As a response to my message yesterday at Eastbrook, "The God Who Is Just and Saves," someone sent me a link to a song by Tim Hughes entitled "God of Justice." I first heard this song a few years ago, when at Brooklife Church we focused on these themes and a good friend asked us …
Our Living Church video
Here is a marvelous video that some folks put together to end our "Living Church" series. Thanks to all who helped!! Our Living Church from EastbrookChurch on Vimeo.
NGM video on 7 billion world population
Here is a video that National Geographic Magazine assembled with some interesting statistics related to the milestone of our estimated world population reaching 7 billion people this last month. I utilized this to talk about the nature of the church being to multiply at every level. http://youtu.be/sc4HxPxNrZ0
Going to Great Lengths – video
I opened my message this weekend, "Going to Great Lengths," with a story from the men's 4 x 100m freestyle relay in 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing. I connected this story with God going to great lengths for us in Christ (John 1; Philippians 2), and then paralleled that with Paul's example of going to …
Facedown in God’s Awesome Presence
At Eastbrook this past weekend, I spoke about living with an appropriate fear of the Lord from Proverbs 1:7 and 9:10. There is a hymn from the 19th century, "Immortal, Invisible God Only Wise," that conveys the wondrously awesome presence of the Lord. Here are two verses from that hymn: Immortal, invisible, God only wise, …
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