Last Saturday night was an amazing night for me as I was installed as the new Senior Pastor of Eastbrook Church. It was a powerful night of worship and prayer together as a community with many important mentors and friends joining with us. While there is so much I could say, I wanted to simply …
The Real Good News
“To recover the old, authentic, biblical gospel, and to bring our preaching and practice back into line with it, is perhaps our most pressing present need.” J. I. Packer wrote these words in his 1958 introductory essay for a reprint of John Owen’s The Death of Death in the Death of Christ. While Packer went …
How is God Speaking to You? (week 38)
Every week in 2011, I am putting up this post in order to hear from you about how God is speaking to you as you read the Bible. Some others have joined me to read through the Bible in a year together in 2011 but you can respond to this whether you are doing that …
Grudges
I urge Euodia and Syntyche to iron out their differences and make up. God doesn't want his children holding grudges. (Philippians 4:2, The Message) "God doesn't want his children holding grudges." Yet it is so easy to hold a grudge. Wrongs done, even among those or between those in the Body of Christ, easily submerge …
He Must Increase, I Must Decrease
This Sunday at Eastbrook Church I continued our "Living Church" series with a message entitled "He Must Increase, I Must Decrease." This was really a chance for me to speak about my view on pastoral ministry as a follow-up to my installation service as Senior Pastor of Eastbrook on Saturday night, September 17th. My message …
Matthew Erickson 