This past weekend at Eastbrook Church we began a new series "Turning to God in Troubling Times" drawn from the book of Habakkuk. I began this week by setting up where we are going in this series and looking at Habakkuk 1:1-4. You can view a video of the message and the accompanying outline below. You can listen …
Turning to God in Troubling Times
Natural disasters… global terrorism…national tensions…difficulties in our personal lives…What do we do when we face troubling times? The Hebrew prophet Habakkuk faced circumstances not altogether very different from us. In his troubling times, Habakkuk raises his voice to God and hears answers he does not expect. This weekend at Eastbrook Church we begin a five-part …
Empowered
This past weekend at Eastbrook Church we continued our series "Activate" by looking at the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit in the activated church and Christian from Acts 2:1-13. I began by highlighting four aspects of the significance of Pentecost in Acts 2, and followed that by looking at four ways in which the Holy Spirit …
Called
"Why do you stand here looking into the sky?" (Acts 1:11). Never has such a unique question spurred such a powerful movement of God as what we see in the beginning of Acts. This past weekend at Eastbrook Church I began a four-part series on the life of God's people entitled "Activate." This first week we talked about …
Activate
Why does the church exist and what are we to be about? This weekend at Eastbrook we begin a new series where we explore some of the basics of missional living for followers of Christ and the church community by looking at Acts 1 & 2. Specifically, we will explore Jesus’ call to be witnesses, the importance of …
Matthew Erickson 