For the Lord is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly. (Psalm 84:11) In my more upbeat days, I can easily look around at the world, my life, and my circumstances and see the brilliant light of God shining down upon …
A Prayer
Oh my Lord, Be merciful to me Come, wash over me With the precious blood of Jesus Come, fill me up With the breath of Your Spirit Come, completely guide me With Your shepherd’s hand You are the grace-giver The life-giver And re-maker Take these dead bones And make them alive Resuscitated and completed in …
Five for Friday (Nov 13, 2009)
Here's five points of interest for your Friday: Oversensitive QB Reads Too Much into Defense. 40 years of lessons with Sesame Street. You may also want to watch this moving interview of Cookie Monster about eating cookies. And you thought you had sneezing problems! How about this 12-year-old girl who sneezes 12 times a minute …
Talking about Ourselves?
Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz and, more recently, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, has become a helpful voice to many within contemporary Christian writing. Miller is a writer of memoirs, "narratives composed of personal experience" according to Merriam-Webster. He works out what Frederick Buechner, one of my favorite authors, meant when …
The Tale of Friends at Midnight
This past Sunday, November 8, I kicked-off a new series at Brooklife Church called "Storyteller," in which we are looking at parables of Jesus. I was looking at the parables of the friend coming to another asking for bread at midnight. The focus of my message was on the confidence we can have with our …
Matthew Erickson 