This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our series on prayer entitled "Sacred Invitation: A Life of Prayer." I preached a message entitled "Praying Inward," with a grounding text of 1 Kings 19:1-15a, the story of Elijah running away from Jezebel's death threats to Mount Horeb to meet with God. This message explored the way …
God Works through Broken People
This past Sunday in my message, "Encountering a Broken World," I mentioned how God works through broken people, referencing a list of examples from the Bible. A few people asked me to share that list with them, so here it is. “For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven” …
Walking Faithfully with God: learning from the legacy of Enoch
One of the most interesting, yet brief, characters in the primeval histories of Genesis 1-11 must be Enoch. In just four short verses, we catch a glimpse of someone whose distinguishing mark in life was that he "walked faithfully with God" (Genesis 5:22, 24). Enoch has one of the shortest quantities of life recorded in …
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In the Silence, God is Here
The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an …
The Voice of One Calling Out
This past weekend we continued our series "Power in Preparation" at Eastbrook Church by looking at the appearance of John the Baptist near the Jordan from Matthew 3:1-12 and how this sets the stage for Jesus. John is an extraordinary character in the gospels, whose life and preaching is incredibly challenging. You can view the …
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