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Adult Learning

A Sketch of an article by Kieran Scott “Alternating Currents: Sacramental and Prophetic Imagining and Church Education” - Comments (0)
Spiritual Formation, Adult Learning, and the Entangled Trinity - Comments (0)
Why This Research is Important | Quote from Philip Sheldrake - Comments (0)
Book | Sharing Faith by Thomas Groome - Comments (1)
Book | Leadership and the New Science by Margaret Wheatley - Comments (1)
Searching for a way out of hell: mental complexity, wellbeing, and Bob’s Big Idea : RSA blogs - Comments (1)
George Herbert Mead | Me and I - Comments (0)
Tisdell on Whiteness - Comments (0)
Book | Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education by Elizabeth Tisdell - Comments (0)
Book | Learning as Transformation by Jack Mezirow and Associates - Comments (1)

Animation

Failure to Launch | A Super Short Film - Comments (0)
This, That, and Paradox | A Simple Introduction to Communicative Rationality - Comments (7)
My Life Verse Visualized | Philippians 1:9-11 - Comments (0)
Completed Animation Project for Jeannine Brown - Comments (0)
The Fusion of Horizons | An Animated Visualization - Comments (0)
The Temples of Israel Size Comparison - Comments (1)
Your Brain and a PhD - Comments (0)
An Animated Reading of Mark 4:1-20 | The Parable of the Sower and the Four Soils - Comments (0)
A Blast from the Past - Comments (0)
Day Off Doodle #animation - Comments (2)

Art

Morgan Freeman Caricature - Comments (0)
Mountain Lion and the Gods - Comments (0)
Remembering Good Fridays - Comments (0)
Failure to Launch | A Super Short Film - Comments (0)
Caricature of Princess Leia and Han Solo - Comments (0)
Would you Be Willing to Make a One Time Donation to Help this Project? - Comments (0)
Obama Caricature - Comments (1)
Live Painting, Paul Oman, and Drawn to the Light - Comments (0)
Another Meditation on Standing Rock - Comments (0)
Join the Kickstarter and Help Make the Narrative Lectionary Painting Project Happen! - Comments (0)

Bible

The Good Life: Beauty - Comments (0)
A Rebuttal to My Confessions of a Suburban Pastor - Comments (8)
Confessions of a Suburban Pastor - Comments (3)
So, Who’s Burden Should I Bear? | A Devo on Galatians 6:1-10 - Comments (0)
Flesh and Fruit | A Devo on Galatians 5:16-26 - Comments (0)
Freedom to Serve | A Devo on Galatians 5:2-15 - Comments (0)
A Visual Commentary on Galatians 3:1-29 from the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (1)
A Visual Meditation on Galatians 2:8-10 - Comments (0)
The Law and the Promise | Thinking Through Galatians 3 - Comments (0)
Proclaiming and Teaching with Boldness | A Devo on Acts 28:28-31 - Comments (0)

Bible Doodle

A Visual Commentary on Galatians 3:1-29 from the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (1)
A Visual Commentary on Galatians 1:13-17, 2:11-21 from the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (0)
A Visual Meditation on Colossians 2:6-7 - Comments (0)
A Visual Guide to the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:1, 11-32 - Comments (0)
A Visual Commentary on Luke 9:21-45 | The Transfiguration - Comments (2)
Thanksgiving, Daniel, and Empire - Comments (0)
Feeling Trapped? | Preparing to Preach Daniel and Advent 1 - Comments (1)
A Visual Guide to Joseph’s Story from the Narrative Lectionary Year 3 - Comments (0)
A Visual Guide to Abraham’s Story in Genesis 12-15 - Comments (0)
My Life Verse Visualized | Philippians 1:9-11 - Comments (0)

Books

Elizabeth Johnson and The Strength of Her Witness | Notes from the Ministerium - Comments (1)
A Sketch of an article by Kieran Scott “Alternating Currents: Sacramental and Prophetic Imagining and Church Education” - Comments (0)
Dallas Willard on the Bible and the Word of God - Comments (0)
Telling the Truth by Frederick Buechner - Comments (0)
Book | The Mission Table: Renewing Congregation & Community by Stephen P. Bouman - Comments (0)
Book Review | The Agile Church: Spirit-Led Innovation in an Uncertain Age by Dwight Zscheile - Comments (1)
Embodied Theology - Comments (0)
Book | The Social God and the Relational Self by Stanley Grenz - Comments (0)
Baptized We Live by Daniel Erlander - Comments (0)
Article | Filling the Governance Gap by Allan Wallis - Comments (0)

Books - Adult Learning

A Sketch of an article by Kieran Scott “Alternating Currents: Sacramental and Prophetic Imagining and Church Education” - Comments (0)
Book | The Practice of Communicative Theology by Scharer and Hilberath - Comments (0)
Book | The Evolving Self by Robert Kegan - Comments (1)
Book | Stages of Faith by James Fowler - Comments (3)
Book | Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education by Elizabeth Tisdell - Comments (0)
Book | Learning as Transformation by Jack Mezirow and Associates - Comments (1)
Book | In Over Our Heads by Robert Kegan - Comments (7)

