Join us for worship with Eastbrook Church through Eastbrook at Home at 8, 9:30, and 11 AM. This weekend we continue our Advent journey with the series "Family Tree," which explores the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew, chapters 1-2. Join in with the Eastbrook 365 daily devotional for this series here. We also continue in-person …
A Prayer for Stillness (with a word from Thomas à Kempis)
Grant me, O Lord, to know what I ought to know,to love what I ought to love,to praise what delights Thee most,to value what is precious in Thy sight,to hate what is offensive to Thee.Do not suffer me to judge according to the sight of my eyes,nor to pass sentence according to the hearing of …
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Men of Faith and Exile
This past weekend we began a new series at Eastbrook Church entitled "Family Tree." This is the first week in the first part of our extended journey through the Gospel of Matthew. During Advent, we will focus on the genealogy of Jesus found in Matthew, chapters 1 and 2. This message looks at Jesus' connection …
G. K. Chesterton on the Joy of God
In his marvelous book Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton writes one of the most powerful paragraphs on the joy of God. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, 'Do it again'; and the grown-up person does it again until he is …
The Significance of Incidental Healing
Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.” (Luke 8:48) The woman with the issue of blood is an incidental healing; a healing on the way from one miracle to another. In the flow of Jesus' life and ministry, however, she is significant. While it appears as if Jesus' …
Matthew Erickson 