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Last week, some of our staff at Eastbrook Church spent time reflecting on diversity, multi-ethnicity, and the international perspective within God's plans for His people within the Scripture. We read some portions of the Bible aloud, then reflected together on what we were seeing there. What follows are the unedited notes from that time together.Isaiah …
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Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. - Psalm 139:23-24 Looking at the days ahead, and there are many things ahead for me. Lord, please have mercy on me. Lord, please guide …
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the bulk of our Global Initiatives Gathering (GIG) 2012 here at Eastbrook Church. GIG 2012 is an exciting opportunity for us as a church to be informed about God's work in the world and invited into specific ways that we can join that work together. We are joined this year by …
Even though our global mission gathering is concluded, we will continue those themes with three more weeks of messages about global mission with our "Go Global" series. When we read the Bible, we find that God is a global God. In the Psalms we hear these words: “May the peoples praise You, God; may all …
Matthew Erickson 