This weekend at Eastbrook Church I continued our series, "Jesus on the Move," with a messaged entitled, "Sending" from Luke 9:1-6, 57-62; and 10:1-24. These texts describe the sending out of the Twelve apostles and the seventy-two, with a brief description of three challenges of discipleship. I largely focused on apostleship and what it means that there are …
Sunday Prayer 38
You are holy, holy, holy, Lord, the God of strength and righteousness. Isaiah the prophet fell down before You, undone by his sin in Your presence. So, too, we fall before You in humbled awe, taking Simon Peter's words into our mouths: "Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful." Sodom and Gomorrah fell down …
Henri Nouwen on Compassion
Here is a quotation from Henri Nouwen that I shared in my message, "Compassion," this past weekend: God is a compassionate God. That is the good news brought to us in and through Jesus Christ. He is God-with-us, who finds nothing human alien and who lives in solidarity with us. He is a servant God …
Compassion (discussion questions)
Here are the discussion questions that accompany my message, "Compassion," from this past weekend at Eastbrook Church. This is part of our series, "Jesus on the Move." The text for this week are from Luke 8:40-56 and 9:37-43. Discussion Questions: When did you experience compassion from someone directly or observe it in someone else? We …
Compassion
This weekend at Eastbrook Church I continued our series, "Jesus on the Move," with a messaged entitled, "Compassion" from Luke 8:40-56 and 9:37-43. These three stories from two chapters in Luke show us the wonder-working power of Jesus, but that wasn't the focus of my message. Instead, I called us to step back and see the …
Matthew Erickson 