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This coming weekend at Eastbrook Church we begin a new preaching series entitled "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality." All around us, in our daily interactions with others and in the cultural conversation, we encounter ever-changing and vigorous debates about the nature of the human body, gender identity, and sexuality. In this series …
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As I concluded our series, "Will You Be My Neighbor?", this past weekend at Eastbrook, I took a practical look at how John 8:12 and Matthew 5:14 fit together in our faith and practice. In these two verse, a theme of light from God shining through Jesus and His people come together, yet in different …
This weekend at Eastbrook, we began a new 4-week series entitled "Will You Be My Neighbor?" This series is an extended reflection on how Jesus' call to love God and love our neighbor works its way out into the ordinary context of our neighborhoods. I began the series this weekend by looking at the call …
At our Christmas Eve services at Eastbrook Church, we focused on Jesus as the light of the world. You can watch my message from the Christmas Eve service here. This begins a new series, "The Name Above All Names," for us at Eastbrook on the titles of Jesus. I'm also including the text of that …
This past week, Judah Smith, pastor of Churchome (formerly 'City Church') announced via Twitter that the church's latest "site" would be through an app on your smart phone. You can read an article about it here: "Judah Smith Launches Church 'in the palm of your hand.'" This move, listed as on of the locations on the church's …
Matthew Erickson 