This past weekend in my message, "The Pursuit of God," I referenced a quotation by St. Gregory of Nyssa taken from his influential work The Life of Moses: “Once having set foot upon the ladder…he [Moses] continually climbed to the step above and never ceased to rise higher, because he always found a step higher …
The Inescapable Longing of Humanity
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11) There is one stream of scientific thought that has sought to reduce human beings to mere biological or chemical elements. In the midst …
The Flesh of Our Savior: the importance of the body in Jesus’ redemption
The entire life of faith begins with God reaching out to us first. In response to humanity’s fall from grace and sin’s impact upon this world, God sent Jesus—fully God and fully man—to live, die and be resurrected to bring us and all creation back to God through relational restoration. This is how the Apostle …
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Living for God in Our Bodies: notes on embodied discipleship
"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." (Galatians 2:20) Discipleship is an interesting concept that at times has become abstracted into …
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Why Is Sexuality Such a Big Deal in the Bible?: a brief reflection
Photo by Rahul Pandit on Pexels.com The past few weekends at Eastbrook, our series from 1 Corinthians, "God's Grace for an Imperfect Church," has taken us into some very challenging words from this letter of the Apostle Paul. The first two verses of chapter quickly give us a sense of that challenge: It is actually …
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Matthew Erickson 