This past weekend at Eastbrook Church I began our series "Holy Sexuality" with a message entitled "God's View of Sexuality." The message was my attempt to lay the foundations for our next few weeks, by providing a clear approach to the story of God revealed in Scripture and how that relates to our sexuality in contrast to other cultural …
See – Good – Take: The threefold movement of sin
In my readings of Genesis this week, I was struck by two different stories about sin. Adam & Eve with the Fruit (Genesis 3) When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. …
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Struggling with Sabbath
We started a new series at The Ave spiritual called "Takin' It Easy." Last week, I was talking about one of the most challenging concepts in the Bible: Sabbath. Now, when I think of the word Sabbath, I tend to think of something legalistic and rigid or something just plain out of touch with my …
Lost in Wonder
Have you stopped recently to look at the little things of God's Creation? I was walking around the neighborhood yesterday morning with my 4-month-old baby, David, in a baby carrier. A light morning mist was falling but it was that slightly warm, humid air that makes you comfortable even when a bit wet. David held …
Matthew Erickson 