This past weekend at Eastbrook, we celebrated Eastbrook Outdoors and at that service I preached a stand-alone message that carried forward some themes of our recent series on Nehemiah, entitled "Jesus Rebuilds and Repairs." You can find the message outline and video below. Join us for weekend worship in-person or remotely via Eastbrook at Home. …
While It Was Dark: A poem on Jesus’ source of vitality
While it was still dark, before sun’s rising,He drew away to a desolate placeto be with His Father in prayer. He gaveHimself again to God’s will, Son risingto His calling, goal, and identity. Before all the wild whispering and coldcalls for healing, He returned to the boldlove of God in divine serenity.Centered in the heart of …
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Mistaken Identity
This past weekend at Eastbrook, I continued our new preaching series, "Who Do You Say I Am?", by looking at a strange episode in Matthew 14:1-13 on the death of John the Baptist at the hands of Herod Antipas. This passage has import for revealing Jesus' identity and also gives us insight into the life …
A Prayer for Stillness (with a word from Thomas à Kempis)
Grant me, O Lord, to know what I ought to know,to love what I ought to love,to praise what delights Thee most,to value what is precious in Thy sight,to hate what is offensive to Thee.Do not suffer me to judge according to the sight of my eyes,nor to pass sentence according to the hearing of …
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A Necessary Tension: Bonhoeffer on Solitude and Community
As I continue to reflect on unity as we walk through our current series at Eastrook Church, "One: The Being of God in the Life of the Church," here is a powerful quotation from Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Life Together on the necessary tension between solitude and community: Let him who cannot be alone beware of …
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Matthew Erickson 