Books - Epistemology/Hermeneutics

Book | In Search of Self edited by van Huyssteen and Wiebe - Comments (2)
Book | Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics by Jean Grondin - Comments (1)
Putting Willard on the Raft | A Reflection on Gary Black’s book The Theology of Dallas Willard - Comments (3)
Book | A Secular Age by Charles Taylor - Comments (5)
Book | Converging on Culture - Comments (1)
Book | The Postmodern Turn by Steven Best and Douglas Kellner - Comments (1)
Book | Translating the Message by Lamin Sanneh - Comments (1)
Book | Practicing Gospel by Edward Farley - Comments (2)
Paper | A Presentation on Hans-Georg Gadamer - Comments (4)
Book | Theories of Culture by Kathryn Tanner - Comments (2)

Books - Missional Church

Elizabeth Johnson and The Strength of Her Witness | Notes from the Ministerium - Comments (1)
Book | The Mission Table: Renewing Congregation & Community by Stephen P. Bouman - Comments (0)
Book Review | The Agile Church: Spirit-Led Innovation in an Uncertain Age by Dwight Zscheile - Comments (1)
Book | The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin - Comments (0)
Book | Foolishness to the Greeks by Lesslie Newbigin - Comments (1)
Book | Christianity After Religion by Diana Butler Bass - Comments (3)
Book | Missional Map-Making by Alan Roxburgh - Comments (0)
Book | Testing the Spirits edited by Patrick Keifert - Comments (3)
Book | Critical Social Theory by Gary Simpson - Comments (5)
Book | The Witness of God by John G. Flett - Comments (0)

Books - Organizational Theory

Book | Leadership and the New Science by Margaret Wheatley - Comments (1)

Books - Preaching

Telling the Truth by Frederick Buechner - Comments (0)

Books - Religious Education

Book | Stages of Faith by James Fowler - Comments (3)
Book | Christian Conversion by Walter Conn - Comments (3)
Book | Sharing Faith by Thomas Groome - Comments (1)

Books - Spirituality

Dallas Willard on the Bible and the Word of God - Comments (0)
Embodied Theology - Comments (0)
Book | The Social God and the Relational Self by Stanley Grenz - Comments (0)
Book | In Search of Self edited by van Huyssteen and Wiebe - Comments (2)
Book | Minding the Spirit edited by Elizabeth Dreyer and Mark Burrows - Comments (0)
Article | Near-Death Experiences and Spirituality by Greyson - Comments (0)
Book | Christianity After Religion by Diana Butler Bass - Comments (3)
Article | Spiritual Formation Agenda by Richard Foster - Comments (0)
Putting Willard on the Raft | A Reflection on Gary Black’s book The Theology of Dallas Willard - Comments (3)
Book | After Heaven by Robert Wuthnow - Comments (0)

Books - Suburban Studies

Article | Filling the Governance Gap by Allan Wallis - Comments (0)
Book | Metropolitics by Myron Orfield - Comments (0)
Book | Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth Jackson - Comments (0)
Book | Building Suburbia by Dolores Hayden - Comments (0)
Book | Beorgeois Utopias by Robert Fishman - Comments (1)
Book | Souls of the City by Etan Diamond - Comments (1)
Book | The Suburban Church by Arthur H. DeKruyter - Comments (0)
Book | Death by Suburb by David Goetz - Comments (1)
Book | How Cities Work by Alex Marshall - Comments (1)
Book | Suburban Nation by Andres Duany - Comments (0)

Books - Trinity

Book | The Social God and the Relational Self by Stanley Grenz - Comments (0)
Book | The Practice of Communicative Theology by Scharer and Hilberath - Comments (0)
Book | The Entangled Trinity by Ernest Simmons - Comments (4)
Article | A Trinitarian Perspective on Christian Spirituality by Mark McIntosh - Comments (0)
Book | The Trinity and an Entangled World edited by John Polkinghorne - Comments (5)
Article | Augustine in Contemporary Trinitarian Theology by Michel Barnes - Comments (0)
Book | God the Spirit by Michael Welker - Comments (2)
Book | The Quest for the Trinity by Stephen R. Holmes - Comments (0)
Edmund Hill’s Translation of Augustine’s De Trinitate - Comments (1)
Book | Beyond Foundationalism by Stanley Grenz and John Franke - Comments (3)

Building Community

Spiritual Formation, Adult Learning, and the Entangled Trinity - Comments (0)
Book | The Practice of Communicative Theology by Scharer and Hilberath - Comments (0)

Candidacy

Installing Pastor 2.0 - Comments (0)
The Bishop is Installing Me - Comments (0)
TRP Passed! - Comments (0)
WordPress and Sketchbook – doesn’t every doctoral student use these? - Comments (0)
Project Updates - Comments (0)
My Theological Review Panel Happened - Comments (0)
I Just Got Bish’d - Comments (0)
Officially Accepted - Comments (0)
Psych Evaluation Forms Complete - Comments (0)
Initial Interview - Comments (0)

Caricatures

Morgan Freeman Caricature - Comments (0)
Caricature of Princess Leia and Han Solo - Comments (0)
Obama Caricature - Comments (1)
Caricature of Castro - Comments (0)
J. R. R. Tolkien Caricature - Comments (0)
Usain Bolt Caricature #Rio2016 - Comments (0)
Simone Biles Gold - Comments (1)
Day Off Doodle | Spock Star Trek Beyond - Comments (0)
Caricature of Murdoch - Comments (0)
Caricature of Longmire and Standing Bear - Comments (0)

character design

lent + catechism + cartoonist - Comments (0)
New Contract For Children’s Illustrations - Comments (0)
Some Recent Artwork - Comments (0)

