This past weekend in my message, "The Pursuit of God," I referenced a quotation by St. Gregory of Nyssa taken from his influential work The Life of Moses: “Once having set foot upon the ladder…he [Moses] continually climbed to the step above and never ceased to rise higher, because he always found a step higher …
“The Pursuit of God” – a message on David’s anointing in 1 Samuel 16
This past weekend at Eastbrook, we began a new preaching series entitled "The Pursuit of God: The Life of David." This weekend I began the series with a message entitled "The Pursuit of God, " which was my attempt to set up the series and also preach from 1 Samuel 16 about David's anointing. You …
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A Letter from Prison (Philippians, pt 5)
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 …
Making a Daniel: Alan Jacobs on counter-cultural catechesis
In light of my recent exploration of the book of Daniel at Eastbrook Church (see "Daniel: Apocalyptic Imagination and Exile Faith"), Alan Jacobs' blog post earlier this week seemed well-timed for me. Jacobs interacts with Adrian Vermeule's review of Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed, in which Vermeule offers an alternative to Deneen’s plea for a renewed localism, and …
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The Church: A Multi-Ethnic, Kingdom-Oriented Community
This past weekend at Eastbrook Church, I continued a two-part reflection on the nature of the church. My working title for this series is "The Multi-Everything Church," which is an outworking of our vision to become a Revelation 7:9-10 type of church with attention to some other aspects beyond multi-ethnicity. Following last weekend's message on the …
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Matthew Erickson 