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...
by Steve Thomason | Jan 8, 2013 | Spiritual Formation
The piece that I will contribute to our http://graceandover.org/Sunday-Evenings-Grace.htmlthis spring is called Animate. Here’s an intro:
by Steve Thomason | Jan 6, 2013 | Spiritual Formation, Theology
This weekend I’m preaching a sermon about the Unexpected Kingdom that Jesus brings where he turns our upward tendency toward “perfection” upside down and shows us the path of outward growth in love. I preached it once last night. This morning I saw...