What happens when the leaders who present themselves to us offer false hope and peace? This past weekend at Eastbrook I delved into that question as we continued our series, "Flawed Heroes" from the book of Judges looking at the life of Abimelek in Judges 9. Abimelek, whose name means 'son of the king', is the illegitimate son of …
Incomplete (discussion questions)
Here are the discussion questions that accompany my message, "Incomplete," from this past weekend at Eastbrook Church. This is the first part of our series, "Flawed Heroes" from the book of Judges. This week we looked at Judges 1:1-2:5. Discussion Questions: This weekend at Eastbrook Church we begin a new series entitled “Flawed Heroes” on the Old …
Incomplete
This past weekend at Eastbrook we began a new series, "Flawed Heroes" based on the book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. With this first message, I introduced the series, looked at chapter one, and then took a bit of time to address the question of what we do with God and violence in the Bible. …
Pat Robertson and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I was thinking about Pat Robertson's statement a bit more and reflecting on my negative bias against him when I wrote my last post. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I said to myself: "Self, one of your favorite authors, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was involved in an assassination attempt on Adolph Hitler. What's the difference …
Matthew Erickson 