As we continued our series, "God in the Ruins: The Message of the Minor Prophets," this past weekend at Eastbrook I walked us through the prophet Joel. Joel is an often overlooked book of the Bible, although a couple of passages are fairly familiar because of their connection with historic markers in the church year: Ash …
A Prayer inspired by the prophet Joel
To you, Lord, we call, seeing the challenges in the world around us as the nations rage and the challenges within us as our souls often rage. We turn to You, Lord, not with outward shows, like rending of garments, but with the humility of broken and contrite hearts. We turn to You, Lord, because we …
The Trinity and Worship
This past weekend at Eastbrook, I stressed the importance of Christian worship being centered in the Trinity in my message "Worship in the Beauty of Holiness" in the concluding weekend of our series "Roots." There are some things in our faith that I would consider secondary, but the Trinity is not one of them. The …
Activated by the Holy Spirit
This past weekend at Eastbrook Church, we begin a new five-week series called "Roots." This series is an opportunity for us at Eastbrook as we celebrate 40 years as a church to look back at what have been the roots of our church. It also offers us the chance to look forward to how we …
A. W. Tozer on Our Neglect of the Holy Spirit
A. W. Tozer's book, Knowledge of the Holy, is a favorite of mine. One of my college roommates was highly influenced by another of his books, The Pursuit of God. The rest of Tozer's work is, in my opinion, a bit hit and miss, but I came across this treasure from him on the neglect of the …
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Matthew Erickson 