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When I draw near to the end of a sermon series, I usually share resources I utilized in my study and preparation for sermons. I started doing this because people would ask me what sort of resources I leaned upon for a series or wanted to dig deeper into a specific topic. Here is the …
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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 chapter 14 with a message entitled "Worship That Makes Sense." Chapter 14 concludes a subsection of 1 Corinthians that stretches from chapter 11 through chapter 14, which focuses on the gathered community at …
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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 from 1 Corinthians 11, I explored Paul's discussion of worship around two topics: head coverings and the Lord's Supper. Intertwined with those topics, I explored what it means to read the Bible well …
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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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Matthew Erickson 