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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, Will Branch explores Paul's comparison of the life of discipleship to running a race from 1 Corinthians 9:24-27. You can find the message outline and video below. You can access the entire series …
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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 from 1 Corinthians 9:1-23, I explored Paul's theme of forgoing our rights in Christian freedom in order to live for the good of others and God's glory. Paul begins this theme in the …
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Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible....I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in …
With all the hullabaloo in the news these days about failures on the right and on the left, abuse of power, and the angst over unacknowledged sexual abuse, it was ironic that last Thursday I spent time with young adults at Kaleo talking about self-control. I hate to say it's not surprising to me that …
This week at Eastbrook Church, I concluded our series "Go Global" with a message entitled "Going to Great Lengths." You can listen to my message online at the Eastbrook web-site here. You can also subscribe to the Eastbrook podcast here or follow Eastbrook Church on Twitter. My message outline is below. God Going to Great …
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