by Steve Thomason | Feb 17, 2013 | Spiritual Formation
Youth Ministry and Spintuality Project A contemplative approach to ministry with youth is founded on the premise that what all young persons ultimately desire, like Franny Glass, is not only an experience of God, but a whole way of life, a spirituality that sustains...
by Steve Thomason | Feb 14, 2013 | Spiritual Formation
Lent is traditionally a time when people take on some sort of fast. That’s a strange word when you think about it. Fast. We go fast all the time in our culture, don’t we? Do we really need to go faster? Maybe we should call it a slow so we can give up going fast. I...
by Steve Thomason | Feb 13, 2013 | ministry, Spiritual Formation
I’m looking forward to engaging this new group in the Animate.Faith class at Sunday Evenings @ Grace. Here are the key questions we’ll discuss over the course of these eight weeks together: Is God Real? Can We Be Spiritual Without Being Religious? What is...
by Steve Thomason | Feb 4, 2013 | Youth Ministry
“OK, everybody,” I said, “There is an iPod hidden in this room and if you find it, you can keep it. Go!” That is how I started the lesson yesterday. It was the first Sunday of February, which means we launched the next topic in our How Do I...
by Steve Thomason | Jan 22, 2013 | ministry, Personal Updates
This week I get to feel the full impact of being the Associate Pastor. Our senior pastor is gone for the week on a much-deserved 25th wedding anniversary trip with his wife. That means I preached last weekend and will preach again this weekend. When he left I said,...
by Steve Thomason | Jan 20, 2013 | Art, Sermons, Spiritual Formation
This is a graphic I made for this week’s sermon. Do we run in the rat race which is restricted to pursuing your individual freedom, or do we run the God race, g-race, in which God runs toward all people and invites us to join in. Have we been set free from...
