I was standing on the edge of a mountain in central Honduras, looking over the hazy, green slopes of the valley. There were just over a dozen of us who had given up our Spring Break at college to work alongside of local Hondurans to install a gravity-fed water system in this remote village. It …
The Real Good News
“To recover the old, authentic, biblical gospel, and to bring our preaching and practice back into line with it, is perhaps our most pressing present need.” J. I. Packer wrote these words in his 1958 introductory essay for a reprint of John Owen’s The Death of Death in the Death of Christ. While Packer went …
Responding to God’s Grace (David)
Last week, I wrote two posts tracing the slow decline of King Saul (The Pathway to Slow Decline part 1 | part 2). In one way, those posts seemed to convey inevitability in Saul’s life that could be depressing. Today, I wanted to offer a contrast to Saul’s decline by looking at David’s rise focusing …
Grace in the Law
Take from me the way of lying; let me find grace through your law. - Psalm 119:29 When I normally think of God's law, I think of the rules that I need to keep. I think of the Ten Commandments with the "thou shalts..." and "thou shalt nots..." I think of commands and strict parenting. …
The Tale of Two Sons
Yesterday at Brooklife, I concluded the Storyteller series with a sermon on Luke 15 called "The Tale of Two Sons." Luke 15 contains three parables by Jesus, the last of which is commonly called the parable of the prodigal son. My sermon focused on this parable, but I strongly believe that it should really be …
Matthew Erickson 