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An article entitled “You’re Not Alone: Top Things People Worry Most About”[1] identified four main categories of things we tend to worry about: money and the futurejob securityrelationshipshealth Many of us can relate to those general categories of worry, even as we all likely have areas of worry that may be specific to us and …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, as we continued our series "Becoming Real" on the Sermon on the Mount, we turned to Matthew 6:25-34. This passage speaks right into one of our most personal and constant issues as human beings: worry. I explore what worry is and what it does and doesn't do. I also spent …
Join us for worship with Eastbrook Church through Eastbrook at Home at 8, 9:30, and 11 AM. This weekend we celebrate Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week. We also continue our preaching series on the Sermon on the Mount, "Becoming Real." This continues our extended journey through the Gospel of Matthew, which began …
Every Thursday during Lent, I post a poem that I find helpful for deeper engagement with Jesus' journey to the Cross and the significance of Lent. Here is Emily Pauline Johnson's poem "Brier (Good Friday)" from Flint and Feather: The Collected Poems of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). Johnson, known also by her adopted name "Tekahionwake," …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our series "Becoming Real" on the Sermon on the Mount by looking at Matthew 6:19-24. This brief passage explores what it means to have our interior and exterior lives unified in terms of what we most value and how that plays out in our material wealth and treasure. …
Matthew Erickson 