I want to live from the center of things.I want to be who I am, where I am, no matter the other people or things around.I want to breath free and easy without fear and constricted stress.I want to be paced and in rhythm with God, life, and love.I want to enjoy the gifts of …
Art and the Bible
For those of you interested in the arts, I wanted to pass along the name of an old book that I recently encountered by a great Christian thinker of the 20th century. Francis Schaeffer's Art and the Bible is a brief but powerful handling of the intersection of the arts and the Christian worldview.Moving from …
Missional: Living With and For
I recently watched the movie Chocolat starring Juliette Binoche, Judie Dench, Alfred Molina, and Johnnie Depp. I watched the movie because it was mentioned in a book I've been reading called The Shaping of Things to Come. I enjoyed the movie at numerous levels: landscapes, use of color, story, imagery, acting, etc. But the reason …
Missional: Existing for Others
Mel Lawrenz, Senior Pastor at Elmbrook, passed the following quotation from Paul Borden's recent book Direct Hit to me:Healthy congregations are defined by sacrifice... They exist more for those who are currently not part of the group than for those who comprise the current congregation.This is what being missional is all about: existing for the …
Robert E. Webber – his influence
This is a follow-up to my post yesterday about a mentor of mine, Dr. Robert E. Webber. For a more thorough biographical sketch, you can find a press release from Northern Seminary here.Bob was the first person to get me to think historically about my faith and theology. In a Christian Thought class that I …
Matthew Erickson 