A few week back at church, I sang a song I had written. Some folks had asked me about it.The song was written for my home church while I was in college when the church was going through some difficult times in terms of loss. The song is entitled "There's a Wideness in God's Mercy" …
If I Were to Surrender All My Words – a poem
If I were to surrender all my words,my skill (if skill this can be rightly claimed)and fixed desire to fashion words with plainprecision, thought and love, would all rewardsof such a humble act impel me towardthat end? My saner thoughts call for refrainfrom leaps of faith and self-inflicted strainunless a measured gain that would award.Still, …
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Art and the Bible
For those of you interested in the arts, I wanted to pass along the name of an old book that I recently encountered by a great Christian thinker of the 20th century. Francis Schaeffer's Art and the Bible is a brief but powerful handling of the intersection of the arts and the Christian worldview.Moving from …
Trip Me Up in Your Grace – a poem
i achewearyrushing after the airto fall upon a cloudless skyempty and crashinglike hunger's barelysated burnhelp meawake true thirst and hungertrip me up in Your gracetwist meundo meremake and renew mei am never right untilseeing my wrong in Your lightbe still, my soul, wait patientlyfor the Lordbe still and know that He is God8 August 2005
In Awe – a poem
so beautiful and serene thatno string of words could capture adequatelythe sights and sounds and scents and sensations of this time and placethank You, Father,for the eyes to see,for the ears to hear,for the nose to smell,for nerves alive to feel,for legs to walk,for arms to lift and carry,for all my body so alive and …
Matthew Erickson 