Mar 1, 2021 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
In Great Measure Eric H Janzen Sometimes you don’t know what will happen to you when you sit down, coffee in hand, to spend some time reading. You can’t predict how a certain phrase or idea may abruptly take hold of your mind and heart, find a space to live, and never...
Nov 27, 2020 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
What a year. What a crazy, tumultuous year! I could spend a lot of words describing this past year but I know I don’t need to. We all know. In one way or another, every one of us has reached the crest of a wind-driven wave and followed the falling curl into the...
Jan 8, 2019 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
A question I often hear these days is, “Why should we go to church?” While this question might stir some uncomfortable feelings in pastors, ministers, denominational leaders, and others, it is actually an excellent question. In a post-Christendom era, the very concept...
Oct 10, 2018 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
Often the Lord and I visit as I walk. I’m beginning to think of my prayer walks as prayer stories and the following arose from one of those stories. It was a clear sky and warm day as I walked home from work, praying, as is my custom, and attempting to find that place...
Jul 2, 2018 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
In communion, we partake of the new human nature of Jesus Christ, the second Adam. When we partake of the bread it his body, his new human nature, filled with uncorrupted Life which is offered to our human nature. His body, this mysterious bread, thus enters our human...
Feb 13, 2018 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
Brad Jersak and Andrew Klager recently posted a wonderful conversation on the Jesus Prayer, focusing in on the last phrase, ‘me, a sinner.’ The Jesus Prayer is very important to me. It has been central to my prayer life for a number of years now. I have chewed on it,...
