This past weekend at Eastbrook, I continued our series, "Songs of the Savior: Psalms for Advent," by exploring Psalm 22. I began by walking through the three sections of the psalm, giving attention to both lament and praise in the Psalm 22. I followed this by looking at the psalm Christologically, with attention to the …
A Prayer for the Second Sunday in Advent
Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast …
Understanding Advent
Here is a video that our team at Eastbrook Church put together about the season of Advent. Join in with our 2019 Advent devotional and preaching series, "Songs of the Savior: Psalms for Advent." https://vimeo.com/375762370
A Prayer for the First Sunday in Advent
Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his …
Restoration and Embodied Sexuality
This past weekend at Eastbrook, I concluded our series, "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality," focusing on the fourth chapter of God's Good Story: the Restoration of all things. I spent a lot of attention in this message on Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 15, which draw together Adam and fallen human bodies …
Matthew Erickson 