During this past year, I read through Alan Jacobs' book Original Sin: A Cultural History. Jacobs was a professor of mine at Wheaton College and is an astute cultural commentator and author. In the midst of Jacobs' comparison of the original innocence of Adam and Eve with our own original sinfulness, he makes an interesting …
Something Old, Something New
I love to read. That's one of the main reasons that when my family wants to give me a gift, they immediately think of giving me books or money to buy books. Some of you have been in my office and are thinking: 'you have too many books already!' Regardless of the truth of that, …
Liar, Lunatic, Lord – an apologetic revisited
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1) One of the most startling phrases at the beginning of John's Gospel is this : ‘The Word was God’. John describes Jesus as the definitive Word of God, while also actually being the divine being Himself. …
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The NIV 2011: Sorting through the Changes
For those of you who follow this sort of thing, there is a revised version of the New International Version of the Bible coming in 2011. This is an update of the 1984 version of the NIV that also takes into account the recent TNIV (Today's New International Version) published in 2005. There has been …
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2 Neglected Topics in Today’s Church?
This morning at Eastbrook, Marc made a provocative statement that I have been thinking about all day. He said that the church today in America has neglected two topics in our practice: evangelism and prayer. What do you think?
Matthew Erickson 