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This coming weekend at Eastbrook Church we begin a teaching series entitled "Power in Prayer: Learning to Pray with St. Paul." This series is the first of a three-part series related to our 40th anniversary as a church. Since the earliest days of Eastbrook, prayer has been profoundly important and vital to our life as …
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Here is the resource bibliography to accompany the recent preaching series, "Ephesians: A Crash Course in Basic Christianity." Although I utilized many books or resources for specific messages within this series, I did not include all of those in this bibliography. Instead, I limited it to books our preaching team utilized throughout the series. …
This is my final post in a series on Paul's letter to the Philippians. As he concludes his letter to the Philippians, Paul offers some final 'secrets' to living well for God. The first is to "rejoice in the Lord always" (4:4). This echoes Paul's theme of thankfulness from chapter one, that there is a …
This is the fifth in a series of posts on Paul's letter to the Philippians. These posts are written from devotional reflections on the Scripture. Paul is driven by an all-consuming desire to know Christ. In one sense, Paul already knows Christ, as he writes: "I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth …
This post continues a series of posts with thoughts from Paul’s letter to the Philippians. These posts are personal reflections taken from devotional reading of the book. Paul mentions Timothy and Epaphroditus to the Philippians when writing to them. From Paul's laudatory words, we see that both of these men are examples to the believers …
Matthew Erickson 