Here are the discussion questions that accompany my message, "Empowered," from this past weekend at Eastbrook Church. This is the third part of our series, "Activate," where we are looking at what it means to be individual Christians and a local church set into motion by God's power and presence for God's work in the world. Discussion Questions: …
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 …
William Borden – an activated Christian
This past weekend in my message, "Called,"the first part of our Activate series at Eastbrook Church, I mentioned the story of William Borden, whose short life is a powerful example of someone called to Jesus and His Kingdom, who then lives for the mission of God by the Holy Spirit's power. Much of what I …
Called (discussion questions)
Here are the discussion questions that accompany my message, "Called," from this past weekend at Eastbrook Church. This is the first part of our series, "Activate," where we are looking at what it means to be individual Christians and a local church set into motion by God's power and presence for God's work in the world. Discussion …
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 …
Matthew Erickson 