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There are many different means for evaluating our spiritual growth. Recently I have been looking over a lot of different approaches to spiritual growth and discipleship both for our current series, "The Tree and the Vine," as well as for some work we are doing as a staff on discipleship. Donald Whitney, author and Associate …
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Because of some work we're doing on our staff in relation to discipleship, I have been returning to some classic guidance on spiritual formation and reflecting on how spiritual formation happens in our individual lives and in the church as a whole. Dallas Willard's Renovation of the Heart is a fantastic book on this topic, …
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 Sunday at Eastbrook Church we begin a new preaching series entitled "Growing in Faith: Exploring 2 Peter." 2 Peter is written to a group of early believers in the midst of confusing and trying times. The author invites them to live by faith in Jesus through God’s power and promise until the end …
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In 2018, I had the privilege of publishing an article in The Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, published by Biola University. That article, entitled "Time to Live: Christian Formation through the Christian Year," explores ways in which the rhythms of the Christian, or liturgical, year can subtly form our spiritual lives as Christians. …
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Matthew Erickson 