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Every Thursday during Lent, I have posted a poem that I find helpful for deeper engagement with Jesus' journey to the Cross and the significance of Lent. Because I will post something different for Maundy Thursday tomorrow, I'm posting this week's poem one day early. Here is Geoffery Hill's poem "Lachrimae Amantis" from Tenebrae. Geoffrey …
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An article entitled “You’re Not Alone: Top Things People Worry Most About”[1] identified four main categories of things we tend to worry about: money and the futurejob securityrelationshipshealth Many of us can relate to those general categories of worry, even as we all likely have areas of worry that may be specific to us and …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, as we continued our series "Becoming Real" on the Sermon on the Mount, we turned to Matthew 6:25-34. This passage speaks right into one of our most personal and constant issues as human beings: worry. I explore what worry is and what it does and doesn't do. I also spent …
Join us for worship with Eastbrook Church through Eastbrook at Home at 8, 9:30, and 11 AM. This weekend we celebrate Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week. We also continue our preaching series on the Sermon on the Mount, "Becoming Real." This continues our extended journey through the Gospel of Matthew, which began …
But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma …
Matthew Erickson 