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Last week while I was at Fort Wilderness speaking at one of their weeklong family camps, I also had the opportunity to share a devotional with their summer staff. Their theme for the summer is "After the Fire," and is drawn from 1 Kings 19, where Elijah meets with God. It is after the wind, …
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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 5 I took us through Paul's strong words to the Corinthians Church around life and freedom in a message entitled "Living Alive and Free in Christ." You can find the …
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These are my notes from a talk I delivered this past Monday night at our quarterly Leadership Community gathering at Eastbrook Church. We have spent a good deal of energy around the idea of growing in discipleship at Eastbrook, and I wanted to explore how that connects with one of our other vision objectives related …
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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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our series entitled "The Discipleship Journey: Four Examples of Growing with Jesus." I preached this third message of the series entitled "Beginnings of Transformation." In this message I walked through the story of Pentecost in Acts 2, including Peter's message and the ensuing life of the early church …
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Matthew Erickson 