After an especially busy time in my life, I sort of hit a wall with all of the planning and scheduling I was doing. There was so much logistical business and organization that my head had simply become numb. These are the points I tend to arrive at where I feel as if I am …
What Will Endure?
In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them and they will be discarded. But You remain the same, and Your years will never end. …
Less Than Living
So often the lives we lead in our society are so much less than life. Our frenzied busyness has become what we now call life. We are hurried to exhaustion. We work jobs we hate to buy things we don’t need so we can amuse ourselves with things we don’t really enjoy in the end. …
Parker Palmer on economics, morality, and meaning
As I was driving back from the library studying for my sermon on Jonah, I just happened to tune in to hear a re-broadcast of Krista Tippet's interview with Parker Palmer on the show Speaking of Faith. This interview took place in 2008 and was aimed at evaluating the global economic downturn. Taking his own …
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Twelve Practical Points on Prayer
This past year, I have endeavored to grow in my life of prayer. Last October, I read through a brief pamphlet by J. C. Ryle entitled A Call to Prayer. Ryle is a 19th century Anglican Bishop most famous for his book Holiness. Here are twelve practical points with which Ryle concludes this excellent little …
Matthew Erickson 