This weekend at Eastbrook Church, we continued looking at the theme of finding our place within the church. Last weekend I talked about how Jesus sets the tone for our service, but this week I focused on the question, "what if someone does not step forward to serve in response to God's invitation?" I looked …
Our Focus (Find Your Place, part 1)
This and next weekend at Eastbrook Church, we are focusing on the theme of finding our place within the church. This weekend, I talked about how finding our place within the church begins not with understanding our spiritual gifts or natural abilities, but with having our focus in the right place. The message was based …
Saturday Prayer 49
When I saw Him, I fell at his feet as though dead. (Revelation 1:1 NIV) Jesus, You are complete in Your glory - there is no other who perfectly displays the Father there is no other whose very life sings forth the perfect mixture of goodness and greatness You are overwhelming in Your power - when the …
Saturday Prayer 43
Have mercy on me, O God; according to Your unfailing love; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. (Psalm 51:1) Search through my soul, O God. Reveal my hidden sin. Cut through my self-deception, And cleanse me from within. Apart from You our souls are lost. We're blind to our wrong ways. We …
Living Like the Community We Are
Here are five suggestions toward living like the community we are as the church that I mentioned in my sermon this past week. If God has created us as a new sort of revolutionary community, then we need to inch toward that reality in our local churches. What would you add to this list? Stop …
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