Beginning this weekend with our celebration of Jesus' resurrection, we begin a new series at Eastbrook entitled "Resurrection Hope." Over the next five weeks we will explore the questions: "why is the resurrection so important to Christianity?" and "what does it mean for us today?" The series will be rooted in 1 Corinthians 15. April 19/20 - "Resurrection …
||40days|| week seven: Jesus Died
Jesus walked into Jerusalem hailed as a king. Within a few days, the crowd was calling for His execution: "Take Him away! Take Him away! Crucify Him!" (John 19:15). A thorny crown fiercely adorned His kingly head (19:2). Purple robes signaled His royalty as soldiers spit on Him, slapped Him and mocked Him (19:3). But …
||40days|| week one: a journey like Jesus
Can you imagine 40 days of fasting and prayer in the wilderness? That was Jesus' journey as recorded in the Gospels. As it says in Mark 1:12-13: "At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, …
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||40days|| week one: a journey like Israel
When Israel rebelled against God on the verge of Canaan, the land of promise, God sent them on a 40 year journey in the wilderness. You can read about that journey in Numbers 13 and 14. It was a journey of punishment for sin. It was a journey of purification from rebellion. It was a …
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||40days|| week one: a journey
Today we begin a journey. A forty day journey to the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is a journey that mirrors the forty days when rain fell on the earth to purge it from sin and injustice, while Noah and his family were saved in the ark (Genesis 7:12). It is a journey …
Matthew Erickson 