In our current series at Eastbrook Church, "Who Am I?", we are looking at biblical answers to questions about our identity as human beings. This past weekend I explored the ways in which we are made uniquely by God both as human beings in general and also as individuals. This was also African Global Gateway weekend, …
Andrei Rublev, The Trinity
Thursdays with Murray [Humility, week 4]
As I continue interacting with Andrew Murray's writings over the next number of weeks, I am currently spending time first with his short book Humility, which a friend shared with my recently. After looking at how humility is the secret of our salvation and the way in which Jesus models humility in his life, Murray focuses …
Alan Jacobs: a Christian intellectual for the internet age
I was thrilled to read a feature online on Alan Jacobs, one of my favorite professors during my studies at Wheaton College, and also one of the few contemporary authors who I read nearly everything they write. While studying English literature as undergrads, my wife, Kelly, and I (as of then only dating) traveled to Oxford …
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Image and Idolatry
A quick search online reveals that a lot of us have image problems. Not only do you and I have image problems, but it seems like every category of person, career, human activity, and individual has an image problem. The Satanic Inversion of the Image of God As I mentioned in my message this past …
Matthew Erickson 