“Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?” – a message from Ecclesiastes 8 by Greg Marshall

This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our preaching series "The Skeptic's Guide to Life with God: Ecclesiastes." Greg Marshall preached a message entitled “Why do bad things happen to good people?” from Ecclesiastes 8. Greg particularly focused on Ecclesiastes 8:14-15: "There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what …

Malcolm Guite, “The baptism of Christ” [Poetry for Epiphany]

I’ve enjoyed posting poetry series themed around the Christian year recently (see “Poetry for Lent,” “Poetry for Easter,“ and "Poetry for Ordinary Time"). As a follow-up to the "Poetry for Advent" and "Poetry for Christmas" series, I am continuing that theme with a series called “Poetry for Epiphany.” The season of Epiphany, runs from the …

Open Doors’ World Watch List 2024

Open Doors released the World Watch List 2024, an annual resource "ranking...the 50 countries where Christians face the most extreme persecution." Open Doors has been tracking religious persecution of Christians since the 1970s and their approach to the work is well-informed and reliable. Religious persecution affects many religious groups and not just Christians, but Open Doors …