I struggle with busyness. I hate it, yet I love it. Being busy refreshes me, but it can also suck the life out of my soul. In my recent reading of a biography of Henri Nouwen, an amazing writer on the spiritual life who was also a professor at Yale and Harvard, I came across …
Henri Nouwen on Distracting Voices
I came across these wise words from Henri Nouwen while reading today: One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are and waste a lot of time and energy to prove what doesn't need to be proved...voices keep pulling us away from that soft gentle voice that speaks in …
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 