One of the most well-known stories in the New Testament must be when Jesus invites Peter to walk on water in Matthew 14:22-33. Peter is often held up as either an example of bold faith in stepping out of the boat or faltering faith in sinking into the waves. However, there is another part of …
The Significance of Incidental Healing
Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.” (Luke 8:48) The woman with the issue of blood is an incidental healing; a healing on the way from one miracle to another. In the flow of Jesus' life and ministry, however, she is significant. While it appears as if Jesus' …
C. S. Lewis on the Unprovable Efficacy of Prayer
Recently, I came across this extended quotation from C. S. Lewis on prayer in a devotional I read each morning. Lewis' writings on prayer are always refreshing to me in their vibrancy and practicality. He is willing to address some of the most perplexing issues about prayer but does so without drying all the lively …
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A Pilgrim Prayer for Nomads
For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. (Hebrews 11:10) Abraham the nomad for God and His purposes is also Abraham the pilgrim. At one level, Abraham and Sarah's journey feels random and strange. They leave their homeland and their extended support network. They leave what is …
Book Review of Compassion and Conviction: The AND Campaign’s Guide to Faithful Civic Engagement by Justin Giboney, Michael Wear, and Chris Butler
“If there’s one book I should read about faith and politics, what should it be?” Who could really provide an adequate answer to such a question? Should it be voluminous classics like Augustine's City of God or Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica? What about Abraham Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism or Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from …
Matthew Erickson 