Over the next number of weeks, I am interacting with some of the writings of Andrew Murray. Murray was a South African pastor and missionary during the 19th and early 20th centuries. I am spending time first with his short book Humility, which a friend shared with me recently. In the second chapter of the book, …
The Pastor and Evangelism: Six Freeing Approaches to Fulfilling our Evangelistic Calling
It’s a pleasure to be a regular contributor to The Gospel Life blog. sponsored by the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. My latest post dropped today: "The Pastor and Evangelism: Six Freeing Approaches to Fulfilling Our Evangelistic Calling." Here’s an excerpt, but you can read the entire post here. If we are honest as pastors, …
Bibliography for the Theology of Suffering and the Life of Joseph
Whenever I study for a sermon series, I spend a lot of time far in advance of that sermon series doing research, reading books, thinking, reading articles, reflecting, reading more books, writing, and reading even more. I usually gather all of the resources I use together into a bibliography for each series. Sometimes, I have …
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I Am Not Stuck
With our current series at Eastbrook Church, "Who Am I?", we are exploring biblical answers to questions about our identity as human beings. This weekend I addressed the ways in which we feel stuck in life, and how a deeper level of being stuck - or existential dissonance - is the underlying cause of that. I talked …
Who Am I?: a new series at Eastbrook Church
This past weekend at Eastbrook Church, as we celebrated the resurrection, we launched a new series entitled "Who Am I?: Finding Identity in Christ." My first message in that series, "He Is - I Am," explored how the life, death and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah leads us into the discovery of what it truly means …
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Matthew Erickson 