This coming weekend at Eastbrook Church we begin a new part of our series on the Gospel of John called "The Passion." Over the next three weeks (including Good Friday), we will walk with Jesus on His journey to Jerusalem and the Cross, and on into the Resurrection. If you want to read along with …
To the Next Generation
Throughout Deuteronomy, God speaks of the challenge for the next generation to pick up the baton of faith in following Him. In the midst of His words about gaining victory over the nations in Canaan, God calls the current generation to worship and serve Him alone: Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn …
How is God Speaking to You? (week 14)
I love hearing about what God is doing in people's lives. It is an amazing privilege. Every day, God is at work in our world and, more personally, in our lives. He is waiting to talk with us. He is waiting to lead us into aspects of life that we never could have imagined. A …
Hudson Taylor on God’s Work
Here is a statement by Hudson Taylor that has been ringing through my mind in the last week when I read it in the book, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret. Taylor was a late 19th and early 20th century missionary in China, and founder of the China Inland Mission (now OMF). His goal was to move …
Cohesion – a fragment
if you were to lay on your stomach in the snow and focus your eyes upon the white blanket form, you would see intricate, interlocking shelves of snow delicately swept into place by wind. in time, the individual flakes melt and meld to join together in cohesive unity. their crystalline complexity is not lost but …
Matthew Erickson 