This weekend at Eastbrook Church, we launched into a new series entitled "Love Letters," where we are walking through the letters of 1, 2, and 3 John. My message this weekend was entitled, "This is the Message," and drew from 1 John 1:1-2:2. You can listen to my message online at the Eastbrook web-site here. …
The Real Good News
“To recover the old, authentic, biblical gospel, and to bring our preaching and practice back into line with it, is perhaps our most pressing present need.” J. I. Packer wrote these words in his 1958 introductory essay for a reprint of John Owen’s The Death of Death in the Death of Christ. While Packer went …
What Most Clearly Reveals the Power of God?
I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God. (Romans 1:16) When we consider the power of God, we may think of a variety of things. We may think of the ferocious winds during this past week that tangled trees in utility wires, peeled weak walls off buildings and fueled …
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Rome: Lost and Found (discussion questions)
Here are discussion questions that accompany my message “Lost and Found” from our series “Light for the City” at Eastbrook this past weekend on Romans 1:16-17. Discussion Questions: 1. Paul begins this letter to the Romans by recounting his ministry and how God has been at work in his life. How have you encountered God? …
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God’s Triple Team
I recently came across a very helpful interview with J. I. Packer about the necessity of preaching on the Trinity called "God's Triple Team." Packer is probably best known as the author of Knowing God, and is also a professor at Regent College in Vancouver, BC. Now, I love Packer's work because he calls us …
Matthew Erickson 