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This coming weekend at Eastbrook Church we began a new preaching series entitled "The Final Word: Knowing Christ through Hebrews." Over the course of the next several months we will steadily walk through the entire book of Hebrews, drawing our attention to Jesus Christ and learning about the life of faith. The title of the …
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Like many other churches, this past weekend at Eastbrook we had to make a major shift in our gathering due to the concerns related to COVID-19 and coronavirus. This was accentuated by the declaration of a public health emergency in our state, and the recommendation that groups over 250 no longer meet. We switched to …
On Monday, the team at Preaching Today invited me and a number of others to write something related to our current situation. That invitation spawned the article, "The Ministry of Preaching in the Time of COVID-19." You can read the entire article here, but I'm including an excerpt below. The last few weeks have seen …
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This past weekend, I continued our series "God in the Ruins: The Message of the Minor Prophets" at Eastbrook Church by looking at the prophet Habakkuk. You can watch the message here. I also wanted to share a five-week series I did on the book of Habakkuk in 2015 entitled "Turning to God in Troubling …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook I continued our series on the message of the minor prophets, "God in the Ruins," by looking at the prophet Nahum. Nahum is one of those books that can feel especially "minor" in the minor prophets, with a tough message for a very historically specific context. Nahum is one of …
Matthew Erickson 