What a long way it is between knowing God and loving him! - Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 377. It is easier to talk about God than to talk to God. It is easier to sense awe or delight in the created things - a sunrise, the face of a lover, the rugged mountain ranges - than it …
The Teacher Sits
Only someone who is silent is listening....Thus, the world reveals itself to the silent listener and only to him; the more silently he listens, the more purely is he able to perceive reality. - Josef Pieper The Teacher sits like a child on the floor in a room of adults standing above him. He speaks …
Sunday Prayer 24
Our Father, we rise this day under the shadow of the Cross, remembering the cost of our salvation. We remember the gift of Jesus' incarnation, in which we encounter Your full revelation. We remember the gift of Jesus' proclamation, in which we hear the sweet words of the Gospel and see the signs and wonders …
Visitation (discussion questions)
Here are the discussion questions that accompany my message, "Visitation," from this past weekend at Eastbrook Church. This is the second part of our series, "Beginnings." The text for this week is Luke 1:26-56. Discussion Questions: When have experienced a special gift in your life from a person or God? What happened? This week we continue …
Visitation
I continued the "Beginnings" series this weekend at Eastbrook Church by looking at the moving story of Mary found in Luke 1:26-56. My biggest challenges were addressing a passage that we all know so well while also covering a lot of important passages at once, from the annunciation to the Magnificat. You can view the message …
Matthew Erickson 