If I told you to sit in a chair at my dinner table, I'm confident you would be more than happy to take a seat. But if I told you to sit in a chair that was rickety with only two good legs, you might reconsider. One chair is trustworthy but another is not quite …
||40days|| week six: live joyful
In the midst of our pursuit of God, we can sometimes focus so much on the seriousness of discipleship that we miss out on the joy of our life with God. Of course, there are good reasons for that. First of all, Jesus called us to take up our cross, deny ourselves and follow Him. …
||40days|| week six: live thankful
Every year in the US, we mark out a day to celebrate what we have been given. Thanksgiving Day, in my opinion, is actually one of the most culturally amazing moments where we take time out from work and normal routines to simply celebrate and enjoy God's goodness. Of course, like all things, Thanksgiving can …
||40days|| week six: live
The||40days|| journey of Lent has taken us along the road of acknowledging difficult things in our lives, turning from them, listening to God's voice, and then following Jesus, our Leader. This week, we continue the journey with a focus around the theme: 'live.' At times, it might be easy to mistake the journey of these …
||40days|| week five: follow the charge
There are few things which set the blood pumping as much as watching a team make a heroic charge to victory. Whether it's an underdog basketball team surging to an upset or a football team pushing down the field in the last two minutes of a game, such an effort is quite a thing to …
Matthew Erickson 