This past weekend at Eastbrook Church I began our series "Holy Sexuality" with a message entitled "God's View of Sexuality." The message was my attempt to lay the foundations for our next few weeks, by providing a clear approach to the story of God revealed in Scripture and how that relates to our sexuality in contrast to other cultural …
Holy Sexuality
This weekend at Eastbrook we begin a new series entitled "Holy Sexuality." This series looks at broad issues of sexuality from a biblical perspective from Genesis through Revelation, with additional attention to issues of healthy sexuality in marriage, sex and the single Christian, and challenging issues within our own day. We will have special guest, …
Aiming for Second Place
It was a real pleasure for me to speak this past weekend in the worship services at Elmbrook Church as part of their series "Greatest Hits." Not only is my good friend, Jason Webb, the Senior Pastor there, but my first ministry position in Wisconsin was as the Pastor of Collegiate Ministries at Elmbrook (2003-2008). That …
One Church: a final word
This past weekend we concluded the "One Church" series here at Eastbrook Church. It was such a joy for me to have some good friends share the Scripture with us during these past weeks. The irony of this series is that originally it was not planned to theme around unity in God's people, but slowly …
Prayer as the Pathway to Unity
It is great to talk about unity but how do we really achieve it? This past weekend at Eastbrook Church I continued our "One Church" series by exploring that question through Jesus' high priestly prayer in John 17. In my message this weekend, "Prayer as the Pathway to Unity," I specifically looked at John 17:20-26, where Jesus prays for the …
Matthew Erickson 