Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see you …
God of the Lost Ones
Two weekends ago, I began a new series entitled "God in Blank Spaces." The idea of this series is to connect our thinking about who God is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit with what God does in our world. One question I pondered quite a bit is this: if God is who we say …
The Trinity: historical background
One of the biggest problems within contemporary North American Christianity is theological amnesia. Many churchgoers have no idea that our faith is situated within "a great cloud of witnesses" (Hebrews 12:1) spanning from the time of Christ up to our present day. As a remedy to that, more than ten years ago I pulled together a …
The Trinity: God the Holy Spirit
Following on from the previous messages on "God the Father" and "God the Son," I concluded our vision series on The Trinity with an exploration of the third person of the Trinity, God the Holy Spirit. I am a bit of an odd duck in terms of my church background. I had a transforming encounter in …
The Trinity: God the Son
Picking up from the previous weekend on "God the Father," I continued our vision series with an exploration of the second person of the Trinity, God the Son. How do you pack into one message the entirety of Scriptural teaching on God the Son, plus give attention to some of the most important debates …
Matthew Erickson 