by stevethomason | Nov 28, 2018 | Live Art
FEAST stands for Festival at Easter of Art, Sound, and Thanksgiving. It involves a visual art exhibition followed by a worship service and it happened last Wednesday night. Kent Henrickson, our Contemporary Worship Director at Easter, created the FEAST a dozen years...
by SteveT2018 | Nov 7, 2018 | podcast, sermons2018
This sermon happened both on All Saints Day and one week after the Synagogue Shooting in Pittsburgh. Worship is the communal practice that shapes us into particular communities, AND ALSO unites us across religious boundaries to the infinite, eternal flame of...
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by SteveT2018 | Oct 31, 2018 | Devos
Millions of children will flood the streets of our neighborhoods across the country today. It is this strange moment when we have collectively agreed that it is OK for perfect strangers to knock on our doors in masks, yell at us, demand candy, and walk away. That is...
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by SteveT2018 | Oct 25, 2018 | Theology
Reformation Sunday happens this weekend. It is the time when Lutherans tend to wear red and celebrate what a wild and outspoken monk named Martin did 501 years ago in Germany. He was willing to speak truth to power and face the consequences of doing so. We are in the...
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by SteveT2018 | Oct 24, 2018 | podcast, sermons2018
What is worship, and how is it relevant in a secular age? That is the big question for this sermon as we continue our Deep Life Series. The key texts are 1 Chronicles 16:23-31, Acts 2:43-47, and Matthew 4:8-11. Read the manuscript Talking about worship to a group of...
