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Whenever I study for a sermon series, I spend a lot of time far in advance of that sermon series doing research, reading books, thinking, reading articles, reflecting, reading more books, writing, and reading even more. I usually gather all of the resources I use together into a bibliography for each series. Sometimes, I have …
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With our current series at Eastbrook Church, "Who Am I?", we are exploring biblical answers to questions about our identity as human beings. This weekend I addressed the ways in which we feel stuck in life, and how a deeper level of being stuck - or existential dissonance - is the underlying cause of that. I talked …
This past weekend at Eastbrook Church, as we celebrated the resurrection, we launched a new series entitled "Who Am I?: Finding Identity in Christ." My first message in that series, "He Is - I Am," explored how the life, death and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah leads us into the discovery of what it truly means …
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Over the next number of 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. Murray is probably best known for his book With Christ in the School of Prayer, but he has many other valuable works. My writing …
Matthew Erickson 