Children's Books

Latest Batch of Children’s Illustration - Comments (0)
Book Cover Illustration - Comments (0)
More work for Weekly Reader - Comments (1)
Cover Art for Weekly Reader News - Comments (2)
Some Recent Artwork - Comments (0)
Gunther’s Great Campaign Released! - Comments (0)
More Work for Weekly Reader - Comments (0)

Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self

Tending the Generation Gap in Suburban Congregations - Comments (0)
Spiritual Formation, Adult Learning, and the Entangled Trinity - Comments (0)
Book | In Search of Self edited by van Huyssteen and Wiebe - Comments (2)
The Holy Spirit, Twitter, and Practical Wisdom - Comments (2)
Article | Near-Death Experiences and Spirituality by Greyson - Comments (0)
Experiencing the Disruptive Nature of the Spirit - Comments (3)
Book | The Evolving Self by Robert Kegan - Comments (1)
On Ivan Illich in Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age - Comments (0)
Pannenberg’s Article on Personhood translated by Fred Sanders - Comments (0)
Book | A Secular Age by Charles Taylor - Comments (5)

Conversations

This, That, and Paradox | A Simple Introduction to Communicative Rationality - Comments (7)
Living with Asperger’s Syndrome (ASD) - Comments (0)
Living with Disagreement | Mapping Out the Conversation - Comments (2)
The Power of Vulnerability - Comments (1)
Living with Disagreement | An Open Invitation to Discuss a Difficult Topic - Comments (14)

Devos

The Good Life: Beauty - Comments (0)
A Rebuttal to My Confessions of a Suburban Pastor - Comments (8)
Confessions of a Suburban Pastor - Comments (3)
So, Who’s Burden Should I Bear? | A Devo on Galatians 6:1-10 - Comments (0)
Flesh and Fruit | A Devo on Galatians 5:16-26 - Comments (0)
Freedom to Serve | A Devo on Galatians 5:2-15 - Comments (0)
A Visual Meditation on Galatians 2:8-10 - Comments (0)
The Law and the Promise | Thinking Through Galatians 3 - Comments (0)
Proclaiming and Teaching with Boldness | A Devo on Acts 28:28-31 - Comments (0)
Three Weeks in Galatians | What are the Marks of a Jesus-Follower? - Comments (0)

Dissertation

The Doodled Dissertation - Comments (3)
It is Phinally PhinisheD, and the Geese Don’t Care - Comments (2)
Trinity Sunday - Comments (4)
The Dissertation is Bound and on the Shelf - Comments (0)
Another Imposter Syndrome Moment from My Dissertation Defense #phdchat - Comments (0)
The Final Post for Deep in the Burbs - Comments (0)
My Dissertation Blunder and the Geek Bliss Fix - Comments (0)
It is PhinisheD - Comments (2)
Tomorrow I Defend… - Comments (0)
The Digital Version of the Dissertation is Finished - Comments (0)

Fiction

A Reader’s Response to Pleroma - Comments (0)
A Big Step for the Nectar Trilogy - Comments (0)
A Reader’s Response to Pleroma - Comments (0)
Thoughts about Chuck - Comments (0)

fun stuff

A Blast from the Past - Comments (0)
iPad Sketches of Stations of the Cross used in California Prayer Chapel - Comments (0)
Another Example of the Virtual Body of Christ - Comments (0)
Four Rules for Making Star Wars Great - Comments (0)
Strange Signs - Comments (0)
VBS: The Movie - Comments (0)
Break of Reality at Coon Rapids High School - Comments (0)
The Frozen Chozen | Bring on Passover! - Comments (0)
Symphonic Rock 4 at Anoka High School….Rocks! - Comments (0)
Family Sing Along…On Stage! - Comments (0)

Haiti

Painting a Mural in Haiti - Comments (0)
Haiti Day 7: It is Finished - Comments (0)
Haiti Day 6: Best Day Ever and A Swift Kick to the Head - Comments (1)
Hait Day 5: Will the Real Power Please Stand - Comments (3)
Haiti Day 4: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Mural - Comments (0)
Haiti Day 3: Sunday on the Mountain Top - Comments (0)
Haiti, Heaven, and Hell - Comments (0)
Haiti Day 1 and 2 - Comments (0)
Art and Haiti - Comments (0)

How Do I Fit Project

Another Own Your Faith Video - Comments (0)
Turning the Page in the High School Project - Comments (0)
How Do I Fit Project Website - Comments (1)
Trying to Connect with Youth in a Busy World - Comments (0)
How Do We Fit Project - Comments (0)

How Do We Think?

