Matthew van Maastricht

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— Letters to My Son: The Islands In Your Mind On the (Protestant) Recovery of the Rite of Confession A Close Encounter of the Divine Kind On Christian Healing and Curing and Christian Rites The Vine Letters to My Son: If Only I Could Bubble Wrap the World Guidance and the Spiritual Life Letters to My Son on Life and Faith: Introduction “But That’s So Catholic!” Leaning into Liminality The Beauty of Distraction Trampling Down Death By Death: An Easter Reflection On the Weekly Celebration of the Eucharist To Be Leaven For the Future My Ecumenical Manifesto and a Plea to the Reformed Church in America Look at the Child Restoration Amidst the Ruins The Great Multitude of the Saints Life from the Lifeless God the Liberator The Thin Place of Liminality Ordinary Scene in an Extraordinary Story Sarah Laughs and Hagar Weeps Laughable Hope The Creative Space of Chaos I’m just regular dust: A reflection on Ash Wednesday Why are you still a follower of Jesus? A Wonky Advent Wreath The Light that Follows the Darkness: A Funeral Meditation Echoes of 1857 To be Reformed is About Belonging The Hidden Life To Our Home’s New Owner Rethinking the Artificial Binary Digressions in Church Polity: The Reformed Church and Its Constitution Digressions in Church Polity: There are no members of the Reformed Church in America The tension of the green season Wait…Where are we going? The Redemptive Wilderness Not Always Calm and Bright Finding Hope Amidst Tragedy The Voice That Wakes the Dead Pierced with Grace God’s Graciously Stubborn Refusal to Give Up The Tragically Unfinished Work of Reconciliation Knocking in the Night Up from the grave The unfair mercy of God Bring Me Your Nothing The Siren Song of Success Leaning into the Wilderness One Word for 2015: Wonder The Deception of Carols Finding Our Way From Family Churches to Church Families Fear or Hope? The Ordinary Ones A letter to Martin Luther on Reformation Day Blessed are the Autumn Daisies After God’s Own Heart On Litmust Tests and a Fractured Witness From Beyond the River The Ten Words On the Death of a Church Future Glory Hump Day Hymns: ‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus Number Worship and Strategic Salvation Why I Welcome the Demise of Christendom Wounds in the Body of Christ When you can’t find the words When God sits at your bedside In the Bleak Midwinter The Fourth Magus Autumn Stepping Into the Unknown Choosing the Better Part Hump Day Hymns: Welcome, Sweet Day of Rest Turning Faces Deep seated pieties Assembling the church with young adults at the table Reaching Into the Dark Where have I been? Hump Day Hymns: Christian, Dost Thou See Them Faithful Foreigners Hump Day Hymns: Come, Lord, and Tarry Not Life on a State Highway Spectator or Witness The Future Hope to Live Now Curiosity on a Sunny Saturday Morning Hump Day Hymns: O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go The Simplest and Most Difficult Commandment Speaking of Sin Hump Day Hymns: O Thou from whom all goodness flows Waiting for the Mail Carrier Hump Day Hymns: If Christ is mine, then all is mine “Do you love me?” – Sunday’s Sermon Gazing out the window Hump Day Hymns: Father, whate’er of earthly bliss Seeing with New Eyes Pulling Back the Cobwebs Hump Day Hymns: Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed Hump Day Hymns – Lent edition: The Glory of These Forty Days Tuesdays are for Thanks: Coffee Hump Day Hymns: Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me Tuesdays are for Thanks: Snow The Saturday Demon Hump Day Hymns: Dear Refuge of My Weary Soul Tuesdays are for Thanks: City Reformed Church Hump Day Hymns: Lord, as Thou Wilt, Deal Thou with Me A Brush With Grace Hump Day Hymns: Approach, My Soul, the Mercy Seat Why I Write Hump Day Hymns: Sometimes a Light Surprises Looking Back and Looking Forward Christmas in a train station The light shines On not being afraid Hump Day Hymns {Advent Edition}: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Hurry as an Enemy of Faith Advent in Tension A Fresh Start Hump Day Hymns {Advent Edition}: Comfort, Comfort You My People “‘…for I am the LORD who heals you.’” Hump Day Hymns: Lord, We Confess Our Numerous Faults Being faithful with my little Hump Day Hymns: My Hope is Built on Nothing Less When there is nothing to say Hump Day Hymns: What God Ordains is Always Good Meeting God at Lake Michigan When the loss feels more significant than the gain Living with what used to be Hump Day Hymns: Jesus, Lover of My Soul Reflections on One Year of Ordained Ministry When it All Comes Together Hump Day Hymns: With Broken Heart and Contrite Sigh this building is a mess Marginalia of a Past Life Hump Day Hymns: Abide with Me “…God is bigger than the bogeyman…” Hump-Day Hymns: For All the Saints Who from Their Labors Rest Is This What it is Like? …God First Loved Us A Cross in my Hand “…With Sighs Too Deep for Words” Earnestly Praying for Peace Simple Things Like Coffee The Minister as Particular Theologian Shelter From the Rain Hump-Day Hymns: Here, O My Lord, I See Thee Face to Face Home Hump-Day Hymns: Lord, I Want to Be a Christian The Idea of Brokenness is Great… Striving With God Hump-Day Hymns: Be Still, My Soul Denominational Unity? Hump-Day Hymns: Blest Be the Tie That Binds How the Teacher Becomes the Student Hump-Day Hymns: The Doxology My Only Comfort I’m Guest Blogging Today! That Which Gives Us Value Hump-Day Hymns: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say I almost gave up on someone, and I’m glad I didn’t Sin and Restoration, Patriarchy and Mutuality Hump-Day Hymns: Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken Connection with God in the Midst of Concrete and Steel The City and the Redemption of Creation On Being Dried Up Examining Students of Theology Our Greatest Need? Hope Get up (or sit down) and eat! Blogging and Ministry On Being a Doubter-Sensitive Church Water From the Rock First Words in Worship Ministry is terrific…or is it terrible? “Being” as witness to the resurrection The Rev. Lawn Mower Accepting Jesus as Personal Savior? (Part 2) Accepting Jesus as Personal Savior? (Part 1) Evangeli-mainline-icalism The Spirituality of Public Transportation Reflections on my faith and the Church My Un-Cool Church “Lord, teach us to pray…” Pastoral Imagination The Most Important Task of a Minister (Part Two) The Most Important Task of a Minister (Part One) Why a Reformed Presence is Important in the City Stewardship in the Inner City “Remember, you are dust…” Walking the Neighborhood Recovering Evangelism Writing Letters Sitting In My Office Why I’m Avoiding Christmas Music During Advent Advent in a Wintry Eschatological Perspective

 

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