by Steve Thomason | Dec 31, 2014 | Bible, Devos
It is New year’s Eve and I’ve spent the afternoon getting reacquainted with Matthew, the author of the first Gospel. We launch into the new year this weekend and, with it, we begin our sermon series through the Gospel of Matthew following the Narrative...
by Steve Thomason | Dec 10, 2014 | Devos
A common trap for pastors is to substitute sermon preparation for devotional reading. I fall into this trap often. The current sermon I’m working on is from Isaiah 42:1-9. This passage speaks of the one upon whom God will pour the Spirit and through whom God...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 8, 2014 | Devos, sermons2014, Thketches
Listen to the sermon audio One lens through which we can look at the human condition is that of the socio-economic landscape. What did Jesus have to say about how the socio-economic classes should interact? There are basically three classes of people in the world,...
by Steve Thomason | Nov 6, 2014 | Devos
We finished up our series on the Ten Commandments in Catechism last night by talking about commandments 9 and 10. Don’t covet. It sounds pretty easy, but the truth is that these two commands run completely contrary to our American way of life. We wrote two words...
by Steve Thomason | Oct 29, 2014 | Devos
Children have a way of keeping us humble. When my son was twelve he served me well in that way. I was preaching to our small gathering of collective house churches one morning. We had just returned from a family vacation in which we had experienced, what I thought,...