Your Brain and a PhD - Comments (0)
Holy Roadblocks and the Intelligence of Emotions - Comments (0)
Finding the Third Way | A Postfoundational Hope for Peace - Comments (0)
The Holy Spirit, Twitter, and Practical Wisdom - Comments (2)
Book | The Entangled Trinity by Ernest Simmons - Comments (4)
Book | The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin - Comments (0)
Book | Foolishness to the Greeks by Lesslie Newbigin - Comments (1)
Book | Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics by Jean Grondin - Comments (1)
Putting Willard on the Raft | A Reflection on Gary Black’s book The Theology of Dallas Willard - Comments (3)
A Short, Animated Introduction to the Social Trinity - Comments (4)

Illustration

The Characters of Wisdom - Comments (0)
Another Piggification - Comments (0)
Two More Pig-Tures - Comments (1)
My First Oil Painting in Years - Comments (0)
Eating up the Books - Comments (0)
Wind and Waves Illustration in #ProCreate on the #iPad - Comments (0)
A Blast from the Past - Comments (0)
An animation for Advent 3 | Joy Comes in the Morning | Isaiah 55 - Comments (0)
Day Off Doodle | Tom Welling as Smallville “Superman” (almost) - Comments (0)
Dragon Illustration done in ProCreate on the iPad - Comments (0)

Law and Gospel

A Visual Commentary on Galatians 3:1-29 from the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (1)
The Law and the Promise | Thinking Through Galatians 3 - Comments (0)
A Visual Commentary on Galatians 1:13-17, 2:11-21 from the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (0)
Thanksgiving, Daniel, and Empire - Comments (0)
Law and Gospel #visualnotes - Comments (1)
The Dark Side of Grace - Comments (0)
Theology of the Cross - Comments (4)
What is Your Picture of the Gospel? - Comments (1)
The Key of Our Calling | A Sermon on Vocation from Deuteronomy 5:1-21; 6:4-8 in the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (1)
Law, Gospel, Futurity, and Carrots - Comments (2)

Lecture Notes

The First and Second Use of the Law #visualnotes - Comments (0)
Law and Gospel with Keifert and Jacobson | Session One #visualnotes - Comments (0)
Brian McLaren at MAS Assembly part 2 - Comments (0)
Brian McLaren at the Minneapolis Area Synod Assembly - Comments (1)
Willie Jennings at the UMW-AAR Regional Conference - Comments (0)
Class Notes | The Hermeneutics of Leading in Mission - Comments (0)
Congregational Leadership Class Notes - Comments (0)
Two Fantastic Speakers at the Synod Assembly - Comments (0)
The Congregation | Class Notes | May 8 - Comments (0)
Congregation | Class Notes | May 1 - Comments (0)

Live Art

A Nail-biting Artist-Pastor-Teacher Moment for Pentecost - Comments (0)
Good Friday Painting Video - Comments (0)
It is Finished | The Good Friday Painting and Music Experience is Over - Comments (6)
Painting a Mural in Haiti - Comments (0)
Live Art and Scripture Community Event at Christ the King - Comments (0)
iPad Sketches of Stations of the Cross used in California Prayer Chapel - Comments (0)
Live Drawings for Stations of the Cross 2013 - Comments (1)
Stations of the Cross - Comments (3)

Living with Asperger's Syndrome

Living with Asperger’s Syndrome (ASD) - Comments (0)

Living with Disagreement

This, That, and Paradox | A Simple Introduction to Communicative Rationality - Comments (7)
Living with Disagreement | Mapping Out the Conversation - Comments (2)
The Power of Vulnerability - Comments (1)
Living with Disagreement | An Open Invitation to Discuss a Difficult Topic - Comments (14)

ministry

A Word to the White Preacher - Comments (0)
Can I Get a Witness at the Minneapolis Area Synod Assembly #MASassembly - Comments (0)
Reflections on the Experimental Beginnings Class - Comments (17)
The Power of the Frame | How Does this Photo Represent Ferguson? - Comments (0)
Love One Another, One Sandwich at a Time - Comments (0)
Can You Help Name This Big Bible Event? - Comments (4)
One Week Left, Then it’s Crank Up the Teaching Machine! - Comments (0)
Rethinking Faith Formation Visual Notes - Comments (1)
My Reflections on “The Decision” at Grace - Comments (1)
Notes from the Minneapolis Area Synod Assembly 2014 - Comments (0)

Narrative Lectionary Painting Project

Would you Be Willing to Make a One Time Donation to Help this Project? - Comments (0)
Live Painting, Paul Oman, and Drawn to the Light - Comments (0)
Join the Kickstarter and Help Make the Narrative Lectionary Painting Project Happen! - Comments (0)
Behind the Scenes at the Narrative Lectionary Painting Project - Comments (0)
Why I Left Facebook, and Why I’m Back - Comments (8)

News

Apologies for the Downed Site - Comments (0)
Give the Gift of Learning this Christmas - Comments (0)
Congregation | Class Notes | May 1 - Comments (0)
The Congregation | Class Notes | April 17 - Comments (0)
The Congregation | Class Notes | April 10 - Comments (0)
The Congregation | Class Notes | April 3 | Critical Social Theory - Comments (0)
The Congregation | Class Notes | March 27 | Miroslav Volf - Comments (0)
Congregation Class Notes | March 13 - Comments (0)
The Congregation | Class Notes | February 27 | Church Future Finder - Comments (0)
A Visual Representation of the Book To Understand God Truly by David Kelsey - Comments (0)

Non-Fiction

Short, Daily Devotionals for Youth and Families - Comments (0)
Life of Jesus Class Finished - Comments (0)
Upon Bin Laden’s Demise - Comments (0)
Sex, Drugs, and Social Status - Comments (0)

