by Steve Thomason | Jun 8, 2018 | Devos
The text for our worship this weekend is Acts 1:6-11. This is the first week of the Alive! Summer worship series. The guys over at The Bible Project couldn’t have had better timing. They just released the first video of a four-part series on the Book of Acts. This...
by Steve Thomason | Apr 10, 2018 | Bible
Jesus rose from the dead, spent some time hanging out with his disciples, then vanished into the clouds. What happens next? How are the disciples supposed to make sense out of his teachings and the scandal of the cross and resurrection? How are Jews and Gentiles...
by Steve Thomason | Dec 4, 2017 | Devos
The Advent Conspiracy takes an ironic turn this week. The way to conspire against consumerism, we said last week, was to “spend less.” This week we’re saying “give more.” Wait a minute. How can we give more, but spend less? I invite you...
by Steve Thomason | Jul 18, 2017 | Devos
Our series on the Good Life takes us into some dangerous territory this week. We’re going to talk about Differences. When I first saw that title I thought we were going to talk about diversity and how our differences make up the beautiful tapestry of the Body of...
by Steve Thomason | May 20, 2017 | Devos
The reading today takes us to the last words of the Apostle Paul in Acts 28:23-31. I was especially captured by the last three verses. Paul is under house arrest in Rome and able to received visitors. A group of Jews had been visiting him and he was trying to convince...