"The Weekend Wanderer" is a weekly curated selection of news, stories, resources, and media on the intersection of faith and culture for you to explore through your weekend. Wander through these links however you like and in any order you like. Disclaimer: I do not necessarily agree with all the views expressed within these articles …
The Weekend Wanderer: 19 July 2025
"The Weekend Wanderer" is a weekly curated selection of news, stories, resources, and media on the intersection of faith and culture for you to explore through your weekend. Wander through these links however you like and in any order you like. Disclaimer: I do not necessarily agree with all the views expressed within these articles …
“In Everything”: the comprehensive call to love our neighbor
"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 7:12) Now, even though it could feel like Jesus’ summary statement in Matthew 7:12 is the sort of thing you would find in All I Really Need to Know I Learned …
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Christ Contains the Law: insights from an early church leader on Matthew 5
While studying for my message at Eastbrook from this past weekend, "Real Righteousness," I came across these words by an anonymous church father from homily 11 of an incomplete work on Matthew. I found these insights helpful in understanding how Christ does not abolish the Law but fulfills it. The author is commenting on the …
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Real Righteousness: the old and the new
This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our series "Becoming Real" on the Sermon on the Mount by looking at a very long portion of Scripture in Matthew 5:17-48. This long passage of teaching by Jesus looks at what it means to truly be righteous before God and in relation to others. Jesus has not …
Matthew Erickson 