Photo by Landiva Weber on Pexels.com To live in three dimensions and not a flat, two-dimensional life. To enter abundance, to find fullness, to let God’s grandeur infuse me, and the beauty of God fill the sails of my life. So much anger and hatred around. So much flat foolishness and wasting of good time …
“Jesus, Holy God With Us” – a message from Leviticus for Lent
This past weekend at Eastbrook, we began a new preaching series entitled "Holy God, Wholly Given: Lent in Leviticus." My message this week aimed to set up the entire series while also exploring the holiness of God and the way God pursues us. "Jesus, Holy God With Us" drew upon a wide variety of texts …
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The Conversation: the Humble King
A recent addition to my daily time in prayer has been a sort of conversational prayer with God arising from my reflection on Scripture and my life. After slowing down with a portion of Scripture, I often write out some of my own thoughts as a form of prayer in my journal. Then, I slow …
The Conversation: at the river’s edge
A recent addition to my daily time in prayer has been a sort of conversational prayer with God arising from my reflection on Scripture and my life. After slowing down with a portion of Scripture, I often write out some of my own thoughts as a form of prayer in my journal. Then, I slow …
You have loved us first: a prayer by Søren Kierkegaard
Father in Heaven! You have loved us first, help us never to forget that You are love so that this sure conviction might triumph in our hearts over the seduction of the world, over the inquietude of the soul, over the anxiety for the future, over the fright of the past, over the distress of …
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Matthew Erickson 