by Steve Thomason | Jul 1, 2016 | Devos
Are you able to call God Father? Some people are not. Many people had horrible fathers that abused them. Many people didn’t know their fathers because they walked out. Many people associate the term father with a long, painful history of male domination and the...
by Steve Thomason | Jun 27, 2016 | Devos
We begin a four-week series on the Lord’s Prayer this weekend. Luke’s version of the prayer, in Luke 11:2-4, simply begins, “Father…” This is a relational term and opens up the outrageous possibility that the finite human is invited to...
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by Steve Thomason | Jun 13, 2016 | Devos
The nation watches in horror as families pick up the pieces in the wake of the Orlando shooting. One of the big questions buzzing around asks whether it was a hate crime against the LGBTQ community or an act of terrorism from ISIL against the USA. Either way, it is a...
by Steve Thomason | May 12, 2016 | Devos
I want to make a bold claim. You can’t be spiritual without being religious. I make this claim based upon two things. First, the term religion comes from the Latin term ligare which means connected. It is the root of the term ligament (the connective tissue in...
by Steve Thomason | Apr 25, 2016 | Devos
1 Corinthians is a letter written by the apostle Paul to a contentious people. He spends much of the letter correcting their negative and destructive behavior. Yet, here in 1 Corinthians 13, nestled in the middle of the constant correctives to chaotic Corinthians...
