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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we began a new preaching series entitled "Holy God, Wholly Given: Lent in Leviticus." My message this week aimed to set up the entire series while also exploring the holiness of God and the way God pursues us. "Jesus, Holy God With Us" drew upon a wide variety of texts …
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While I was working on my message for this past weekend, "When Trouble Comes" from James 1:1-18, I was also reading Brian Zahnd's newer book The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross. Zahnd's description of how Jesus' crucifixion opens us to the presence of Christ with us at all times, even …
When you face rejection from friends or enemies, Beloved, I’ve been there.When you struggle in the crucible of suffering and obedience, Beloved, I’ve been there.When you have to surrender what feels like all of your life, put all the chips in, Beloved, I’ve been there.When one of your closest offers up their intimacy with you as a means …
“All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: ‘The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’ (which means ‘God with us’).” (Matthew 1:22-23) “And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!” …
Advent is one of the times I remember most clearly from my early years. My parents would gather my older brother and I around the Advent wreath each night to light candles and sing hymns about the coming of Christ. That tradition is one we have continued in our own family, since the time our …
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Matthew Erickson 