We concluded our series, "Jesus at the Center," this past weekend at Eastbrook Church by looking at Colossians 4:2-18. You can watch the message here, following along with the outline below. You can also follow the entire series at our web-site, through the Eastbrook app, or through our audio podcast. Devoted with Words (Colossians 4:2-6) Words with …
Sunday Prayer 1
Lord, we are here listening for You whose Voice thunders across the oceans and shatters the trees, which brings life and can snuff it out we are here present and waiting attending like servants to a master please, Lord, speak to us guide, Lord lead, Lord strengthen, Lord in Your ways and for Your glory …
Relationships with Jesus at the Center (discussion questions)
Here are the discussion questions that accompany my message, "Relationships with Jesus at the Center," from this past weekend at Eastbrook Church. This is part of our series, "Jesus at the Center," from the book of Colossians. This week we looked at Colossians 3:18-4:1. Discussion Questions: What changed in your life most dramatically after you became a …
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Relationships with Jesus at the Center
This past weekend at Eastbrook Church we continued our series, "Jesus at the Center," by looking at a series of relationships highlighted in Colossians 3:18-4:1. While I wanted to give appropriate attention to the actual relationships, I also wanted to speak to the background behind these relationships, which fit within a framework often referred to as household codes. …
Solzhenitsyn on Life, Death, and Humanism
I came across this stunning paragraph from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 1978 commencement address to Harvard University when re-reading Stanley Hauerwas' book A Community of Character the other day. As I was working on my message from this past weekend at Eastbrook, I found Solzhenitsyn's words a helpful encouragement for the right direction I was going. If humanism were …
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