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This weekend at Eastbrook Church we began a new preaching series entitled "God in the Ruins: The Message of the Minor Prophets." At the end of the Hebrew Bible, our Old Testament, we find a collection of twelve small, yet powerful, books known as the Minor Prophets or “the Book of the Twelve.” The title …
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The second thought of my reflections from reading Scripture the other day is this: Jesus is the Lamb. In Revelation chapter five, when the elder directs John to see the "Lion of Judah" who is alone worthy to open the scroll of God, John sees something quite unexpected. He does not see a lion at …
When reading Scripture the other day, there were two parallel thoughts that leaped out of Amos and Revelation to capture my mind. The first is this: Jesus is the Lion. The LORD roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers. (Amos 1:1) The …
Matthew Erickson 