Erie Evangelical Free Church (Erie, IL)

A Simple Faith - Micah 6:8

Pastor Ron Eckberg brings us a special message from Micah 6:8. It’s amazing how hard we humans work at turning the simple into something complicated. For example, “Love your neighbor” means “Love your neighbor”, right? In the Old Testament we find God giving us a simple formula to fulfill what he requires of us.

The Cancellation of Cancel Culture - School Colors (Week 3)

Pastor Jonathan Eckberg concludes our 2024 Back-to-School series. It's easy to accept that no one is perfect. What's hard is dealing with the imperfections that hurt you. The cultural approach to such infractions is to seek personal retribution so that failure is immediately punished to our own satisfaction. That may sound fair, but it's unhelpful, unhealthy, and ungodly. So how should we respond?

The Nature of True Love - School Colors (Week 2)

Pastor Jonathan Eckberg leads us through the second week of our Back-to-School series, "School Colors." The idea of "love" is central to our culture. It is needed, sought, and sometimes even weaponized. This is because the word gets used with varying meanings behind it. So, for the Kingdom-centered life, how is love understood and employed differently compared to the worldly-centered life?

When Good is Never Good Enough - School Colors (Week 1)

Pastor Jonathan Eckberg launches us into this year's Back-to-School series called, "School Colors". Nearly everyone wants to be a good person, to leave a good legacy, to feel good about who we are. And yet, in the kingdom of this world, with all the striving for good, we see an abundance of misery, bitterness, and anything but "good" all around us. How are we to live, as people of the heavenly kingdom, to live above the striving for good to find the joy of eternity?

1 Peter 2:9-10 - Breathing Life into a Dying World

Pastor Ron Eckberg brings a special message from 1 Peter 2:9-10.

Joel 3:1-21 - Faithfulness Trusted

Pastor Jonathan Eckberg closes out our study in the book of Joel. Last week we saw God revealing His faithfulness through Joel. But what now? As we close this short prophetic book, God challenges HIs people (that us!) to trust in the faithfulness Joel revealed. How do we do this? We find the keys in Joel 3:1-21.

Joel 2:18-32 - Faithfulness Revealed

Pastor Jonathan Eckberg leads us through the second week of a three-week series covering the book of Joel. Last week we saw how God confronts our sin with fitting consequences and discipline. This week our attention is turned to God's response to His people's repentance and we celebrate how God's faithfulness is revealed through His goodness, promises, and restoration.

Joel 1:1-2:17 - Invasion

Pastor Jonathan Eckberg launches into a three-week study of the book of Joel in series called, "Detour." It is an easy thing to find ourselves a little off track in our lives and in our faith. In the opening sections of the book of Joel, God's intervenes to call his wayward children to change direction and come back to Him. In doing so, we learn how to respond faithfully when our lives have gone off-track and need to return to the route of God's calling.