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This past weekend at Eastbrook, I continued our preaching series entitled "God's Grace for an Imperfect Church: 1 Corinthians" by looking at the first 34 verses of chapter 15 with a message entitled "Resurrection Matters, part 1." We will continue the second half of this chapter next week. You can find the message outline and …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we celebrated the resurrection of Jesus from death and I preached a stand-alone message entitled "Mistaken for a Gardener" from John 20:1-18. Specifically, I focused on one part of verse 15: "Thinking he was the gardener, she said, 'Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have …
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When I conclude a sermon series, I usually share the resources I used to help me study and prepare my sermons. Here is the first of two bibliographies for our current series, "The Kingdom of God." Next week I will share a second bibliography specifically related to faith and politics that I leaned on for …
As I mentioned yesterday, I am in the midst of preparing for an upcoming sermon series on the kingdom of God. One of the greatest American scholars on this topic is George Eldon Ladd, who gave significant attention to this theme in his teaching and writing career. In his brief book, The Pattern of New Testament …
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Matthew Erickson 