"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: 1 February 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 …
Finding Identity with God in a Secular Age
This past weekend in my message, "Fools for Christ," I explored some aspects of finding identity with God through Christ. To help us grasp this, I’d like to explore a little more deeply than I could in a Sunday sermon what personal identity is and how it is formed. Why do we have a sense …
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Bibliography on Christian Identity for the “Who Am I?” series
Whenever I study for a sermon series, I spend a lot of time far in advance of that sermon series doing research, reading books, thinking, reading articles, reflecting, reading more books, writing, and reading even more. I usually gather all of the resources I use together into a bibliography for each series. In the past …
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I Am Known by Faith
Why is it so important for us to be authentically known and to authentically know others? Why do relationships feel a tension expressed often in exasperation with phrases like, "You don't even know who I am!" or "I don't even know who you are anymore!" It is because being known and knowing others is one …
Matthew Erickson 