We have information without knowledge, and the knowledge we have does not lead us to wisdom. Wisdom is fashioned through reflection upon the crucible of living with knowledge, inadequate knowledge, or lack of knowledge. Yet, the crucible of life is often that against which we medicate ourselves or from which we insulate ourselves. We arch our …
Solzhenitsyn on Life, Death, and Humanism
I came across this stunning paragraph from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 1978 commencement address to Harvard University when re-reading Stanley Hauerwas' book A Community of Character the other day. As I was working on my message from this past weekend at Eastbrook, I found Solzhenitsyn's words a helpful encouragement for the right direction I was going. If humanism were …
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Is Jesus Really the Only Way? (discussion questions)
Here are the discussion questions that accompany my message, "Does Jesus Really Give Us Life?," from this past weekend at Eastbrook Church. This is the third and final part of our series, "3 Questions We All Have About Jesus," where we delve into Jesus' provocative statement: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No …
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Beginning to Live with Love
This weekend at Eastbrook Church we concluded our series "Beginning to Live." My message this week was called "Beginning to Live with Love" and focused on how the resurrection of Jesus reveals the love of God while also bringing power into our lives to love others. I spoke from 1 Corinthians 13, which is a very familiar …
||40days|| week six: live
The||40days|| journey of Lent has taken us along the road of acknowledging difficult things in our lives, turning from them, listening to God's voice, and then following Jesus, our Leader. This week, we continue the journey with a focus around the theme: 'live.' At times, it might be easy to mistake the journey of these …
Matthew Erickson 