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This past weekend at Eastbrook, I gave the first message in our preaching series entitled "Authentic Faith: Growing with the Apostle James." My message was entitled "When Trouble Comes," and drew upon James 1:1-18. This is a beautiful and penetrating passage with many well-known words, but perhaps most famous within this passage is this statement: …
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This coming Sunday at Eastbrook Church we begin a new preaching series entitled “Authentic Faith: Growing with James the Apostle.” This series explores the New Testament letter of James which touches on many aspects of the life with God and with others. Here are the week-by-week schedule for this series: January 5 - "When Trouble …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, I continued our preaching series entitled "Who Is He?: Titles of Jesus the Messiah from Isaiah" by looking at Isaiah 42:1-9 with a message entitled "The One Who Brings Justice." This is the first of four texts in the second half of the book of Isaiah that are generally referred …
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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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Matthew Erickson 