This past weekend in my message, "The Good News of New Beginnings," I didn't make my way into all the detail I had planned in the new beginning of Peter from his failure. Here are my sermon notes from that section, exploring Jesus' restoration of Peter from the failure of his denials. I hope this …
||40days|| week three: turn
As we continue the ||40days|| journey through Lent, this week we will focus on the theme: 'turn'. Last week, we looked at acknowledging things in our lives: sin, fears, brokenness, and longings. Radical honesty to acknowledge things in our lives is the first step of the journey, but it does not stop there. The next …
||40days|| week two: acknowledge our brokenness
When I moved into a new house, there were some problems with the driveway. Because of ground settling, the slabs were angled toward one corner of the house. Our house inspector identified the problem and told me that if we didn't remedy the situation in some way, there would likely be water seepage into the …
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||40days|| week two: acknowledge
"It wasn't me." "I didn't do it." "I don't know anything about it." Without a doubt, one of the greatest tendencies in our lives as people is denial. We read about this truth in the Bible when the prophet Jeremiah says: The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? …
Matthew Erickson 