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Dallas Willard's book, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God, is one of my favorite books of all time. In this book, Willard explores what discipleship is all about through the lens of the Sermon on the Mount. Much of Willard's work in the book builds from the accessibility of God's Kingdom through …
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When Jesus proclaims that “the kingdom of God has come near” (Mark 1:15), He draws upon a powerful idea that pervades the Hebrew Scriptures and history. There was an expectation in the Hebrew Scriptures that God’s kingdom would catastrophically break into the world. The Scriptures described a figure—the Messiah or Son of Man—who would inaugurate …
Yesterday I wrote a follow-up post ("Christ and Culture: exploring an important topic in conversation with H. Richard Niebuhr") to my Sunday sermon from Nehemiah 2:1-10, "Approaching Authority with Need," in which I explored the basic typology for Christian engagement with culture outlined by H. Richard Niebuhr in his class book, Christ and Culture. As I …
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This past weekend in my message, "Approaching Authority with Need," I turned to the unique passage where Nehemiah approaches King Artaxerxes (Nehemiah 2:1-10) with his heartbroken desire, birthed in prayer, to return to his peoples' land to rebuild and repair the walls of Jerusalem as part of a larger project of restoring his people. I …
This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our series from the book of Nehemiah entitled "Rebuild and Repair: Engaging the World with Nehemiah." I preached the third message of the series entitled, "Approaching Authority with Need," which was based in Nehemiah 2:1-10. You can find the message outline and video below. You can access the …
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Matthew Erickson 