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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we concluded our preaching series entitled "Essential Church." This series is the first of a three-part exploration of the Book of Acts this Fall, including “Ordinary People in God’s Extraordinary Work” and “Jesus, King of the Nations.” This week in the series I looked at the beginning of Acts 6, …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our new preaching series entitled "Essential Church." This series is the first of a three-part exploration of the Book of Acts this Fall, including “Ordinary People in God’s Extraordinary Work” and “Jesus, King of the Nations.” This week in the series I looked at the final verses of …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our new preaching series entitled "Essential Church." This series is the first of a three-part exploration of the Book of Acts this Fall, including “Ordinary People in God’s Extraordinary Work” and “Jesus, King of the Nations.” This week in the series I looked at the final verses of …
As I continue to reflect on unity as we walk through our current series at Eastrook Church, "One: The Being of God in the Life of the Church," here is a powerful quotation from Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Life Together on the necessary tension between solitude and community: Let him who cannot be alone beware of …
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In his book A Fellowship of Differents, Scot McKnight, professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary, unpacks the unfortunate process of folks who idealize Christian community, refusing to make space for the messiness that comes with human relationships. He writes about a common pattern, or process, that we often see when their idealism crashes into …
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Matthew Erickson 