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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we began a new preaching series entitled "In the Beginning," drawn from Genesis 1-3. This is the first part of a two-part series on Genesis 1-11 that will stretch from January through Lent up to Easter. This first week of the series I preached from Genesis 1:1-2 on the revelation …
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Join us for worship with Eastbrook Church through Eastbrook at Home at 8, 9:30, and 11 AM. This weekend we begin a new preaching series entitled "In the Beginning" drawn from Genesis 1-3. Here is a prayer for this Sunday, which celebrates the baptism of Jesus, from The Book of Common Prayer: Eternal Father, at …
This coming Sunday at Eastbrook Church we begin a new preaching series entitled "In the Beginning," which will be the first of a two-part series on Genesis, chapters 1-11. This series explores Genesis 1-3. Genesis is a book of beginnings, setting the stage for all that comes afterwards not only in that book but in …
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"Restore us again, O Lord God of hosts;show the light of your countenance,and we shall be whole." (Psalm 80:19, New Coverdale Psalter) You, who are beyond me yet near me,who are at One with Yourself,yet interacting with a confused world:speak wholeness into me. You, who are God of all and over all,who are holy, holy, …
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I've enjoyed posting poetry series themed around the Christian year in the past couple of years (see "Poetry for Lent" and "Poetry for Easter"). I will continue that with a series called "Poetry for Ordinary Time." Ordinary time includes two sections of the church year between Christmastide and Lent and Easter and Advent. The word …
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Matthew Erickson 