My continued reflections on pastoral ministry, the church, and what it means to be in ministry in North America led me back to Thomas Oden's Pastoral Theology: Essentials of Ministry. I first read this book while still an undergrad at Wheaton College but enrolled with special permission in a graduate level class entitle "Pastoral Ministry," I …
Marc Chagall, Moses Receiving the Ten Commandments
Murder, Adultery and Theft
I continued our series, "Chiseled," on the Ten Commandments this weekend at Eastbrook Church by looking at the sixth, seventh and eighth commandments from Exodus 20:13-15. These are the most brief and bluntly worded commandments of the Decalogue. I brought together Jesus' parallels to these commandments in the Sermon on the Mount in order to talk about …
Set Apart
This weekend at Eastbrook Church, I continued our series, "Chiseled," on the Ten Commandments by looking at the third and fourth commandments from Exodus 20:7-11. While we may not immediately see a connection between the command about not misusing God's name and the command about keeping the Sabbath, they have a lot in common. They are …
The Ten
This weekend at Eastbrook Church, I began our new series on the Ten Commandments entitled "Chiseled." The message was really an introduction on how we can see the Ten Commandments as God's words of life, love, and mission to God's people. I also spent time reflecting on how we should read the Ten Commandments as followers …
Matthew Erickson 