Father, I praise and worship You. Your love is hard to comprehend: so vast, un-measurable, and free. Your power is beyond me: creating things from nothing, sustaining the world daily, and eternal. Jesus, Your sacrifice was so selfless and painful, yet brought healing and reconnection with God. Thank You for coming as a man and …
Saturday Prayer 30
Oh God, our Father, through the holy wonder of Your One and Only Son reveal Yourself to me. Oh Father, I know it is sheer gift; I know it is only by the choosing of Your Son. Oh God, our Father, So long I have not known Your life in my living; reveal Yourself to …
Saturday Prayer 10
Our Father, who is in heaven, holy is Your Name ... Your Name that splits open the earth, causing hills and rocks to come forth. Your Name that brings the sun to rise and bathes the cool earth in lighted warmth. Your Name that births scorching suns across the universe as speckled stars in our …
God’s Triple Team
I recently came across a very helpful interview with J. I. Packer about the necessity of preaching on the Trinity called "God's Triple Team." Packer is probably best known as the author of Knowing God, and is also a professor at Regent College in Vancouver, BC. Now, I love Packer's work because he calls us …
A Word from St. Francis
I recently read this powerful statement from St. Francis of Assisi: "What I am before God, that I am." How often we think of ourselves in terms of what others' opinions are. The truth of our identity, however, is not in what any person thinks of us, whether parent, sibling, lover, friend, enemy, or stranger. …
Matthew Erickson 