This past Sunday in my message, "Encountering a Broken World," I mentioned how God works through broken people, referencing a list of examples from the Bible. A few people asked me to share that list with them, so here it is. “For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven” …
A Prayer for Purification
"Is not my word like fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer which breaks the rock in pieces?" (Jeremiah 23:29) burn our hearts, O Lord,with Your pure word.You, who are consuming fire, in whose radiant holiness none can stand,come with refining heatto purify our wayward heartsand with Your pure word,O Lord, burn our hearts. …
A Call to the Wilderness: What We Need to Hear from John the Baptist Today
John the Baptist’s preaching and baptisms occurred in the wilderness of Judea at the Jordan River near the Spring near Salim (John 3:23). The wilderness was an evocative place in the imagination of the Jewish people. It likely brought immediate memory of the Exodus. The wilderness was both the place between slavery and promise, but …
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Marc Chagall, Lamentations of Jeremiah
How Do We Hear from God today?
Through the past two blog posts , I have held up a vision of the God who speaks in various ways and we as His people hearing from Him. That is the vision I want to put in front of us. The prophets heard from God, and their hearing is unique from ours as authoritative …
Matthew Erickson 