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In an article entitled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr wrote: Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case any …
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Here are the discussion questions that accompany my message, "Sustaining the Good Life," from this past weekend at Eastbrook Church, the second part of our two-part series on Psalm 23 entitled "The Good Life." I am preaching from the English Standard Version during this series, so here is the text of Psalm 23 from the ESV: 1 The Lord is …
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Here are the discussion questions that accompany my message, "Living the Good Life," from this past weekend at Eastbrook Church as part of our series on Psalm 23 entitled "The Good Life." I am preaching from the English Standard Version during this series, so here is the text of Psalm 23 from the ESV: 1 The Lord is …
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How do we really enter into the good life? This is the heart of what I talked about in my message this past weekend, "Living the Good Life." This is the first of two weeks on Psalm 23 at Eastbrook Church in our series, "The Good Life." The outline and video file for the message is below. You …
The next two weekends at Eastbrook I will speak about "The Good Life" from Psalm 23. In a world the trivializes nearly everything and mocks both meaning and depth, what sort of truths do we encounter in Psalm 23? While much of our contemporary American Christianity relegates Psalm 23 to either sentimentalism or the closing days …
Matthew Erickson 