What happens when individual believers and the church together live at the intersection of the Great Commandment and the Great Commission, of words and deeds, of proclamation and demonstration of the Gospel? I'll tell you what...it's dangerous and attractive faith. This is the heart of what I talked about in my message this past weekend, "Living …
Mark DeYmaz on Loving Your Neighborhood
This past weekend at Eastbrook Church, guest speaker Mark DeYmaz kicked off our series "Love Your Neighborhood" with a powerful and challenging message. Mark is the Pastor at Mosaic Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the founder of the Mosaix Global Network, a network of churches, organizations, and leaders seeking to strengthen multi-ethnic churches and …
Love Your Neighborhood
Beginning this weekend, May 31 & June 1, we start a new series at Eastbrook entitled "Love Your Neighborhood." Jesus said we should love our neighbor as ourselves. What does it mean to take that to the streets literally by loving those around us where we live, work, and play? What does it mean for us as …
Oscar Muriu on Viral Leadership
This week, our Leadership Team at Eastbrook viewed an inspiring and informative message by Oscar Muriu, Senior Pastor at Nairobi Chapel (Nairobi, Kenya). The message was entitled "Viral Leadership: Multiplying Impact Exponentially" and was given in August 2013 at the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit. In this message, Muriu shares his five convictions about leadership development: The …
Resources for Resurrection Hope
From time to time people ask me what resources I utilize in preparing sermons or series. This was something I encountered quite a bit with the series we just finished at Eastbrook, "Resurrection Hope," on 1 Corinthians 15. So, let me pull aside the veil a little bit on how I approached five weeks on …
Matthew Erickson 