I continued our series, "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality," this past weekend at at Eastbrook Church This weekend, I turned our attention to the first chapter of God's Good Story: Creation. The message draws upon many Scripture passages, but finds its footing in Genesis 1 and 2. My main point was basically …
Six Pastoral Reflections on the California Synagogue Shooting
This past Saturday, a 19-year-old man opened fire in a synagogue near San Diego, Chabad of Poway, killing one and injuring several others. This past fall, a similar shooting occurred at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, taking even more lives. Since Saturday's events, I have been reflecting on how we should think about and …
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A Prayer of Catherine of Siena
Eternal Father, you said, "Let us make humankind to our own image and likeness." Thus you were willing to share with us your own greatness. You gave us the intellect to share your truth. You gave us the wisdom to share your goodness. And you gave us the free will to love that which is …
Image and Idolatry
A quick search online reveals that a lot of us have image problems. Not only do you and I have image problems, but it seems like every category of person, career, human activity, and individual has an image problem. The Satanic Inversion of the Image of God As I mentioned in my message this past …
I Am More Than My Image
With our current series at Eastbrook Church, "Who Am I?", we are exploring biblical answers to questions about finding our identity in God. This past weekend, in my message "I Am More Than My Image," I spoke to the ways in which we are tempted to live according to false images of ourselves instead of living …
Matthew Erickson 