This past Sunday, May 30, my message at Brooklife was entitled "Paralyzed," drawing from the story of Jesus healing the paralytic in Matthew 9:1-8. While much could be said from this passage, I wanted to focus in first on the authority Jesus has, which is a theme in the Gospel of Matthew, especially from the …
The Trust I Need
This past Sunday was an interesting one at Brooklife. I preached an unplanned message out of Proverbs called "The Trust I Need." Speaking from my own life experience with God, I shared two lessons about life with God that I have learned from Proverbs: Proverbs 1:7: "Fear of the Lord" means having a big picture …
3 Thoughts for My Church from #Exponential 2010
Yesterday, I talked with some of our church leaders about things we learned from attending the Exponential 2010 Conference. Here are three things that are shaping how I think about our church context at Brooklife now: We must be clear on vision, strategy, values, and aims: Through Will Mancini's pre-conference workshop, I was challenged to …
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The Words I Need
Yesterday at Brooklife I spoke from Proverbs on the topic of words in our series "The Life I Need." My main idea was: we need to speak the truth without deceit from our hearts. I pulled together three different verses from Proverbs in order to get at this main idea: Proverbs 12:19 - “Truthful lips …
The Cross…What It Demands of Me
While I am a little belated in posting this, you can listen to the message I gave at Brooklife Church on March 28th (Palm Sunday) entitled "The Cross...What It Demands of Me." This was the third of four messages in a series at Brooklife called "The Cross." I was speaking from Luke 9:23-26, where Jesus …
Matthew Erickson 