I'm a big fan of a guy named Chris Lizotte who is a worship leader at a Vineyard Church in California. What I love about his music is the way that he conveys such honest and heart-felt worship of God in his music. He's been around for awhile, but I just came across this video …
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
This past Sunday, Russian author and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn passed away in his native Russia at the age of 89. Solzhenitsyn was a dedicated Orthodox Christian who is famous not only for his criticism of Stalin-era gulags - in books like The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - …
What Must God Be Like?
A professor of mine in my college days enjoyed asking the question “what must God be like?” For him, that question became a springboard into a larger world of reflection upon the wonders of God’s being and creativity.“What must God be like,” he would wonder aloud, “that the rings of Saturn are wound together in …
Live Freely
I spoke yesterday at Brooklife in our series on the life of David (Live Out Loud) on how we are to "Live Freely."Leaping off from the story of David fleeing Saul's house to hide in a cave (1 Samuel 22:1-2; also see 1 Samuel 24:1-4), I walked through Psalm 142.The main idea of the sermon …
Freedom
Today, we celebrate the birth of our nation with its great call for liberty and freedom for all. No matter how simplistic it might be, I am always reminded in this cultural celebration of liberty of the liberating work of Jesus Christ through His life, death, and resurrection. "It was for freedom that Christ has …
Matthew Erickson 