Thomason | Jul 6, 2017 | podcast, sermons2017
This sermon continues our summer series on The Good Life. It also happened to fall on the Weekend of Independence Day in the USA. So, we explore the difference between the American Dream of the Good Life and the God Dream of the Good Life that Jesus promised to bring....