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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our preaching series entitled "God's Grace for an Imperfect Church: 1 Corinthians." This week we arrived at one of the most well-known passages in the entire letter of 1 Corinthians, chapter 13. Hopefully you already know that these words were not written by Paul specifically about marriage, even …
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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 second message from 1 Corinthians 12 (view the first message here), I explored the second part of Paul's discussion of spiritual gifts that leads into his discussion of the church as the body of …
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Last week while I was at Fort Wilderness speaking at one of their weeklong family camps, I also had the opportunity to share a devotional with their summer staff. Their theme for the summer is "After the Fire," and is drawn from 1 Kings 19, where Elijah meets with God. It is after the wind, …
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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 12, I explored the first part of Paul's discussion of spiritual gifts. There is a lot about this topic to explore but with this message I am attempting to set …
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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, Dan Ryan explores Paul's words about idolatry e from 1 Corinthians 10:1-11:1. You can find the message outline and video below. You can access the entire series here. Join us for weekend worship …
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Matthew Erickson 