Join us for worship with Eastbrook Church through Eastbrook at Home at 8, 9:30, and 11 AM. This weekend we begin a new preaching series entitled "In the Beginning" drawn from Genesis 1-3. Here is a prayer for this Sunday, which celebrates the baptism of Jesus, from The Book of Common Prayer: Eternal Father, at …
“In the Beginning” (Genesis, part 1) – a new series at Eastbrook Church
This coming Sunday at Eastbrook Church we begin a new preaching series entitled "In the Beginning," which will be the first of a two-part series on Genesis, chapters 1-11. This series explores Genesis 1-3. Genesis is a book of beginnings, setting the stage for all that comes afterwards not only in that book but in …
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James Weldon Johnson, “The Creation” [Poetry for Ordinary Time]
I've enjoyed posting poetry series themed around the Christian year in the past couple of years (see "Poetry for Lent" and "Poetry for Easter"). I will continue that with a series called "Poetry for Ordinary Time." Ordinary time includes two sections of the church year between Christmastide and Lent and Easter and Advent. The word …
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Every Life Made in God’s Image
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27) Each and every life is made in God's image. Because of this great truth, no life is either less valuable or more valuable than another. To speak of the value of each life reminds …
N. T. Wright on the Importance of Binaries in Genesis
In my message this past weekend, "Creation and Embodied Sexuality," I referenced an extended quotation from New Testament scholar N. T. Wright on the importance of the binaries in Genesis. As I mentioned, there is a structural symmetry throughout Genesis 1 that links pairs of differents one to another. This symmetrical crescendo of creation reaches …
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Matthew Erickson 