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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our preaching series entitled "God's Grace for an Imperfect Church: 1 Corinthians." In this message, Greg Marshall explores Paul's comments on sexuality and our bodies as God's people from 1 Corinthians 6:12-20. You can find the message outline and video below. You can access the entire series here. …
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Makoto Fujimura, Pentecost, Mineral Pigments and Gold on Kumohada over Board; 2008. What must the early disciples have been holding in their hearts and minds in those days after Jesus' ascended? His final words to them were drenched with weighty anticipation: "I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, I concluded our series, "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality," focusing on the fourth chapter of God's Good Story: the Restoration of all things. I spent a lot of attention in this message on Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 15, which draw together Adam and fallen human bodies …
As I read through John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion this summer, occasionally I am sharing sections that strike me with particular force. Here is Calvin reflecting on the summary of the Christian life beginning in self-denial in order that the life of Christ might spring up within us by God's grace. Even though the …
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Matthew Erickson 