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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 third message of the series I explored how the apparent foolishness and weakness of the Crucified Messiah connect with the wisdom of this age and the work of the Holy Spirit. All this is …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we contimued our preaching series, "Fractured," drawn from Genesis 4-11. This is the second part of a two-part series on Genesis 1-11 that will stretch from January through Lent up to Easter. You can access the first part of this series on Genesis, "In the Beginning," here. This fourth week …
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This is a summary page through which you can access all of my note-posts on Exponential 2010. This was an outstanding conference for me, and that's coming from someone who is not a big conference guy. Disclaimer on my notes Will Mancini, “Church Unique” Mark Batterson, “Don’t Take ‘Yes’ for an Answer” Louie Giglio Rick …
Francis Chan is the teaching pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, where he has been serving for the past 15 years. Francis spends much of his time speaking to high school and college students and is the author of Crazy Love and Forgotten God. Francis just recently announced that he is leaving Cornerstone Church …
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Take 5 minutes and 19 seconds to watch this parable about the church, our supernatural God, and a big red tractor with Francis Chan. You will not regret it. [Update: March 2010 - unfortunately, this Vimeo clip was altered sometime recently. I have re-embedded the video here: Little Red Tractor from South Georgia Church of …
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Matthew Erickson 