This past weekend at Eastbrook, Pastor Ruth Carver continued our preaching series, "Who Do You Say I Am?", by exploring the story of Jesus and the Canaanite Woman in Matthew 15:21-28. This is both a fascinating and challenging text, which at face value may seem like Jesus is hard and ethnocentric, but actually brings a …
What is All Saints Day?: a brief summary
Today, November 1, we celebrate All Saints Day. All Saints Day is a feast day in the church year that follows All Hallow's Eve (October 31). All Saints Day offers an opportunity to remember all those saints who have gone before us in the faith and to celebrate the reality that we stand amidst a …
Eastbrook at Home – October 31, 2021
Join us for worship with Eastbrook Church through Eastbrook at Home at 8, 9:30, and 11 AM. This weekend we continue our series, "Who Do You Say I Am?," as Pastor Ruth Carver preaches from Matthew 15:21-28 about Jesus' encounter with a Canaanite woman, which shows us some very interesting things about the nature of …
Malcolm Guite, “A Sonnet for All Saints Day” [Poetry for Ordinary Time]
I've enjoyed posting poetry series themed around the Christian year in the past couple of years (see "Poetry for Lent" and "Poetry for Easter"). I will continue that with a series called "Poetry for Ordinary Time." Ordinary time includes two sections of the church year between Christmastide and Lent and Easter and Advent. The word …
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The Field of Pastoral Ministry: Eugene Peterson on the congregation as topsoil [Under the Unpredictable Plant 4]
I recently re-read Eugene Peterson's classic book on pastoral ministry based in the life of Jonah, Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness (Eerdmans, 1992). There is so much in this book, but I am merely sharing a few pieces that have stuck out powerfully to me in this particular season of time. …
Matthew Erickson 