Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner. The Jesus Prayer is drawn from Luke 18:9-14, and is used widely throughout the Eastern Christian tradition.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel
N. T. Wright on the Importance of Binaries in Genesis
In my message this past weekend, "Creation and Embodied Sexuality," I referenced an extended quotation from New Testament scholar N. T. Wright on the importance of the binaries in Genesis. As I mentioned, there is a structural symmetry throughout Genesis 1 that links pairs of differents one to another. This symmetrical crescendo of creation reaches …
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Recovering the Wonder of Advent: Four pathways for preaching in Advent
I had the privilege to write an article on preaching in Advent for Preaching Today, which was just recently released. You can read the entire article, "Recovering the Wonder of Advent: Four pathways for preaching in Advent," at Preaching Today, but here's a taste of what you will find there. In my childhood, one of the greatest …
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Creation and Embodied Sexuality
I continued our series, "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality," this past weekend at at Eastbrook Church This weekend, I turned our attention to the first chapter of God's Good Story: Creation. The message draws upon many Scripture passages, but finds its footing in Genesis 1 and 2. My main point was basically …
Matthew Erickson 