Painter

My Graduate Micki - Comments (0)
Felt Like Painting Tonight - Comments (1)

Personal Journal

It is Phinally PhinisheD, and the Geese Don’t Care - Comments (2)
Trinity Sunday - Comments (4)
Another Imposter Syndrome Moment from My Dissertation Defense #phdchat - Comments (0)
The Final Post for Deep in the Burbs - Comments (0)
My Dissertation Blunder and the Geek Bliss Fix - Comments (0)
It is PhinisheD - Comments (2)
Tomorrow I Defend… - Comments (0)
The PTSD of the PhD - Comments (0)
Next Stop…Defense! - Comments (0)
Dissertation Update | Passable or Publishable? - Comments (0)

Personal Updates

First Morning in a New House - Comments (1)
Last Day in our House - Comments (1)
A Graceful Farewell - Comments (5)
Grace, Easter, and the Final Week - Comments (3)
The Cloud is Moving…to Eagan - Comments (3)
Get FREE Stuff! Celebrating 400 Subscribers - Comments (0)
A Wonderful Week of Artheology - Comments (0)
Thomason Christmas Letter 2016 - Comments (0)
Broken and Repaired - Comments (0)
A Behind the Scenes Look at Job Week 2: How to Speak in Times of Suffering - Comments (0)

Projects

A Landscape of the Trinity: An Art Project - Comments (0)
Promo Video for Grace Children and Youth Ministry Fair - Comments (0)
Latest Batch of Children’s Illustration - Comments (0)
Project Updates - Comments (0)
Some Recent Artwork - Comments (0)

Public Speaking

How to Use Word and PowerPoint to Craft a Visually-Oriented Sermon Manuscript - Comments (0)
One Week Left, Then it’s Crank Up the Teaching Machine! - Comments (0)
Two Sermons in Four Days - Comments (0)
Truckin’ to Heaven - Comments (0)
Look What Dad Brought to Coffee | Coon Rapids Class of 1986 - Comments (0)
Not Quite 40 days | Confessions of a Whiny Preacher - Comments (1)
Presentation on Theories of Culture by Kathryn Tanner - Comments (1)
Sermons Online - Comments (0)
Pictures of my Brain - Comments (0)
Weekend Review - Comments (0)

Questions from the Basket...

Questions from the Basket… - Comments (0)

Religious Education

Day One of the Religious Educators Association Conference #REA2016 - Comments (0)
Spiritual Formation, Adult Learning, and the Entangled Trinity - Comments (0)
The Virtual Body of Christ | A Missional Imagination for Community - Comments (1)
Book | The Practice of Communicative Theology by Scharer and Hilberath - Comments (0)
Book | Stages of Faith by James Fowler - Comments (3)
Book | Sharing Faith by Thomas Groome - Comments (1)
My Vocation as a Theologian - Comments (0)

Research Findings

Theory Matters: Bringing Tanner, Taylor, Kegan, and Grenz into Conversation with the Deep in the Burbs Data - Comments (0)
What Did We Learn About Spiritual Formation? - Comments (0)
An Increased Awareness and Understanding - Comments (0)

Research Methods

The Research Project Design - Comments (0)
Why Did I Choose Participatory Action Research (PAR)? - Comments (0)
Getting Back to the Data - Comments (0)
A Thick Description of the Deep in the Burbs Research Project - Comments (0)
A Visual Guide to Making Sense out of the Deep in the Burbs Project - Comments (0)
Phenomenology, Dallas Willard, and Dwelling in the Word - Comments (0)
Two Weeks Left in Phase Two - Comments (0)

Sermon Sketchbook

Thankful for Family - Comments (0)
I Need Your Help to Preach on Family - Comments (9)
Preparing for The Good Life - Comments (1)
Some Drawings to Illustrate the Easter Vigil - Comments (5)
Observations from Luke 4:16-30 - Comments (2)
A Visual Guide to Isaiah 6:1-8 | Narrative Lectionary - Comments (0)
Why Should We Give? | A Section of the Sermon I Had to Cut for Time - Comments (2)
A Behind the Scenes Look at Job Week 2: How to Speak in Times of Suffering - Comments (0)
So, Why Do Good People Suffer? Getting Ready to Preach through Job - Comments (2)
How to Create a Visual Sermon Using ProCreate and Photoshop - Comments (0)

Sermons

Thankful for Family - Comments (0)
I Need Your Help to Preach on Family - Comments (9)
Preparing for The Good Life - Comments (1)
Do Something to Bless Others | A Sermon on Galatians 3:1-9, 23-29 - Comments (0)
Do Something to Embrace Life | A Sermon on Galatians 1:13-14, 2:11-21 - Comments (0)
My Last Sermon at Grace | Easter Vigil 2017 - Comments (0)
Some Drawings to Illustrate the Easter Vigil - Comments (5)
Salvation Has Come | A Sermon on Luke 18:31-19:10 - Comments (0)
…a great chasm… | A Sermon on Lazarus and the Rich Man from Luke 16:19-31 - Comments (0)
Are You Listening? | A Sermon on Luke 10:25-42 from the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (0)

sermons2009

A Sermon on Hebrews 3 - Comments (0)
Message from Joshua 2 – God Loves Prostitutes - Comments (0)
A Message on Psalm 131 - Comments (0)

