by Steve Thomason | Dec 28, 2012 | sermons2012
Narrative Lectionary Text: Luke 2:8-20 There is no manuscript for this sermon because I didn’t write one. I had a basic idea of where I wanted to go, and decided to see what happened when I started talking. The sermon is based on the fact that the word...
by Steve Thomason | Dec 21, 2012 | sermons2012
Narrative Lectionary Text: Joel 2:12-13, 28-29 What do you long for? I have a hunch that if we were honest, that every one of us in this room has a deep longing for something right now. Granted, for some of you, it might be a longing that the Vikings would win the...
by Steve Thomason | Dec 3, 2012 | sermons2012
Narrative Lectionary Text: Daniel 6:6-27 Today is the first Sunday of Advent. Advent is all about waiting. The problem is that we hate to wait! Waiting is hard to do. We’re suburbanites. We don’t wait for things. If the person in front of us at the light waits more...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 21, 2012 | sermons2012
Narrative Lectionary Text: Isaiah 6:1-8 [pretend to shoot a gun] “bang!” “Holy Blank, Batman!” Get it? I shot a blank. That’s funny. Do you remember who used to say “Holy ______” all the time? Robin. Right. As in Batman and Robin. The caped crusader’s sidekick was...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 7, 2012 | sermons2012
Sermon preached at Grace Lutheran Church. October 7, 2012 | Text: Exodus 32:1-14 Listen to the audio A couple weeks ago I was walking down the street and…oh, wait. No, sorry. That wasn’t me. That was supposed to be a joke. The funny thing about it is that I actually...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 7, 2012 | sermons2012
Narrative Lectionary text: 1 Kings 17:1-16 Sandy hit hard this week. It’s hard to imagine what that storm was like, especially as we sat here in such perfect fall weather. Have you tracked with the story at all? Seeing the images of the streets of New York all empty...