In our current series at Eastbrook Church, "Who Am I?", we are looking at biblical answers to questions about our identity as human beings. This past weekend I explored the ways in which we are made uniquely by God both as human beings in general and also as individuals. This was also African Global Gateway weekend, …
I Am More Than My Image
With our current series at Eastbrook Church, "Who Am I?", we are exploring biblical answers to questions about finding our identity in God. This past weekend, in my message "I Am More Than My Image," I spoke to the ways in which we are tempted to live according to false images of ourselves instead of living …
Pascal on the Infinite Abyss
I came across this quoted Pascal in his work Pensées as I prepared for my message this past weekend. It is one that I have shared in previous messages, but it is so relevant to our searching for identity: "There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which …
I Am Known by Faith
Why is it so important for us to be authentically known and to authentically know others? Why do relationships feel a tension expressed often in exasperation with phrases like, "You don't even know who I am!" or "I don't even know who you are anymore!" It is because being known and knowing others is one …
I Am Not Stuck
With our current series at Eastbrook Church, "Who Am I?", we are exploring biblical answers to questions about our identity as human beings. This weekend I addressed the ways in which we feel stuck in life, and how a deeper level of being stuck - or existential dissonance - is the underlying cause of that. I talked …
Matthew Erickson 