by Steve Thomason | Sep 14, 2018 | Spiritual Formation
I am very pleased to announce that we will offer The Journey at Easter Lutheran Church this year. I will lead a large group/small group meeting at Easter by the Lake on the third Tuesday of each month for anyone who would like to experience the journey with me....
by Steve Thomason | Sep 13, 2018 | Spiritual Formation
This week we focus on the fact that the Deep Life is like a Journey. Everyone is somewhere on their spiritual journey. Our key text for this week is Colossians 2:6-7. (see more on Colossians here). We looked at this text during the summer. Here it is annotated: Do you...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 7, 2018 | Spiritual Formation, Suburban Studies
I’ve been wrestling with the first sermon in our new series A Deep Life all day. My problem is that I have SO MUCH to say that I’m afraid a) I will overwhelm people, and b) it will go too long. I am so excited about this series, because it hits the core of...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 6, 2018 | Spiritual Formation
What does it mean to have a Deep Life? Meditate on this image for a while. What do you see? How is each figure related to the ocean? There are five figures in this image. Each one has a relationship with the ocean. Each relationship is good and valid. Yet, each one...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 4, 2018 | Spiritual Formation
We start a new worship series at Easter this week called A Deep Life. The series came out of a crisis moment. Our lead pastor resigned in the Spring, leaving the rest of the pastoral team wondering what we do next. We decided to focus this next year on one of our...
by Steve Thomason | Aug 8, 2018 | Spiritual Formation
I spent last week with a group of high school students at a Youthworks site in Wanblee, SD, an Indian village on the Pine Ridge Reservation (the chief told me he prefers to be called Indian rather than Native American). This was a deep learning experience for all of...
