Edinbrook Church

Life can be exhausting. If we’re not careful, we will miss out on God’s good plan for our life and find ourselves muddling through our days joyless. Jesus wants so much more for us! In this message we will check our heart for burnout and give ourselves permission to pushback on the expectations of the world (and people) and choose joy.

Cynicism is one of the dominant spirits of our current age. On a personal level, it is a slow toxin that builds calluses around our hearts over time. It can happen without us even realizing until it is too late. Even worse, it masks itself as “realism”, so we justify our toxic behavior. How did we get here? How come we did not recognize our slow slide into being cynical? This week we will do a heart check to analyze some of the warning signs and find ways to keep cynicism at bay.

When we compare ourselves with others, we usually end up feeling unhappy, bitter, maybe even angry. How many of us miss out on enjoying God’s good, personalized blessings because we’re too busy wanting what others have? In a world of social media, this is a bigger challenge than ever. It’s time to check our heart because this is a miserable way to go through life. In this message we will discuss the reasons comparison is so dangerous and how we can free ourselves from this happiness-killing sin.

Easter Sunday at Edinbrook Church 2022.

RSVP. It simply means to, “please reply to an invitation”. Christians can be notoriously bad at inviting others into considering faith in Jesus Christ. There are many reasons and fears around inviting people to discuss Jesus, but we can get better. With God’s help, I know we can improve. And we have the perfect model to show us how it’s done: Jesus. Come see the invitational style of Jesus and learn how we can improve at inviting others into a life-giving relationship with Him.

After God created the world, He placed Adam and Eve in a beautiful garden. Adam and Eve were happy and free to eat from the tree that filled them with life. But, they sinned against God and ended up banished from the Garden. Since that time, mankind has longed to return to the garden. We long for a life that is full of life and free from problems. Is it possible to experience the garden in this lifetime? In this message we will compare Adam and Jesus, and learn the secret of the garden.

This Sunday we look at the stories of the Patriarchs of our faith like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. What is the Gospel thread that weaves its way through all of their stories? What about the "not so Disney friendly" stories in Genesis? Do those also have a Gospel thread? Can we still find Jesus even in the mess? Let's pull on that thread together this Sunday.

Mankind has always wanted to build his own kingdom, an attempt to be our own god. The problem is that it never works and such attempts always fail. When the descendants of Noah decide to build their own city with a tower to the heavens, it ends with confusion and failure. Which kingdom do we belong to? Man’s or God’s? In this message we will look at the Tower of Babel and the dangers of trying to do life apart from God (and the benefits of life in relationship with God).

The story of Noah’s Ark and the great flood is terrible, tragic, and cataclysmic to say the least. But even in the darkness of Noah’s day, we can see the thread of God’s plan being woven and bringing hope to those who would follow. There are pictures in the flood narrative that point to a greater hope that would come. In this message, we will look at four snapshots of the hope we have in Christ. And even today, when days seem dark, we need to be reminded of that same hope.

At some point, we all need a new beginning, a fresh start, and a new way of life. When we become Christians, we become something radically new. The Bible tells us that we become a new creation, the old is gone and the new has come. But what do we do when we don’t see change or progress happening in our lives? Maybe it even seems like we’ve taken a few steps backwards. In this message, we will look at how God is creating us into something new and what to do when we don’t feel like a new creation.