This weekend at Eastbrook Church I continued our series "Still" by looking at what it means to move from the agitated stillness of our humanity into the peaceful stillness of God. I walked through Elijah's story from Mount Carmel to Mount Horeb in 1 Kings 18-19 in order to look at three essentials of encountering God in His stillness. …
Still
In our frenetic world, many of us struggle to find time to do all that must be done in a pace that doesn’t break us. Rest is sometimes a word with which we have a love/hate relationship. The prophet Elijah was a godly person who struggled at a particular season of his life with these …
Wide: Changed with People
I continued our series "Jesus Changes Everything" this weekend at Eastbrook Church by looking at what it means to have wide love like God. I cannot think of a better way to get at what God's wide love looks like than to look at Jesus, who is "the image of the invisible God" (Colossians 1:15). You can watch the message …
Deep: Changed with God
This weekend at Eastbrook Church I continued our series "Jesus Changes Everything" by looking at what it means to enter into the deep life with God. I jumped off from Paul's powerful statements in Philippians 2:12-13 to get a deeper understanding of what Jesus saves us from and what He saves us to. You can watch the message here …
Exile Community
This past weekend at Eastbrook Church I concluded our series "Exiles: A Study of 1 Peter" by looking at chapter 5. I spent a good deal of time talking about the first four verses which offer the distinctive exile understanding of leadership. You can watch the message here or subscribe to our audio podcast, following along with the …
Matthew Erickson 