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Read Psalm 2 The story of God’s people, Israel, in the Bible feels like a story of people constantly looking for something. When Abraham and Sarah follow God’s call, they end up looking for a child of promise until Isaac is born. When Joseph is sold off into captivity by his brothers, he is looking …
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I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. (Psalm 9:1) Thanksgiving is a day for family to gather and give thanks for what God has done (and is doing). Join us today at 10 AM as the Eastbrook Church family gathers to praise and …
This coming weekend at Eastbrook Church we begin a new preaching series entitled "Songs of the Savior: Psalms for Advent." As you can already tell, this series corresponds to the season of Advent, the start of the liturgical year that leads to our celebration of Christ's birth. The Psalms are referred to as the …
This past weekend at Eastbrook, I concluded our series, "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality," focusing on the fourth chapter of God's Good Story: the Restoration of all things. I spent a lot of attention in this message on Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 15, which draw together Adam and fallen human bodies …
I continued our series, "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality," this past weekend at at Eastbrook Church by turning to the third chapter of God's Good Story: Redemption in Jesus Christ. This message builds off of previous messages on Creation and the Fall, looking at Christ's redeeming work as outlined in Romans 5. …
Matthew Erickson 