by Steve Thomason | Jun 30, 2014 | Personal Journal, The Trinity
Ernest Simmons showed a picture of a Moebius Triangle to depict the superposition of the persons of the Trinity. ((Simmons, Ernest L. The Entangled Trinity: Quantum Physics and Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014. 152.)) At first I saw the mind-bending...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 30, 2014 | Bible, Personal Journal, The Trinity
The following is the manuscript from a sermon I wrote for this past weekend. I preached it at the Saturday night service and it did not go well as a spoken sermon. This is due partly to the fact that I didn’t follow my manuscript well and the projectionist got...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 23, 2014 | Books - Missional Church, How Do We Think?, The Missional Church
Newbigin, Lesslie. The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans; WCC Publications 1989. The Author – Lesslie Newbigin Key Quotes “If the gospel is to challenge the public life of our society, if Christians are to occupy the “high...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 23, 2014 | Books - Missional Church, How Do We Think?, The Missional Church
Newbigin, Lesslie. Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1986. Author – Lesslie Newbigin My Reflection (this reflection was originally written in January, 2012 for the course Vocation of the...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 12, 2014 | Personal Journal, The Trinity
I became distracted this morning while reading Augustine’s De Trinitate. He was discussing the idea that we can’t love something until we know it ((Book X, p. 288)). When we encounter a new thing—his example was a word that we had never heard—it must,...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 9, 2014 | Bible, Personal Journal, The Trinity
Spirit of pentecost sermon slides Acts 2:1-21 from Steve Thomason When you’re a hammer, everything is a nail. I’ve heard that expression used to describe how teachers can manipulate any text to fit their own theological agenda. I have to admit that the...