sermons2010

Easter Vigil Message - Comments (0)
The Gospel of Grace | A Sermon on 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 - Comments (0)

sermons2011

Four Sermons from the Revised Common Lectionary Year A in the Gospel of Matthew - Comments (0)
The Christmas Promise – A Sermon for Christmas Eve - Comments (0)
Blue Prayer for Advent – A Sermon for Advent 1 - Comments (0)
Worship is Our Response | A Sermon on Matthew 22:15-22 - Comments (0)
Sermon on Humility from Matthew 21:23-32 and Philippians 2:1-13 - Comments (2)
Confront in Love | A Sermon on Matthew 18:15-20 - Comments (0)
Faith in Unexpected Places | A Sermon on Matthew 14:22-33 - Comments (0)
Facing Storms – A Sermon on Matthew 14:22-33 - Comments (5)
God Breathes – A Sermon for Pentecost - Comments (0)
Shepherd of Hope | A Sermon on 1 Peter 2:19-25 - Comments (0)

sermons2012

The Glory of Christmas | A Sermon on Christmas Morning | Luke 2:8-20 - Comments (0)
Return to Me | A Sermon on Joel 2:12-12, 28-29 | Advent 2 - Comments (0)
Sermon on Daniel in the Lions Den | Daniel 6:6-27 | Advent 1 | #hate2wait - Comments (0)
Ruined and Reconciled: A Sermon on Isaiah 6:1-8 - Comments (0)
Sermon on The Golden Calf – Exodus 32:1-14 - Comments (0)
Sermon on Elijah and the Widow | 1 Kings 17:1-16 | Faith in Famine - Comments (0)
Stand Strong in Everyday Struggles – A Sermon on the Armor of God - Comments (1)
Breaking Down Walls – Sermon on Ephesians 2:11-22 - Comments (2)
Stormy Weather | A Sermon on Mark 4:35-41 - Comments (0)
Sermon Manuscript – Meeting God in Ordinary Spaces - Comments (0)

sermons2013

Wise men, Really? | A Sermon for Christmas Morning from Matthew 2:1-12 - Comments (0)
Home for Christmas | A Sermon for Advent 3 | Isaiah 55 - Comments (0)
Advent 1 | Firm in Your Faith | A Sermon from Daniel 3:1, 8-30 - Comments (0)
Let Justice Roll Down Like Water | A Sermon from Amos 5:21-24 - Comments (0)
When God is Silent | A Sermon on 1 Kings 19:1-18 - Comments (0)
Don’t Label Me | A Sermon on 1 Samuel 16:1-13 - Comments (0)
Discerning the Voice of God | The Call of Samuel in 1 Samuel 3:1-21 - Comments (0)
Practicing Daily Bread | A Sermon about Manna from Exodus 16:1-18 - Comments (0)
Stand Strong in the Lord | A Sermon on Ephesians 6:10-20 - Comments (0)
Walking Worthy of the Calling | A Sermon on Ephesians 4:1-16 - Comments (0)

sermons2014

A Light for All | A Sermon for Advent 3 from Isaiah 42:1-9 and Matthew 12:15-21 - Comments (0)
Wealth, Social Class, and the Kingdom of Heaven | A Visual Sermon from Matthew 25:31-46 - Comments (0)
Mirror, Mirror | A Sermon on 2 Samuel 12:1-9 and Psalm 51:1-9 - Comments (0)
Framing the Promise | A Sermon on the Ten Commandments in Exodus 19:4-7; 20:1-17 - Comments (2)
Sermon Series on the Ten Commandments - Comments (3)
Blessed to Be a Blessing | A Sermon on Genesis 12:1-9 - Comments (0)
Sign of the Covenant | A Sermon on the flood of Genesis 6 – 9 - Comments (0)
Ruth: The Making of a Hero | A Sermon on Ruth 3-4 - Comments (0)
Hope in a Time of Chaos | A Sermon from Ruth 1:1-22 - Comments (0)
The One Talent Man | A Sermon on Matthew 25:14-30 - Comments (1)

sermons2015

Managing Fear and Doubt | A Sermon for Advent 4 from Luke 1:5-25, 67-80 - Comments (1)
Waiting on God’s Word | A Sermon for Advent 1 from 2 Kings - Comments (0)
The King Who Serves Life | A Sermon on Isaiah 5:1-7; 11:1-5 - Comments (0)
Service: The Antidote for Greed | A Sermon from the Narrative Lectionary on 1 Kings 12 - Comments (1)
A Call to Friendship | A Sermon on Vocation from Ruth 1:1-17 - Comments (0)
The Key of Our Calling | A Sermon on Vocation from Deuteronomy 5:1-21; 6:4-8 in the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (1)
What’s Your Name? | A Sermon from the Narrative Lectionary on Genesis 32:22-30 - Comments (0)
What’s the Big Deal about Church? | A Sermon on #missional church - Comments (0)
Does Prayer Make a Difference? | A Sermon - Comments (0)
Why Does God Allow Suffering? | A Sermon - Comments (0)

