Lord… We thank you for your church, founded upon your Word, that challenges us to do more than sing and pray, but go out and work as though the very answer to our prayers depended on us and not upon you. Help us to realize that humanity was created to shine like the stars and …
Confession of St Peter
Distracted and Divided from the Good Life
In an article entitled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr wrote: Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case any …
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The Promised Lamb of God [Name Above All Names]
I continued our new series, "Name Above All Names," this past weekend at Eastbrook Church. This series began with our Christmas celebration of Jesus as the light of the world, continued in the last two weekends with Jesus as "Friend of Sinners" and "The Gate" (Thanks, Pastor Dan Ryan!), and now turns to Jesus as the "Promised …
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A Prayer of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Dear Jesus, help me to spread Thy fragrance everywhere I go. Flood my soul with Thy spirit and love. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that all my life may only be a radiance of Thine. Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may …
Matthew Erickson 