My friend, Ryan, recently caught my attention with a book entitled The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century. This book was written by two professors of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz, in an effort to uncover the increasing disconnectedness in American life and its startling effects. It …
John Calvin: a prayer from Jonah
In my study for the last two weeks at Brooklife ("A Second Chance" and "What a Pity"), I came across a lot of material that never made it into my messages. Here is a prayer written by John Calvin, one of the fathers of the Reformation and author of Institutes of the Christian Religion, that …
What a Pity
I concluded the "Gone Fishing" series at Brooklife Church yesterday with a message entitled "What a Pity" on Jonah chapter four. The message focused on how the entire book of Jonah is a journey into the heart of God and God holding up a mirror to our hearts to see how they compare to His …
Matthew Erickson 