This coming Sunday at Eastbrook Church we begin a new preaching series entitled "Living the Creed: Connecting Life and Faith in the Apostles’ Creed." This series walks through the Apostles Creed as a basic summary of our faith but also as a way to live our faith out with God in the world. Each weekend …
His Healing by Faith
This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our Advent journey and our preaching series entitled "'Tis the Reason." This third week of the series, Will Branch preached on two stories of healing by Jesus en route to Jerusalem in Matthew 17:14-20 and 20:29-34. Will really made me think about whether my faith is substantial or …
Soul Food: Feeding the 4,000
This past weekend at Eastbrook, as we continued our preaching series, "Who Do You Say I Am?", I walked us through the account of Jesus feeding the 4,000 in Matthew 15:29-39. This story echoes another we have already looked at in the feeding of the 5,000. While I do dig into the actual account, one …
Jesus and the Canaanite Woman
This past weekend at Eastbrook, Pastor Ruth Carver continued our preaching series, "Who Do You Say I Am?", by exploring the story of Jesus and the Canaanite Woman in Matthew 15:21-28. This is both a fascinating and challenging text, which at face value may seem like Jesus is hard and ethnocentric, but actually brings a …
What is All Saints Day?: a brief summary
Today, November 1, we celebrate All Saints Day. All Saints Day is a feast day in the church year that follows All Hallow's Eve (October 31). All Saints Day offers an opportunity to remember all those saints who have gone before us in the faith and to celebrate the reality that we stand amidst a …
Matthew Erickson 