Matt Erickson
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, in “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Alongside the many other festivities on St. Patrick’s Day it seems only appropriate to also share the prayer attributed to St. Patrick.
Here is “The Weekend Wanderer” for 15 March 2025 - a weekly curated selection of news, stories, resources, and media on the intersection of faith and culture for you to explore through your weekend.
Friends, I appreciate your prayer support today as I work on a couple upcoming messages for our series “Holy God, Wholly Given: Lent in Leviticus” at Eastbrook Church. I always highly value your prayers for this. Thank you!
This week we started a new podcast bonus episode called “Behind the Sermon” at Eastbrook Church, focusing on our new series on Leviticus. I had so much fun talking with fellow staffer Gabriel Douglas about various questions people submitted.
Reread The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 📚 This is my first reading of it since high school and it was much better than I remember from my high school years. Mental note: do not hold onto any pre-college judgments of literature.
“Jesus, Holy God With Us” – my message from this past weekend at Eastbrook Church to begin our journey of Lent and our series “Holy God, Wholly Given: Lent in Leviticus”
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Here’s my bibliography for our recently completed sermon series “Authentic Faith: Growing with James the Apostle” at Eastbrook Church. I really enjoyed this walk through the epistle of James.
I’m really looking forward to this new preaching series for Lent, “Holy God, Wholly Given: Lent in Leviticus,” at Eastbrook Church. It’s been one of the most complex and rewarding sermon series to plan and prepare for.
Journey to the Cross 2025: beginning our Lenten journey.
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Friends, I deeply appreciate your support as I work on messages today for the next couple of weeks at Eastbrook Church, first to finish up our current series on the epistle of James and then for a new preaching series on seeing Jesus in Leviticus during Lent.
Yesterday, our preacher at Eastbrook Church, Jenny Ellefson, mentioned the Covenant Prayer of John Wesley, so I posted it at my blog today. It’s a wonderful prayer of consecration.
So great to talk on a video call with a group of ministers from around the country tonight about life and ministry, and to conclude with prayer for one another. It is such a gift to remember we are not alone in our ministry.
Currently reading: Cosmic Liturgy by Hans Urs von Balthasar 📚
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The Calling of God’s People: a word from Micah 6 - In recent days, I have been thinking quite a bit about what it means to be God’s people in God’s world.
So, after many failed attempts to make my way through it, I finally read through The Resurrection of the Son of God by N. T. Wright 📚 This is an amazing book!
“Prayer: A Litany of Humility” - attributed to Rafael Cardinal Merry Del Val: “Jesus! Meek and humble of heart, Hear me. From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver me, Jesus. From the desire of being loved, Deliver me, Jesus…”
Here is “The Weekend Wanderer” for 15 February 2025 - a weekly curated selection of news, stories, resources, and media on the intersection of faith and culture for you to explore through your weekend.
A photographer friend asked me to work with him in an upcoming project by articulating a theology of seeing. If anyone has recommendations on resources to explore as I develop this, I would gladly welcome your input.
Enjoying reading Richard Foster’s classic book, Streams of Living Water with our staff at Eastbrook Church this year. Such a wonderful wide-angle look at spiritual formation and the life of the church. 📚