This is the third in a series of posts with thoughts from Paul's letter to the PhilippiansA Letter from Prison (Philippians, pt 1). These posts are personal reflections taken from devotional reading of the book. I have always been captured by Paul's statement in Philippians 2:12-13: Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed …
Barriers to Loving Your Neighbor
This past weekend at Eastbrook, as we continued our series, "Will You Be My Neighbor?", Dan Ryan helped us consider barriers we have to loving our neighbor. Touching upon the key aspects of what it means to be Modern, American, and Evangelical, Dan opened up some very helpful insights through story-telling and study of the parable …
Listening at Morning: a prayer poem
sunlight, splashing across fresh-cut grass, leaving diamonds affixed to each blade, like teardrops. criss-crossing tree trunks and branches, still Spring-bare with slightest buds, interlace like fingers in prayer, rising up from the earth. dim, white-washed morning sky, painted too thin across the heavenly canvas, sweeps away yesterday's darkened thoughts, as the birds cry out, "good …
A Prayer of Gregory of Nazianzus
O transcendent, Almighty God, What words can sing your praises? No tongue can describe you. No mind can probe your mystery. Yet all speech springs from you, And all thought stems from you. All creation proclaims you, All creatures revere you. Every gust of wind breathes a prayer to you, Every rustling tree sings a …
Matthew Erickson 