This past weekend at Eastbrook, as we continued our preaching series, "Who Do You Say I Am?", I walked us through the account of Jesus feeding the 4,000 in Matthew 15:29-39. This story echoes another we have already looked at in the feeding of the 5,000. While I do dig into the actual account, one …
Eastbrook at Home – November 7, 2021
Join us for worship with Eastbrook Church through Eastbrook at Home at 8, 9:30, and 11 AM. This weekend we continue our series, "Who Do You Say I Am?," as I preach from Matthew 15:29-39 about Jesus' feeding of the four thousand in the vicinity of Magadan. We explore the passage and then talk about …
Jesus and the Canaanite Woman
This past weekend at Eastbrook, Pastor Ruth Carver continued our preaching series, "Who Do You Say I Am?", by exploring the story of Jesus and the Canaanite Woman in Matthew 15:21-28. This is both a fascinating and challenging text, which at face value may seem like Jesus is hard and ethnocentric, but actually brings a …
Eastbrook at Home – October 31, 2021
Join us for worship with Eastbrook Church through Eastbrook at Home at 8, 9:30, and 11 AM. This weekend we continue our series, "Who Do You Say I Am?," as Pastor Ruth Carver preaches from Matthew 15:21-28 about Jesus' encounter with a Canaanite woman, which shows us some very interesting things about the nature of …
Matters of the Heart
This past weekend at Eastbrook, I continued our preaching series, "Who Do You Say I Am?", after our two week hiatus for our annual MissionFest. This week I worked through Jesus' teaching on the heart and what truly defiles in Matthew 15:1-20. What continually strikes me about Jesus' teaching in the Gospel of Matthew is …
Matthew Erickson 