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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our series entitled "The Discipleship Journey: Four Examples of Growing with Jesus." I preached this second message of the series entitled "Seeking Understanding," which explored Philip's encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch as recorded in Acts 8:26-39. You can find the message outline and video below. You can access …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we began a new series entitled "The Discipleship Journey: Four Examples of Growing with Jesus." I preached this first message entitled "Prison Walls Falling," which drew upon the stories of Paul and Silas in Philippi as recorded in Acts 16:11-40. This message explored how our discipleship journey begins at some …
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Jesus' closest disciples did not initially believe the message of Jesus' resurrection. Instead, they doubted. Luke tells us that they even went so far as to categorize the story of the women who encountered angels at the tomb as "nonsense." This terms comes from the medical realm and refers to the delirious ravings of someone overcome …
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1) One of the most startling phrases at the beginning of John's Gospel is this : ‘The Word was God’. John describes Jesus as the definitive Word of God, while also actually being the divine being Himself. …
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Matthew Erickson 