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In light of my recent exploration of the book of Daniel at Eastbrook Church (see "Daniel: Apocalyptic Imagination and Exile Faith"), Alan Jacobs' blog post earlier this week seemed well-timed for me. Jacobs interacts with Adrian Vermeule's review of Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed, in which Vermeule offers an alternative to Deneen’s plea for a renewed localism, and …
Continue reading "Making a Daniel: Alan Jacobs on counter-cultural catechesis"
While gathering book recommendations recently, I was reminded of the ever important advice that while making the effort to read good new books it is also vitally important to make the effort to read good old books. I've encountered that advice from friends, mentors, and a wide variety of authors over the years. I'll never …
Continue reading "Reading Old Books: C. S. Lewis’ Introduction to Athanasius’ On the Incarnation"
Throughout our series, "Great Prayers of the Bible," we looked at passages of Scripture in which prayer is the central activity. Along with study of those specific Bible passages, I turned to the wisdom of many authors far more brilliant than me and from many different eras for help. At times people ask me whether …
In my message this past weekend, "Prayer of Surrender," I shared two different quotations related to ways in which we need to relinquish our life to God. The first came from Richard Foster, in his book Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home: Struggle is an essential feature of prayer…Jesus’ prayer struggle [in the Garden of Gethsemane] …
The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it had bridled the rage of lions, hushed the anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested …
Matthew Erickson 