This past weekend in my message, "Approaching Authority with Need," I turned to the unique passage where Nehemiah approaches King Artaxerxes (Nehemiah 2:1-10) with his heartbroken desire, birthed in prayer, to return to his peoples' land to rebuild and repair the walls of Jerusalem as part of a larger project of restoring his people. I …
Bibliography for Faith and Politics
When I conclude a sermon series, I usually share the resources I used to help me study and prepare my sermons. Here is the second of two bibliographies for our recently completed series, "The Kingdom of God" (you can find the first one here). This bibliography has a backstory. Before the pandemic we had a …
Matthew Erickson 