As we continued our series, "God in the Ruins: The Message of the Minor Prophets," this past weekend at Eastbrook I walked us through the prophet Joel. Joel is an often overlooked book of the Bible, although a couple of passages are fairly familiar because of their connection with historic markers in the church year: Ash …
Hosea, part 2 [God in the Ruins]
This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our series, "God in the Ruins: The Message of the Minor Prophets," by looking at the second part of Hosea, chapters 4-14. The challenge of preaching a message on eleven chapters is that you really have to choose which way to go and what to focus on. Based …
Hosea, part 1 [God in the Ruins]
This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our series, "God in the Ruins: The Message of the Minor Prophets." My wife, Kelly, and I co-preached a message on the first three chapters of the prophet Hosea. Hosea is an interesting book of the Bible, and one of the longest of these shorter prophetic books. Hosea …
God in the Ruins: The Message of the Minor Prophets
This weekend at Eastbrook Church we began a new preaching series entitled "God in the Ruins: The Message of the Minor Prophets." At the end of the Hebrew Bible, our Old Testament, we find a collection of twelve small, yet powerful, books known as the Minor Prophets or “the Book of the Twelve.” The title …
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Looking Back and Stepping Forward: a new year’s message
This past weekend at Eastbrook, I preached a message, "Looking Back and Stepping Forward," which was a stand-alone message for the new year. I shared some practices - looking back at the past year and stepping forward into the new year - that have helped me most over the years to close out one …
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Matthew Erickson 