I continued our series "Jesus Changes Everything" this weekend at Eastbrook Church by looking at what it means to have wide love like God. I cannot think of a better way to get at what God's wide love looks like than to look at Jesus, who is "the image of the invisible God" (Colossians 1:15). You can watch the message …
Working through Conflict in Relationships
This weekend at Eastbrook Church I concluded our series "Made for It" with a message on working through conflict in relationships. Certainly we all deal with conflict in our relationships, whether friendships, work relationships, marriage, classmates or more. The outline and video for the message is below, along with the presentation slides that accompany it. You can …
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Marriage
I continued our series on relationships, "Made for It," this past weekend at Eastbrook Church with a message on marriage. I started the message in the creation accounts in Genesis 1 and 2, then built from there into Paul's instructions for households in Ephesians 5, moved into some words about the role marriage has in God's mission, …
Friendship
I began our new series "Made for It" this weekend at Eastbrook Church with a message on friendship. I spent some time at the beginning of the message talking about how we are made in God's image as relational beings but our relationships are impacted by sin and evil. The centerpiece of the message, however, was …
Confused in Pergamum
This weekend at Eastbrook Church, I continued our "Revealed" series by looking at the letter to the church in Pergamum (Revelation 2:12-17). I wanted to highlight the fact that often the most destructive attacks we face in our lives come not from full frontal assaults by evil but the side doors and back doors. I focused …
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