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“‘Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man.’ I was cupbearer to the king.” (Nehemiah 1:11) At the end of his prayer in chapter 1, …
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Yesterday I wrote a follow-up post ("Christ and Culture: exploring an important topic in conversation with H. Richard Niebuhr") to my Sunday sermon from Nehemiah 2:1-10, "Approaching Authority with Need," in which I explored the basic typology for Christian engagement with culture outlined by H. Richard Niebuhr in his class book, Christ and Culture. As I …
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Every year on this day set aside for celebrating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., I make time to listen to or read his famous "I Have a Dream Speech." I encourage you today to read the speech or watch (below) the roughly seventeen-minute speech that King gave over fifty years ago. …
Thou Eternal God, out of whose absolute power and infinite intelligence the whole universe has come into being, we humbly confess that we have not loved thee with our hearts, souls and minds, and we have not loved our neighbors as Christ loved us. We have all too often lived by our own selfish impulses …
Every year on this day set aside for celebrating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., I make time to listen to or read his famous "I Have a Dream Speech." I encourage you today to read the speech or watch (below) the roughly seventeen-minute speech that King gave over fifty years ago. …
Continue reading "Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I Have a Dream” and More"
Matthew Erickson 