This past weekend at Eastbrook, we began a new series on prayer entitled "Sacred Invitation: A Life of Prayer." Greg Marshall began the series with a message exploring the Lord's Prayer and reframing our understanding of God entitled "Praying Upward." You can find the message outline and video below. You can access the entire series …
Say Who He Is: a prayer reflection on the names of Jesus
"He pressed them, 'And how about you? Who do you say I am?'" (Matthew 16:15) Savior. Messiah. Son of the Living God.More than a book or words upon a page,You are the Word—creating, sustaining, and naming. Transcendent One, ineffable in glory, wrapped in lightand shrouded in clouds, upon whom we cannot look.yet also Immanent One, …
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His Suffering Brings Salvation
On His way to Jerusalem, Jesus makes three predictions of His coming suffering, death, and resurrection. The first of those is found in Matthew 16:21, while Jesus is in Caesarea Philippi. The second prediction is in Matthew 17:22-23, while Jesus and His disciples are in Galilee on the way to Jerusalem. And the third prediction is …
His Suffering Brings Peace
This past weekend at Eastbrook, we began a new preaching series, which also parallels the season of Advent, entitled "'Tis the Reason." This first week of the series focuses on Jesus' first description of His pending suffering in Jerusalem and Peter's monumental misunderstanding of Jesus' calling as Messiah as seen in Matthew 16:21-28. Thus begins …
Eastbrook at Home – November 28, 2021
Join us for worship with Eastbrook Church through Eastbrook at Home at 8, 9:30, and 11 AM. Here is a prayer for the first Sunday of Advent from The Book of Common Prayer: Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the …
Matthew Erickson 