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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we concluded our preaching series entitled "Essential Church." This series is the first of a three-part exploration of the Book of Acts this Fall, including “Ordinary People in God’s Extraordinary Work” and “Jesus, King of the Nations.” This week in the series I looked at the beginning of Acts 6, …
Continue reading "“Raised and Released” – a message from Acts 6"
This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our new preaching series entitled "Essential Church." This series is the first of a three-part exploration of the Book of Acts this Fall, including “Ordinary People in God’s Extraordinary Work” and “Jesus, King of the Nations.” This week in the series I looked at the final verses of …
Continue reading "“Radically Generous” – a message from Acts 4-5"
This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our new preaching series entitled "Essential Church." This series is the first of a three-part exploration of the Book of Acts this Fall, including “Ordinary People in God’s Extraordinary Work” and “Jesus, King of the Nations.” This week in the series I looked at the final verses of …
This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our preaching series entitled "God's Grace for an Imperfect Church: 1 Corinthians." In this message from 1 Corinthians 4 I took us through Paul's striking words about finding confidence in Christ, freedom from peoples' opinions, and the ability to live according to a different measure from the standards …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, I continued our series entitled "The Messiah's Mission," by looking at Matthew 10:26-11:1. This is the second part of Jesus' commissioning discourse which followed His calling of the twelve apostles. You may want to take a look at Nic Fridenmaker's message from last week, which explores the first part of …
Matthew Erickson 