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As I continue to reflect on unity as we walk through our current series at Eastrook Church, "One: The Being of God in the Life of the Church," here is a powerful quotation from Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Life Together on the necessary tension between solitude and community: Let him who cannot be alone beware of …
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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end.He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom,establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever.The zeal of the Lord Almighty will …
Continue reading "The Heart of God’s Deliverance: a word from John Oswalt on Isaiah 9"
When I conclude a sermon series, I usually share the resources I used to help me study and prepare my sermons. Here is the second of two bibliographies for our recently completed series, "The Kingdom of God" (you can find the first one here). This bibliography has a backstory. Before the pandemic we had a …
“If there’s one book I should read about faith and politics, what should it be?” Who could really provide an adequate answer to such a question? Should it be voluminous classics like Augustine's City of God or Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica? What about Abraham Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism or Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from …
When I conclude a sermon series, I usually share the resources I used to help me study and prepare my sermons. Here is the first of two bibliographies for our current series, "The Kingdom of God." Next week I will share a second bibliography specifically related to faith and politics that I leaned on for …
Matthew Erickson 