by Steve Thomason | Sep 11, 2015 | Law and Gospel, Lecture Notes
The Law and Gospel class began on Wednesday. I am the TA for this class and feel privileged to sit in with this fine group of students to hear two masters teach us. I intend to post my visual notes each week. (I’ll be out of town next...
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 9, 2014 | sermons2014
Narrative Lectionary Text: Exodus 19:4-7; 20:1-17 Let’s start off with a fun little experiment. If you have a pencil and a piece of paper, maybe the back of your bulletin, you can write this down. If not, just try to remember. I want you to think of the first...
by Steve Thomason | Sep 30, 2014 | sermons2014
This weekend I will be preaching Exodus 19:3-7; 20:1-17 from the Narrative Lectionary. This is the first giving of the Ten Commandments, but I don’t really want to focus as much on the Ten Commandments (20:1-17) as I do on the framing of the commandments in...
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...