sermons2016

Open Hearts, Liberating Spirit | A Sermon from Joel 2 for Advent 2 - Comments (0)
Hope in the Midst of Beasts | A Sermon from Daniel for Advent 1 - Comments (0)
The Making of a Servant | A Narrative Lectionary Sermon from Isaiah 6:1-8 - Comments (0)
How Much Should We Give? | A Sermon on Giving - Comments (0)
Gratitude, Giving, and the Essence of the Church - Comments (0)
God’s Promise in Broken Families | A Sermon from Genesis 50:15-20 - Comments (0)
Count the Stars | A Sermon from Genesis 15:1-6 - Comments (0)
Honest to God | A Sermon on Job 42:7 - Comments (0)
How Does Pain Help Spiritual Growth? | A Sermon from Job 19:25 - Comments (0)
How to Speak in Times of Suffering | A Sermon from Job - Comments (0)

sermons2017

Do Something to Bless Others | A Sermon on Galatians 3:1-9, 23-29 - Comments (0)
Do Something to Embrace Life | A Sermon on Galatians 1:13-14, 2:11-21 - Comments (0)
My Last Sermon at Grace | Easter Vigil 2017 - Comments (0)
Salvation Has Come | A Sermon on Luke 18:31-19:10 - Comments (0)
…a great chasm… | A Sermon on Lazarus and the Rich Man from Luke 16:19-31 - Comments (0)
Are You Listening? | A Sermon on Luke 10:25-42 from the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (0)
Where Glory Dwells | A Sermon on the Transfiguration from Luke 9:28-45 - Comments (1)
Who is at the Table? | A Sermon from Luke 7:36-50 - Comments (2)
Faith and Compassion | A Sermon on Luke 7:1-17 from the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (0)
Good News, Bad News | A Sermon on Luke 4:16-30 - Comments (3)

Sketches

Another Meditation on Standing Rock - Comments (0)
A Visual Guide to Joseph’s Story from the Narrative Lectionary Year 3 - Comments (0)
One Said Thank You | A Sketch for Thanksgiving from Luke 17:11-17 - Comments (0)
Law, Gospel, Futurity, and Carrots - Comments (2)
Sketch in Procreate app on iPad - Comments (0)
Happy Willow | Another Day Off Doodle - Comments (0)
Day Off Doodle #animation - Comments (2)
Dragon Sketch Set to Andy McKee - Comments (0)
Trinity Knot - Comments (0)
Sketches from my Moleskine - Comments (0)

Spiritual Formation

A Word to the White Preacher - Comments (0)
What is Your Image of God? - Comments (0)
Changing from the Bottom Up - Comments (1)
Animation, Renovare, Joe Davis and the Mid-Faith Crisis - Comments (0)
Connecting to Creation in Suburbia - Comments (0)
Beyond Words | A Reflection on Dallas Willard - Comments (1)
How Do You Manage Multiple Passions? - Comments (2)
What is Conversion? - Comments (0)
Spirituality and Spiritual Formation: Defining Terms - Comments (0)
Confirmation 2016 - Comments (0)

Spirituality in Adult Learning

Holy Roadblocks and the Intelligence of Emotions - Comments (0)
Spiritual Formation, Adult Learning, and the Entangled Trinity - Comments (0)
Life on the Möbius Strip | A Video by Parker Palmer - Comments (0)

Suburban Studies

Lutherans in the Suburbs - Comments (0)
New Study Shows Major Changes Coming to the Twin Cities Suburbs - Comments (1)
The Geese are Back | An Easter Meditation on Life in the Suburbs - Comments (1)
Experiencing the Disruptive Nature of the Spirit - Comments (3)
The Kingdom of Heaven, Theories of Culture, and the Missional Church - Comments (0)
Book | Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth Jackson - Comments (0)
Book | Building Suburbia by Dolores Hayden - Comments (0)
Book | Beorgeois Utopias by Robert Fishman - Comments (1)
Book | Souls of the City by Etan Diamond - Comments (1)
Book | The Suburban Church by Arthur H. DeKruyter - Comments (0)

Technique

How to Use iPad Procreate with Toon Boom Harmony to Make Simple Animation Interesting - Comments (0)
How to Create a Visual Sermon Using ProCreate and Photoshop - Comments (0)
An Animated Reading of Mark 4:1-20 | The Parable of the Sower and the Four Soils - Comments (0)
Fun with Procreate and Animation Creator HD on the iPad - Comments (0)
Dragon Sketch Set to Andy McKee - Comments (0)
My First Oil Painting in Years - Comments (0)
Experimenting with Corel Painter X3 - Comments (0)
Wind and Waves Illustration in #ProCreate on the #iPad - Comments (0)
A Drawing with the Wacom Intuous Creative Stylus on my iPad - Comments (0)
Comparing Animation Apps for the iPad 2 - Comments (1)

Technology for Academics

My Dissertation Blunder and the Geek Bliss Fix - Comments (0)
The Digital Version of the Dissertation is Finished - Comments (0)
How Scrivener is Helping Me Rebuild My Dissertation - Comments (0)
My New Academic Tool – The iPad - Comments (0)

The Journey

The Journey’s End | A Grand Spiritual Adventure through Suburban Time and Space - Comments (1)
Putting the PhD into Practice | Another Video about the Social Trinity - Comments (1)
A Spiritual GPS - Comments (0)
Are the Spiritual Habits, and The Journey, a Form of Narcissism? - Comments (0)
The Paradox of Spiritual Formation - Comments (0)
A Real Life Encounter with the First Question of The Journey - Comments (0)

