Lent 2023



Playing Favorites

Read Romans 2:5-11 Have you ever felt like someone favored your sibling, friend, or coworker more than you? I’m sure you have and it doesn’t feel good. Has your brother,...



The Weight of Sin

Read Genesis 6:1-8 It makes me uncomfortable to think of God being grieved by my sin. It feels far too personal to acknowledge that my choices make God’s own heart feel pain....



Without Excuse

Read Romans 1:18-23 I was raised in a small Southern town in Mississippi. I remember my mother taking me and my brother to church and Sunday school. She was my...



Generation After Generation

Read Genesis 4:17-24  How often do we take God’s promises to us and contort them into a shape that fits our lives, instead of allowing them to configure us into...



Sermon Notes

Use this resource to take notes on today’s sermon. Join us in person or tune in online at 8, 9:30 or 11 am on the Eastbrook App or via the live...



Practice: Confession & Forgiveness

Each Saturday during Lent, we will take some time as a church family to practice a different spiritual discipline or spiritual practice together. Today, we are practicing confession & forgiveness with...



Planted in Our Hearts

Read James 1:19-21 “My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry because human anger does...



Righteous Anger

Read Ephesians 4:25-27 “Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. ’In your anger do not sin’: Do not...



Life in the Kingdom

Read Matthew 5:21-22 Jesus often described His earthly ministry in Israel with the proclamation that the “kingdom of heaven” was at hand. To His 1st-century Jewish audience that conjured up...



God’s Love Never Fails

Read Genesis 4:8-16 Many of us have known of or experienced sinful anger and how it brings destruction to relationships and lives. We have hurt others with our anger and...