My God—my Father and Preserver—who of your goodness has watched over me during the past night, and brought me to this day, grant also that I may spend it wholly in the worship and service of your most holy deity. Let me not think, or say, or do a single thing which tends not to …
Basic Reformation Timeline
As part of my own preparation for this past weekend's message, "Faith and Grace," I drew up a basic timeline of the Reformation. I'm simply sharing it here as a number of folks asked me about some of the historical details after services on Saturday and Sunday. You can find a much more detailed timeline …
Faith and Grace
This past weekend at Eastbrook Church we commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Reformation with a weekend focused on two major Reformation themes: "Faith and Grace." The first part of the message focused on historical background and context of the Reformation. I eventually took us into an exploration of three Scripture passages central to Reformation thinking on faith …
Carried Away and Rootless
This past weekend at Eastbrook Church, we started a study on Psalm 1 called "Rooted." I love this powerful, pithy psalm. John Calvin, in his commentary on the Psalms, writes this in reflection on Psalm 1: the general character of men's lives is nothing else but a continual departure from the law of God; the …
John Calvin: a prayer from Jonah
In my study for the last two weeks at Brooklife ("A Second Chance" and "What a Pity"), I came across a lot of material that never made it into my messages. Here is a prayer written by John Calvin, one of the fathers of the Reformation and author of Institutes of the Christian Religion, that …
Matthew Erickson 