"The Weekend Wanderer" is a weekly curated selection of news, stories, resources, and media on the intersection of faith and culture for you to explore through your weekend. Wander through these links however you like and in any order you like. Disclaimer: I do not necessarily agree with all the views expressed within these articles …
Holy Week 2025 at Eastbrook Church
We hope to see you this Holy Week at Eastbrook Church as we enter into the journey of Jesus' last week leading to the Cross and then the Resurrection. Thursday, April 17 · 7 pm · Fellowship Hall · In Person OnlyJoin us in person on Maundy Thursday (April 17) as we remember Christ’s Last …
Christ is With Us in Our Suffering: Brian Zahnd on the Presence of Christ with Us at All Times
While I was working on my message for this past weekend, "When Trouble Comes" from James 1:1-18, I was also reading Brian Zahnd's newer book The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross. Zahnd's description of how Jesus' crucifixion opens us to the presence of Christ with us at all times, even …
Resurrection and Fear
After Jesus rose from the grave, the Apostle John records four meetings Jesus has with people. The first of these is Jesus' appearance in the locked room to His disciples, and I want to bring attention to that today. It reads: On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were …
Love to the Uttermost
"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love." (John 15:9) The Father's love is greater than we understand. In a few short hours after this teaching from Jesus, the disciples would see with shocking clarity how far God would go to display divine love as Jesus went …
Matthew Erickson 