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Near the end of the book Renovation of the Church: What Happens When a Seeker Church Discovers Spiritual Formation, Kent Carlson summarizes some of his deepest concern about the challenges of the church in North America. While I'm not sure I agree with his final driving metaphor about "wineskins" bursting all over the place, I do …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook Church, I continued a two-part reflection on the nature of the church. My working title for this series is "The Multi-Everything Church," which is an outworking of our vision to become a Revelation 7:9-10 type of church with attention to some other aspects beyond multi-ethnicity. Following last weekend's message on the …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook Church, I began a two-part reflection on the nature of the church. My working title for this series is "The Multi-Everything Church," which is an outworking of our vision to become a Revelation 7:9-10 type of church with attention to some other aspects beyond multi-ethnicity. This weekend's message looks at the image …
I began our new series, "The Real Jesus," this weekend at Eastbrook Church with a message on Jesus as the Son of God. Since this series is rooted in the Gospel of Mark, the central text was Mark 1:1-13. You can listen to the message here at the Eastbrook web-site. You can also subscribe to …
I concluded our "Pave the Way" series at Eastbrook Church this weekend with the message, "We'll Leave the Light On: Becoming a Radically Welcoming Church." The main point of the message was that because of the love of God, the church as God's community must be radically welcoming. There were a variety of texts that I turned …
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Matthew Erickson 