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This past Sunday in my message, "The Unknown Hour," I made a side comment about verses 40-41 and the rapture. The verses are: "Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left." …
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Unknown, The healing of a bleeding woman, Rome, Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter, 4th century. "And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years....When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, 'If I just touch his clothes, I …
Continue reading "The Hidden Burden: a prayer reflection on the woman with the flow of blood"
"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends." (John 15:13) Your presence breaks over the hills like a rising sun.Zechariah's words echo through the atmosphere,mingled with the rustle of feet and whisperof palm branches laid down before You. Thenthe first voice rings out, "Hosanna!", and thenanother replies, "Blessed …
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A few people asked me if I would post my message from yesterday's Good Friday services at Eastbrook, so here it is. The message was based out of the Apostle Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 1:18: "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being …
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Jesus came to seek and to save that which is lost. He pursued unlikely people at the margins to welcome them into God’s kingdom. There is a story in Luke 7 that brings this to life so powerful. It happens after Jesus’ great sermon on the plateau, His healing of a centurion’s servant and raising …
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Matthew Erickson 