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Let Your goodness, Lord, appear to us, that we, made in your image, conform ourselves to it. In our own strength we cannot imitate Your majesty, power, and wonder, nor is it fitting for us to try. But Your mercy reaches from the heavens through the clouds to the earth below. You have come to …
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[This is the devotional I wrote for the first week of Eastbrook Church's Advent 2018 devotional. Join in with the daily journey through Advent here.] “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting …
As we begin Advent this coming weekend at Eastbrook Church, I wanted to invite you to join us for the newly reformatted Advent Worship Night on Friday, November 30, at 6:30 PM. The gathering will begin in the Worship Hall with a short program and a time of worship, followed by an optional craft making an …
My message at Eastbrook's Christmas Eve services was entitled "The Gift We Really Need." You can watch the video below or through the Eastbrook app, listen to it via our audio podcast, or read the entire text below the video. Join us for our next sermon series beginning in January, "Unschackled," from the letter of the Apostle Paul …
Here is a poem that I wrote a few years back in which I reflect upon the wonder and mystery of the incarnation. Here I weave together some phrases from the old hymn "What Child Is This?" with my own reflective wonder upon Jesus' birth. “A virgin shall conceive and bear a son”: myth, mystery, …
Matthew Erickson 