“The Tree and the Vine” – a new series for Lent at Eastbrook Church

This coming Sunday at Eastbrook Church we begin a new preaching series for Lent entitled “The Tree and the Vine.” This series explores themes within Psalm 1 and John as a way to enter into the season of Lent. The Bible is filled with earthy imagery, particularly imagery rooted in plant life. Psalm 1 pictures the good life as a flourishing tree. In John 15, Jesus pictures the good life as one rooted in God’s vine. This series explores these organic images to help us picture the life with God.

This also begins our Lenten series and devotional journey, “The Tree and the Vine,” written by the Eastbrook community that accompanies our new sermon series. You can access the devotional online, as a downloadable PDF, via the Eastbrook app, or through a limited-run of paper copies. I’ve included the introduction that I wrote for the devotional below.

Here are the week-by-week schedule for this series:

February 18 – “The Planted Life” – text: Psalm 1:1-3; John 15

February 25 – “The Gift of Doubt” – text: John 15:1-7, 9-15

March 3 – “The Nourished Life” – text: Psalm 1:2; John 15:3-7 [communion Sunday]

March 10 – “The Pruned Life” – text: John 15:2, 6; Psalm 1:4

March 17 – “The Fruitful Life” – text: Psalm 1:3; John 15:1-8, 16-17

March 25 – “The Tree and the Vine” – text: Psalm 1 and John 15:1-17 [Palm Sunday]