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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continues our preaching series entitled "Jesus, King of the Nations." This is the third of a three-part series exploring the Book of Acts this Fall, including “Essential Church” and “Ordinary People in God's Extraordinary Work.” This second week of the series we looked at the story of Paul in …
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Noted 20th century missionary and author, E. Stanley Jones relates his missionary experience, including conversations with Mahatma Gandhi in his book The Christ of the Indian Road (1925). Later, Jones wrote a biography of Gandhi, which Martin Luther King, Jr., said strongly influenced his non-violent methods in the civil rights movement. Below I have included a little …
When I was a graduate student, I took a missions class called "Contextualization" as an elective. The class was essentially intended to equip missionaries for understanding the cross-cultural context, or setting, in which they were going to do mission work so that they could share the message of Christ in culturally astute ways. We discussed …
This coming Sunday at Eastbrook Church, I am preaching from Acts 17:16-34 about Paul's ministry in Athens. I find this episode to be one of the most interesting stories in Acts because it is so unlike other examples from Paul's ministry journeys. Here are three observations I have been spending time thinking on: Paul doesn't …
Matthew Erickson 