We continued our series on the book of Daniel this past weekend at Eastbrook Church by turning to Daniel's famous prayer in chapter 9. Daniel's prayer takes place in the first year of Cyrus' reign, around 539 BC, and references Jeremiah 25:10-11 in recognizing that the time of the exile is reaching its conclusion. Daniel has been in …
Finding Hope: Elizabeth
[This is the devotional I wrote for the second week of Eastbrook Church's Advent 2018 devotional. Join in with the daily journey through Advent here.] “But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old…Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. ‘The Lord has done this …
Witnesses to Hope
Over the past couple of years, I have participated in the Gospel Life blog hosted by the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College. In my post there today I write about the need for us as Christians to become witnesses to hope. This post came out of a lot of my own conversations and …
Unshackled: Joy Beyond Circumstances
As we begin the new year, we also begin a new series this coming weekend at Eastbrook Church entitled "Unshackled: Joy Beyond Circumstances." In a world at odds with itself, how do followers of Christ live with irrepressible joy in God? In this six-week series we will journey through the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Philippians …
Mercy
As we continued our journey with the Psalms of Ascent, "Ascend," this past weekend at Eastbrook, I opened up Psalm 130 for us. I explored the mercy of God as part of our spiritual journey with God in terms of prayer, forgiveness, waiting, and hope. In the midst of that I brought in the story of Jonah, …
Matthew Erickson 