Everybody loves a good story. If you sit with a child to read a story to them, watch out! You may find yourself being asked to read it again and again and again. If you open your house for a movie night on Friday, you will likely have a big group of friends show up …
Is God Personal?
There are some people who mock the idea of a personal God, or a ‘Personal Jesus.’ There are some reasons why this is completely understandable. Particularly when we hear people say things like: "Jesus is my buddy" "Jesus is my homeboy" "Jesus is like my boyfriend" Such statements convey the idea that God is in …
See – Good – Take: The threefold movement of sin
In my readings of Genesis this week, I was struck by two different stories about sin. Adam & Eve with the Fruit (Genesis 3) When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. …
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Guidance for Reading through the Bible in a Year
What follows is an email that I sent out to the group of people who are journeying with me through the Bible this year. I am copying it up here because there may be some who are not on the emailing list I have, and I thought I'd share it. If you want to be …
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Through the Bible in 2011…there’s still time
There is still time to join, if you would like join me and others at Eastbrook Church reading the Bible through this coming year, drop me an email (see below). I am going to utilize the daily calendar from One Year Bible. You can utilize this as a print-out to stick in your Bible, visit …
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Matthew Erickson 