This weekend at Eastbrook Church I continued our series, "Jesus on the Move," with a messaged entitled, "Transfigured" from Luke 9:28-36. This event conveys both the beautiful and dangerous glory of Jesus' true nature as fully God and fully man. The silence of the disciples at the end of it all echoes our own call to silence before …
Messiah
What do we see when we see Jesus? This is the question at the center of my message, "Messiah," from this past weekend at Eastbrook Church. This was part of our series, "Jesus on the Move," where we have been looking at the ministry of Jesus in northern Israel in the first half of the Gospel …
Sending
This weekend at Eastbrook Church I continued our series, "Jesus on the Move," with a messaged entitled, "Sending" from Luke 9:1-6, 57-62; and 10:1-24. These texts describe the sending out of the Twelve apostles and the seventy-two, with a brief description of three challenges of discipleship. I largely focused on apostleship and what it means that there are …
Compassion
This weekend at Eastbrook Church I continued our series, "Jesus on the Move," with a messaged entitled, "Compassion" from Luke 8:40-56 and 9:37-43. These three stories from two chapters in Luke show us the wonder-working power of Jesus, but that wasn't the focus of my message. Instead, I called us to step back and see the …
Teaching
This weekend at Eastbrook Church I continued our series, "Jesus on the Move," with a messaged entitled, "Teaching" from Luke 6:17-49. This is Jesus' famous sermon that has had such a tremendous impact on our world, even credited as one of the most important speeches in all of human history. I focused primarily on Jesus' words about …
Matthew Erickson 