Matt Erickson

A photo from hiking at Scuppernong Springs on Friday. Beautiful cloudy skies canopy the land’s fine layer of snow as Autumn bends toward Winter.

A picture from last Friday’s hike with Kelly at Milwaukee’s Grant Park. After hiking the ridge trail we ended up at the beachfront on a cool, stormy day.

Currently reading: Surrender by Bono 📚

Currently reading: How to Inhabit Time by James K. A. Smith 📚

Currently reading: The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy 📚

Beginning to work on some teaching about anxiety for a retreat I’m speaking at in 2023. Friends, what are your best resources or advice for addressing this important topic in our lives?

A photo from Friday’s hike near Butler Lake on the Ice Age Trail. I love this time of year.

Currently reading: Evangelical Anxiety by Charles Marsh 📚

Another striking forest photo from this past weekend while hiking the Ice Age Trail, just south of Loew Lake near Erin, Wisconsin.

Beautiful trees on the Ice Age Trail, just south of Loew Lake near Erin, Wisconsin, while on a hike this past weekend.

I am continually amazed by this verse, and I hope that never wears off: “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness” (2 Peter 1:3).

Currently reading: Leading with a Limp by Dan B. Allender 📚

Dipping into an old favorite as I work on my message for this coming weekend from Hebrews 10:25 with @EastbrookChurch

Currently reading: The Art of Patience by Sylvain Tesson 📚

“We must pray who we actually are, not who we think we should be….The way of prayer is not to cover our unlovely emotions so that they will appear respectable, but expose them so that they can be enlisted in the work of the kingdom.” - Eugene Peterson, Answering God

Currently reading: This Sacred Life by Norman Wirzba 📚

Currently re-reading: Answering God by Eugene H. Peterson 📚

Currently reading: Run with the Horses by Eugene H. Peterson 📚

Currently reading: The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2) by Andrew Root 📚

Currently reading: Earth and Altar by Eugene H. Peterson 📚

A beautiful view of Spider Lake while at Fort Wilderness last week. So thankful for that meaningful place and community, as well as regular time there.

Just finished reading: The Gardener’s Son by Cormac McCarthy 📚

Currently reading: This Hallelujah Banquet by Eugene H. Peterson 📚

I love this picture from last year while traveling near a covered bridge.

Currently reading: A Commentary on the Apostles’ Creed by Rufinus. 📚