Matt Erickson
Looking forward to beginning our journey through #Lent as @EastbrookChurch with the “Hungry for God” devotional and sermon series, exploring human longing, soul-deep hungers, and how God satisfies us to re-engage with His world.
The latest edition of “The Weekend Wanderer” is here with Jemar Tisby on race-relations in the church, Tim Keller on post-Christian culture, an historic vote for the UMC, contagious anger and outrage, & more.
It’s hard not to enjoy this Tiny Desk Concert by Ólafur Arnalds at NPR Music.
I’m working on a preaching series related to the good neighbor, so a few questions for you. What do you think it means to be a good neighbor, and why? Also, what are the greatest barriers to neighboring in our world and cultures today?
I came across these words by W. H. Auden in his foreword to Dag Hammarskjöld’s Markings and thought they were worth thinking about further.
I love this prayer of St. Anselm, which is part of my Sunday blogging of historic prayers in the church. This has been a great learning experience for me.
“The point of everything in corporate worship is not personal experience, but building up the church itself.” - Gordon Fee on 1 Corinthians 14 in his NICNT commentary.
Attention “is the essential and necessary means of our growth in knowledge and of any progress that we make on the path toward wisdom. Attention shapes what we know and value, and therefore determines who we are and can become.” - Blum & Hochschild
“In the same books I also read of the Word, God, that his birth came not from human stock, not from nature’s will or man’s, but from God. But I did not read in them that the Word was made flesh and came to dwell among us.” - St. Augustine.
I’ve enjoyed preaching my way through various titles of Christ recently at @EastbrookChurch, including this past weekend exploring Jesus as the Word of God from the Gospel of John, chapter 1.
The latest edition of “The Weekend Wanderer” is here with Jemar Tisby, Roger Olson on evangelical ‘whiteness’, Oneya Okuwobi on multi-ethnic church, Wesley Hill on Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest, and more.
I can never quite get over C. S. Lewis’ quote: “Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” But I love it even more in its context in Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer.
Snow day in Milwaukee means I am getting the chance to work my way through the first draft of the Lenten devotional, “Hungry for God,” for this year at @EastbrookChurch. It’s so great to read so many personal reflections on Scripture from our church community.
The latest edition of the “Weekend Wanderer” is here with Muslim conversions to Christ under ISIS, Instagram Christianity, changes in abortion laws, and so much more.
I appreciate your prayer support as I work on messages for @EastbrookChurch related to Jesus as the Son of God and Jesus as the Word of God as part of our “Name Above All Names” series.
I appreciate your prayer support as I work on messages for @EastbrookChurch related to Jesus as the Son of God and Jesus as the Word of God as part of our “Name Above All Names” series.
Unexpectedly, my message on Jesus as the Son of Man this past weekend at @EastbrookChurch was one of my most enjoyable to prepare and deliver because of the depth and richness in this title of Christ.
Today’s edition of “The Weekend Wanderer” is here with Asia Bibi’s court case, church bombings in the Philippines, Drew Dyck on self-control, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Walter Rauschenbusch, and so much more.
I’m so thankful for some real progress on various projects this morning. Just when I’m celebrating that, the post-lunch distraction demon starts afflicting me, and I throw myself on the mercy of God to strengthen me to stay focused and persevere through the afternoon.
Snow day in Milwaukee means that in-between roof raking and snow shoveling outside I can focus on outstanding writing projects, such as the Lenten devotional for @EastbrookChurch, as well as a few other loose ends.
The latest edition of The Weekend Wanderer is here, featuring Jemar Tisby on MLK, Peter Choi on Whitefield, Lady Gaga vs Mike Pence, Tish Harrison Warren, Robert Alter, and so much more.
The latest edition of The Weekend Wanderer is here with articles on religious persecution in China & Egypt, 10 social critics worth reading, great writers struggling with faith, and so much more!
Writing an essay on the eucharistic theology of Thomas Cranmer for a class I’m taking for fun next week. Then, the due date appears and, suddenly, it feels not only like my work is fun, but also that fun is going to take work.
“Distracted and Divided from the Good Life” - the first in a series of thoughts related to distraction, the undivided hearts, and the good life.