Easton Bible Church - Messages

Have you ever felt like you didn’t fit in? Maybe it was with a particular crowd or a particular culture at work or at school, but for whatever reason, you weren’t like everyone else. Instead of blending in, you stood out–perhaps awkwardly!–because you were different. Peculiar, by comparison.  By giving the Israelites the Ten Commandments, God was creating a community unlike any other in the Ancien...

Are you afraid to get too close to God? In Exodus 19 & 20, God gives the Israelites an incredible vision for their lives: to be God’s “treasure possession, a kingdom of priests and holy nation.” And to make them ready to fulfill that purpose, God invited them closer to himself, to hear him speak. But out of fear, they drew back.  Getting closer to God isn’t safe. It’s much safer to live off someon...

High performance teams, whether a sports team or a marketing team, always have synergy: multiple individuals working together to become greater than the sum of their parts.  Before the Israelites were ready to enter the Promised Land, they had to become more than just ex-slaves fleeing from Egypt, fighting for survival. They had to learn to live, work, and even fight together. Instead of individua...

When you’re in the wilderness, there are some basic rules for survival. Always know where to find water. Have enough food packed for the journey. Never panic. For the Israelites, however, the most important rule for survival was simple: trust God. More info https://www.ebc.org or call (609.267.4755), email ( office@ebc.org ), DM us on Instagram or Facebook, or come see us in person at Easton Bible...

Thank You for joining our Music and Recovery Pastor Steve Johansson for the conclusion of our New Year New You series. Steve shares that The journey to New Life is similar to that of the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly. New Life is available to us, but some are happy to continue crawling around eating leaves, when God offers us the ability to fly! God wants us to live an abundant l...

Living isn’t for the faint of heart. Rushing from one thing to the next, unable to keep up with it all, can sap you of strength and leave you with barely enough energy to keep going. But where our strength runs out, God provides an endless reservoir that lifts us out of the moment and into the clear blue sky of hope. More info https://www.ebc.org or call (609.267.4755), email ( office@ebc.org ), D...

Today, right now, there is an all out assault on our souls. The level of carnage in the sheer number of lives being slowly crushed by discouragement, apathy, addiction, stress, anxiety, and depression is staggering. And yet, most people are blissfully ignorant of the threat because it’s felt as an absence: a lack of meaning, purpose, and significance, too anesthetized by endless entertainment and...

You might not realize it, but you are a skilled cartographer (that’s someone who creates maps). Maybe you’ve never drawn a literal geographical map, but from the time you were born, you’ve been creating and utilizing a mental map to filter information, interpret new data, and generally make sense of your world. It’s the framework through which you see and understand the world. But when you give yo...

What’s your heart like? Is it healthy? Hard and calloused? Broken? How about, unwieldy? They say the heart wants what the heart wants, good or bad. But how much better would your life be if your heart only wanted what was good? More info https://www.ebc.org or call (609.267.4755), email ( office@ebc.org ), DM us on Instagram or Facebook, or come see us in person at Easton Bible Church. Thank you f...

You are not who you’re supposed to be. Not yet, at least. The first step to becoming who you’re meant to be–your true self–is to recognize that there is a version of you that is possible. The “you” God wants to set free. The new you. More info https://www.ebc.org or call (609.267.4755), email ( office@ebc.org ), DM us on Instagram or Facebook, or come see us in person at Easton Bible Church. Thank...

Have you ever thought you knew someone–really knew them–only to discover later they weren’t who you thought they were? Maybe it was someone you idolized or someone you trusted, only to be disappointed. In this famous passage, Isaiah tells of a king who would come to bring lasting peace and hope to the world. But unlike the many others who can never live up to our expectations, this king never fail...

Hundreds of years before John the Baptist became the “a voice one calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord’” (Matt. 3:3), and 100 years before Judah’s fall, Isaiah encouraged the people to make way for God’s future rescue from Assyria. Another two thousand years later, we’re still called to make way for God to come into our world and into our hearts. More info https://www.ebc.org or ca...

Sir Thomas More wrote, “A drowning man will grasp a straw.” Fear will cause us to hope in all kinds of things. In this passage from Isaiah, God gives King Ahaz a sign that reveals Ahaz’s misplaced hope. But today that same sign offers us the only real hope there is: The hope of Immanuel, “God with us.” More info https://www.ebc.org or call (609.267.4755), email ( office@ebc.org ), DM us on Instagr...

