As I have been blogging this week about love, I cannot help but come back to Jesus' summation of the life with God as one of love. He said it this way: And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and …
Created by Love
The Bible tells us that God created the world. If you believe the Bible contains the truth of God, such a statement is enough for you. However, if you do not believe the Bible contains the truth of God, then you may be more skeptical about such a statement.Consider with me a few things about …
Practical Ways to Put Love Into Action
This past weekend at Eastbrook Church, I spoke about "Beginning to Live with Love." Here is a list of practical suggestions I'd like to offer on how we can put love into action: Ask God to reveal a material need in the life of someone around you, and then respond by meeting that need no …
Where is the Source of Love?
During my college years, I took a trip to the mountains of Honduras to help install a gravity-fed water system in three villages. Working alongside the local people, we dug channels, laying PVC piping in long circuits from the tops of the mountains down to each village. Why did we do this? The water they were …
Beginning to Live with Love
This weekend at Eastbrook Church we concluded our series "Beginning to Live." My message this week was called "Beginning to Live with Love" and focused on how the resurrection of Jesus reveals the love of God while also bringing power into our lives to love others. I spoke from 1 Corinthians 13, which is a very familiar …
Matthew Erickson 