After many of my preaching series, I enjoy sharing a bibliography that I used to help prepare for that series. Sometimes they are wide-ranging, such as the series on the life of Joseph, while at other times they are more clearly bounded by one specific topic, such as the series on prayer. Here is the resource bibliography …
Apocalyptic Christ: a poem
visions of horror shudder the human heart heaving oceans and lurching beasts clamor over creation raging conquerors crush and kill life scurrying under the sun and history's wheels roll over all vulnerable souls then lightning flashes the skies and tear-filled eyes see heaven's in-breaking rule snaps in like a curtain torn in two all the …
Summary Chart on Daniel’s visions
In my message this past weekend at Eastbrook Church from Daniel 10:1-12:4, "Faith and the Final Vision," I shared a chart that I adapted from Sidney Greidanus' book Preaching Christ from Daniel. I want to thank Pete Briscoe for recommending the book to me because it has been an invaluable resource, along with many other resources, …
A Faith-full Imagination
The imagination, so one definition says, is “the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses.” With imagination, we see what is not visible to our physical eyes, hear what is audible but not in the moment, and consider what is not tangibly before …
3 Reasons Daniel’s Visions Matter
As we have been journeying through a preaching series on the book of Daniel at Eastbrook Church, "Daniel: Apocalyptic Imagination and Exile Faith," we have come to some of the most difficult parts of the book to understand in the visions of chapters 7-12. Through these visions, God unveils the reality of what is really …
Matthew Erickson 