With our current series at Eastbrook Church, "Who Am I?", we are exploring biblical answers to questions about finding our identity in God. This past weekend, in my message "I Am More Than My Image," I spoke to the ways in which we are tempted to live according to false images of ourselves instead of living …
He Qi, Jesus Appears to the Disciples
Thursdays with Murray [Humility, week 3]
Over the next weeks, I am interacting with some of the writings of Andrew Murray. Murray was a South African pastor and missionary during the 19th and early 20th centuries. I am spending time first with his short book Humility. In chapter 3, Murray looks in a more focused way at the humility evident in Jesus' …
Pascal on the Infinite Abyss
I came across this quoted Pascal in his work Pensées as I prepared for my message this past weekend. It is one that I have shared in previous messages, but it is so relevant to our searching for identity: "There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which …
I Am Known by Faith
Why is it so important for us to be authentically known and to authentically know others? Why do relationships feel a tension expressed often in exasperation with phrases like, "You don't even know who I am!" or "I don't even know who you are anymore!" It is because being known and knowing others is one …
Matthew Erickson 