The Missional Church

Nondual Thinking and the Missional Church - Comments (1)
Visual Notes from the Missional Leadership D.Min. Course - Comments (0)
Changing from the Bottom Up - Comments (1)
Rethinking the Great Commission - Comments (1)
What’s the Big Deal about Church? | A Sermon on #missional church - Comments (0)
Messy Life Together | A #Missional Sketch of Matthew 28:16-20 - Comments (1)
Heaven and Earth - Comments (0)
Another PhD Candidate Seeking Missional Spirituality - Comments (0)
What is the Missional Church? - Comments (0)
The Virtual Body of Christ | A Missional Imagination for Community - Comments (1)

The Trinity

Entangled in the Trinity - Comments (0)
Putting the PhD into Practice | Another Video about the Social Trinity - Comments (1)
Trinity Knot - Comments (0)
The Trinity and the Bible - Comments (0)
Love Is What Is by Richard Rohr - Comments (0)
A Trinitarian Prayer - Comments (0)
Three Pictures of God - Comments (0)
The Trinity Frame - Comments (0)
Spiritual Formation, Adult Learning, and the Entangled Trinity - Comments (0)
Finding the Third Way | A Postfoundational Hope for Peace - Comments (0)

Theology

A Visual Commentary on Galatians 3:1-29 from the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (1)
The Law and the Promise | Thinking Through Galatians 3 - Comments (0)
A Visual Commentary on Galatians 1:13-17, 2:11-21 from the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (0)
The Holy Spirit Described by the Bible Project - Comments (0)
Tim and Jon Discuss the Spirit - Comments (0)
Entangled in the Trinity - Comments (0)
Nondual Thinking and the Missional Church - Comments (1)
Visual Notes from the Missional Leadership D.Min. Course - Comments (0)
Changing from the Bottom Up - Comments (1)
It is Hard to Not Be Racist - Comments (0)

Theories of Adult Learning

Spiritual Formation, Adult Learning, and the Entangled Trinity - Comments (0)
Book | The Practice of Communicative Theology by Scharer and Hilberath - Comments (0)
Book | The Evolving Self by Robert Kegan - Comments (1)

Thketches

This, That, and Paradox | A Simple Introduction to Communicative Rationality - Comments (7)
Your Brain and a PhD - Comments (0)
Wealth, Social Class, and the Kingdom of Heaven | A Visual Sermon from Matthew 25:31-46 - Comments (0)
An Animated 1 Corinthians 12 | We are the Body of Christ - Comments (0)
Some Animation about the Trinity for the Deep in the Burbs Project - Comments (0)
The Evolution of My Worldview - Comments (0)
The Great Commission | Matthew 28:16-20 - Comments (0)
Two Versions of God’s Redemptive Story - Comments (0)
The Vine of John 15 - Comments (0)
What is the Church? A Thketch - Comments (0)

Through the Bible in a Year

Read Through the Bible in 2017 - Comments (0)
Week 50 Day 5 – The Point of it All - Comments (0)
Week 50 Day 4 – On Your Face! - Comments (0)
Week 50 Day 3 – What’s in Your Letter? - Comments (0)
Week 50 Day 2 – No Fear! - Comments (0)
Week 50 Day 1 – Walk in the Light - Comments (0)
Week 49 Day 4 – Walk the Talk - Comments (0)
Week 49 Day 3 – Outside the Camp - Comments (0)
Week 49 Day 5 – Marching Orders - Comments (0)
Week 49 Day 2 – Tossed Salad Spirituality - Comments (0)

vlog

A Behind the Scenes Look at Job Week 2: How to Speak in Times of Suffering - Comments (0)
A Father-Son Coffee Talk about…Coffee - Comments (3)
Encouragement in Discouragement - Comments (1)

Writing

Holy Roadblocks and the Intelligence of Emotions - Comments (0)
Short, Daily Devotionals for Youth and Families - Comments (0)
Double Geek Moment | Scrivener is Amazing! - Comments (0)
Where Will I Be… - Comments (0)
Life of Jesus Class Finished - Comments (0)
Vibble Books Titles Free to Download - Comments (0)
A Reader’s Response to Pleroma - Comments (0)
A Big Step for the Nectar Trilogy - Comments (0)
A Reader’s Response to Pleroma - Comments (0)
Upon Bin Laden’s Demise - Comments (0)

Youth Ministry

Connecting to Creation in Suburbia - Comments (0)
Confirmation 2016 - Comments (0)
Celebrating Our Graduates This Morning…and Being a Little Nostalgic - Comments (0)
Own Your Faith Video Series Complete! - Comments (0)
Another Own Your Faith Video - Comments (0)
Can You Help Name This Big Bible Event? - Comments (4)
One Week Left, Then it’s Crank Up the Teaching Machine! - Comments (0)
VBS: The Movie - Comments (0)
Short, Daily Devotionals for Youth and Families - Comments (0)
Encouraged by Our High School Students, Once Again - Comments (1)

Youth News

Celebrating Our Graduates This Morning…and Being a Little Nostalgic - Comments (0)
Can You Help Name This Big Bible Event? - Comments (4)

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