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This coming Sunday at Eastbrook Church we begin a new preaching series entitled “Essential Church." This series is the first of a three-part exploration of the Book of Acts this Fall at Eastbrook, including two other series “Ordinary People in God’s Extraordinary Work” and "Jesus, King of the Nations." In "Essential Church" we will walk …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we concluded our series entitled "The Discipleship Journey: Four Examples of Growing with Jesus." Pastor Jim Caler preached this fourth and final message of the series entitled "Growing and Growing." In this message Jim reflected on the life of the early church as recorded in Acts 4. You can find …
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We read about the generosity of the early Jerusalem church in Acts 4: “And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them. ” (Acts 4:33-34) The result of God’s grace at work within the church was a generosity that was unparalleled by those around them. …
Continuing our "Roots" series this past weekend at Eastbrook Church, I took us into an exploration of "Sacrificial Generosity." No one can read the description of the early church in Acts 2:42-47 and Acts 4:32-37 without being deeply moved and challenged. What was it in this early church experiment in Jerusalem that we can learn …
I continued our series on prayer, "Great Prayers of the Bible", at Eastbrook Church this past weekend by looking at four themes on prayer from the early church in the book of Acts. I try not have a romanticized view of the early church that leads into an impulse to "recover the true church." However, I …
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Matthew Erickson 