As I prepared for my message from this past weekend, "God of the Little Ones," I read a lot of different material. In returning to Stanley Hauerwas' A Community of Character, I was seized by the power of his comments on children, not only in relation to parents but also in terms of the broader community …
God of the Lost Ones
Two weekends ago, I began a new series entitled "God in Blank Spaces." The idea of this series is to connect our thinking about who God is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit with what God does in our world. One question I pondered quite a bit is this: if God is who we say …
Bibliography on the Trinity
My studies for our series "The Trinity" at Eastbrook plunged me into a lot of reading, reflecting, and praying. Along with a thorough study of Scripture on the nature of God as Trinity, I strongly recommend readings of the early Christian creeds, particular the Nicene Creed and the Chalcedonian Formula. However, I also turned to …
The Trinity: historical background
One of the biggest problems within contemporary North American Christianity is theological amnesia. Many churchgoers have no idea that our faith is situated within "a great cloud of witnesses" (Hebrews 12:1) spanning from the time of Christ up to our present day. As a remedy to that, more than ten years ago I pulled together a …
The Trinity: God the Holy Spirit
Following on from the previous messages on "God the Father" and "God the Son," I concluded our vision series on The Trinity with an exploration of the third person of the Trinity, God the Holy Spirit. I am a bit of an odd duck in terms of my church background. I had a transforming encounter in …
Matthew Erickson 