Pastor Thom Fowler

Blogs

More than Useless

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My Word…Produces Fruit – 07/30/25

Beautiful Day – 07/29/25

Humility – 07/28/25

Don’t Take the Bridge Out! – 07/11/25

Pray about Praying – 07/10/25

I Can Do It Myself – 07/09/25

Detriments to the Kingdom – 07/08/25

Love Lustres at Calvary – 07/07/25

The Best Interest of Others – 07/04/25

Clean My Aerator – 07/03/25

For Such a Worm as I – 07/02/25

A Single Spark – 07/01/25

Mistakes – 06/30/25

Things of Inestimable Worth – 06/27/25

Void in My Heart – 06/26/25

Judged More Strictly – 06/25/25

“It Is Finished” – 06/24/25

“No” To the Little Things – 06/23/25

Empty Vessels – 06/20/25

A Pond of Faith? – 06/19/25

Faith in Action – 06/18/25

Redolent of Your Fragrance! – 06/17/25

Power of Forgiveness – 06/16/25

Levels of “Badness”? – 06/13/25

To the Work – 06/12/25

Control Your Tongue – 06/11/25

Deeper Still – 06/10/25

You Are the Rudder – 06/09/25

Hello! I’m Thom Fowler.

South Vernon is one of three churches that I pastor. I’m proud to say that I am
a bi-vocational pastor. In the last 23 years of pastoral ministry I have worked
a full-time job so as not to financially burden the churches I serve.

A mentor of mine once said, “Small churches deserve good pastors, too!”

At the end of 2018, after 18 years in retail, I became a school bus driver…

but, that is what I do, not who I am. I am a follower of Christ and to me

that’s not just about going to church, opening my Bible and saying

a prayer occasionally. For me following Christ is interacting daily with

Someone who knows me and, despite my flaws, loves and accepts me.

One of my favorite Bible verses is from Ephesians 1:4,

Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy
and without fault in his eyes.” (NLT)

One of my motivations for preaching (and blogging! – see above) is that I know others struggle with life as I do and a partner on the journey is always welcome!