This coming weekend at Eastbrook Church we enter into a journey through the Psalms of Ascent entitled "Ascend." Our life with God is a journey. It is a journey with God, but also a journey with His people on the way to the eternal kingdom. The New Testament describes God’s people as “foreigners and strangers …
Dying to Live
We continued our series, "Jesus at the Center," this past weekend at Eastbrook by looking at a somewhat obscure passage found in Colossians 2:16-23. Here, Paul and Timothy push back against some wrong ideas that will lead the early believers in Colossae astray from the truth found in Christ. We face similar struggles today, so I …
Deep: Changed with God
This weekend at Eastbrook Church I continued our series "Jesus Changes Everything" by looking at what it means to enter into the deep life with God. I jumped off from Paul's powerful statements in Philippians 2:12-13 to get a deeper understanding of what Jesus saves us from and what He saves us to. You can watch the message here …
Deep – Wide – Multiplied
This past weekend at Eastbrook Church we kicked-off our ministry year with a vision sermon entitled "Deep - Wide - Multiplied." This message aimed to focus us in for the year here at Eastbrook around three key movements of the good and happy life with God seen in Psalm 1. You can connect with us further at Eastbrook Church …
Dallas Willard’s Spirit of the Disciplines
As I continue to reflect on the influence of Dallas Willard, I am turning back to some previous posts on his book, The Spirit of the Disciplines. Here is one post from two years ago: I re-read Dallas Willard's book The Spirit of the Disciplines. It's a great book on entering into the deep life with God. Willard …
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Matthew Erickson 