In her message, "God of the Displaced Ones," this past weekend at Eastbrook Church, Jenny Yang went through a lot of notes on displaced people, including statistics, figures, quotes and more that I wanted to share here. A total of 65.3 million people were displaced at the end of 2015. It is the first time …
God of the Displaced Ones
Two weekends ago, I began a new series entitled "God in Blank Spaces." The idea of this series is to connect our thinking about who God is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit with what God does in our world. One question I pondered quite a bit is this: if God is who we say …
What is our picture of Jesus?
We must examine the picture of Jesus that we have in our minds. Many times, we have a sentimentalized picture of Jesus. It is a hallmark picture of Jesus that is not reflective of the Jesus of the Gospels. We idealize and romanticize the person and work of Jesus to the point where He is …
God of the Little Ones
This past weekend, we continued our series, "God in Blank Spaces," at Eastbrook Church by looking at Matthew 19:13-15 on Jesus and the little children. In a world where 353,00 babies are born every day and one new child is born every 8 seconds in our country, how is God at work? In Jesus' day and time, …
Children as a Symbol of Hope
As I prepared for my message from this past weekend, "God of the Little Ones," I read a lot of different material. In returning to Stanley Hauerwas' A Community of Character, I was seized by the power of his comments on children, not only in relation to parents but also in terms of the broader community …
