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This coming Sunday at Eastbrook Church we begin a new preaching series entitled "Fractured." This will be the second of a two-part series on Genesis, chapters 1-11. This series explores Genesis 4-11, picking up where our earlier series, "In the Beginning," left off. Genesis is a book of beginnings, setting the stage for all that …
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Every year on this day set aside for celebrating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., I make time to listen to or read his famous "I Have a Dream Speech." I encourage you today to read the speech or watch (below) the roughly seventeen-minute speech that King gave over fifty years ago. …
This coming Sunday at Eastbrook Church we begin a new preaching series entitled "In the Beginning," which will be the first of a two-part series on Genesis, chapters 1-11. This series explores Genesis 1-3. Genesis is a book of beginnings, setting the stage for all that comes afterwards not only in that book but in …
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This coming Sunday at Eastbrook Church we begin our journey of Advent as well as a new preaching series entitled "Canticles of Christmas." This series explores the prayers found in the Gospel of Luke, chapters 1-2, as doorways into the celebration of Advent and key theological revelations of God’s plan in Christ. Here are the …
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This coming Sunday at Eastbrook Church we begin a new preaching series entitled "Hope Rising: 1 Thessalonians for Today." The past few years have brought many people to the edge of life, leading some to say we are dealing with a crisis of hope. How do we live in the face of a crisis of …
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Matthew Erickson 