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This past weekend at Eastbrook Church we continued our series, "The Kingdom of God." This first weekend I explored the theme of the kingdom of God through the Old Testament, and this week I took a similar journey through the New Testament. You can view the message video and outline for the message is below. …
Continue reading "Jesus is Lord: Tracing the Kingdom of God in the New Testament"
In his exceptional essay, "Poetry from Patmos: St. John as Pastor, Poet, and Theologian" in Subversive Spirituality, Eugene Peterson describes the Apostle John as the sort of theologian we most need and are most ready to hear. Theologians sometime receive a bad name because they seem removed from existence. But the best theologians step into the …
Continue reading "St. John the Theologian: a reflection by Eugene Peterson"
visions of horror shudder the human heart heaving oceans and lurching beasts clamor over creation raging conquerors crush and kill life scurrying under the sun and history's wheels roll over all vulnerable souls then lightning flashes the skies and tear-filled eyes see heaven's in-breaking rule snaps in like a curtain torn in two all the …
In her book Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, Kathleen Norris writes a chapter entitled "Apocalypse," that sheds light on the journey we have been on at Eastbrook in our series, "Daniel: Apocalyptic Imagination and Exile Faith." She begins with a quotation by poet Czeslaw Milosz: "I have lived in apocalyptic times, in an apocalyptic century …
Matthew Erickson 