Humans crave significance. We want to know that our lives matter. That we matter. Unfortunately, most of us think that the way to significance lies through personal achievement and success, at whatever cost. But the Apostle Paul shows us another way. The way of love. More info https://www.ebc.org or call (609.267.4755), email ( office@ebc.org ), DM us on Instagram or Facebook, or come see us in pe...

Ever walked into a room and realized you weren’t dressed for the occasion? Or put on a pair of jeans only to discover they’re no longer “in”? Or missed the memo about the company dress code? Even in churches, it can be hard to know what to wear. But the only dress code mentioned in Scripture isn’t about clothing. It’s about the virtues that characterize your life. And nothing looks better on you t...

Presidential elections are a big deal. For months leading up to the election, we’re blanketed with messaging about the significance of the election: what it would mean for our country if this leader vs. that leader were elected. And when election night comes, many of us will sit up late into the night and early morning to find out what the future of the nation might hold. But regardless of what an...

“Love your enemies.” Sounds like a terrible idea, doesn’t it? Sounds crazy, even stupid. The only reasonable move is to love the people on your team, not the opposition. But love–at least the way God loves us–isn’t reasonable or calculated. To love people God’s way is to love people who are against you as though they’re on your team, even when they aren’t. It’s a reckless kind of love. More info h...

Loving people is hard work. Oftentimes in the struggle for personal survival and success, loving other people feels like an inconvenience. It’s easy to settle for good intentions and best wishes, rather than put someone else’s needs ahead of our own. But to love others doesn’t mean simply to toss positive emotions toward someone else. Love acts. More info https://www.ebc.org or call (609.267.4755)...

Life is a story. Sometimes it’s a comedy. Sometimes it’s a tragedy. Sometimes it’s a story of triumph. At other times, a story of failure and disappointment. But love has the amazing ability to rewrite our stories. When you know how God loves you, it changes the plotline to make you the person God created you to be. More info https://www.ebc.org or call (609.267.4755), email ( office@ebc.org ), DM...

What brands do you wear? Nike? Under Armor? Tommy Hilfiger? Whatever’s on sale? The best brands communicate that organization’s values and qualities that set it apart from the rest. And if you’re a follower of Jesus, you have a brand. It’s the same as his: love. And when we wear it well, the world knows we’re his. More info https://www.ebc.org or call (609.267.4755), email ( office@ebc.org ), DM u...

On a journey, the destination is the purpose; it’s the reason you take the trip to begin with. For followers of Jesus, the journey is to become people so transformed by the gospel that our lives radiate God’s message of faith, hope, and love to our community and beyond. More info https://www.ebc.org or call (609.267.4755), email ( office@ebc.org ), DM us on Instagram or Facebook, or come see us in...

It’s been said that the church is more like a battleship than a luxury cruise ship. In the church, we’re on a mission to make a difference by sharing the message of Jesus with the world. And on this ship, there are no passengers; only crew members. On this journey, we all have a part to play. More info https://www.ebc.org or call (609.267.4755), email ( office@ebc.org ), DM us on Instagram or Face...

The journey of life isn’t easy. Life isn’t fair. Things don’t work out the way they’re supposed to. Bad stuff happens… a lot. Having someone (or someones) to travel with is essential to a successful journey. Which raises the question: who are you traveling with? More info https://www.ebc.org or call (609.267.4755), email ( office@ebc.org ), DM us on Instagram or Facebook, or come see us in person...

If you put the wrong kind of fuel into your car engine, it will ruin your engine overtime, which will ultimately prevent you from being able to get where you want to go. In a similar way, if you try to run your life on the wrong kind of fuel, it will damage your heart and keep you from becoming more of who God has created you to be. In 1 John 4, the Apostle John tells us that there’s really only o...

What do you fear most in life? Global warming? Global conflict? Stock market crisis? The wrong person elected president? Or maybe your fears are more personal: failure, heartache, terminal illness, or the loss of a loved one. There are a lot of reasons to be afraid in today’s world (as there always are), and fear has become a sort of global pandemic all its own. At the end of his writing, Habakkuk...