I continued our series, "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality," this past weekend at at Eastbrook Church by turning to the third chapter of God's Good Story: Redemption in Jesus Christ. This message builds off of previous messages on Creation and the Fall, looking at Christ's redeeming work as outlined in Romans 5. …
Peter: God’s restoration in failure
This past weekend in my message, "The Good News of New Beginnings," I didn't make my way into all the detail I had planned in the new beginning of Peter from his failure. Here are my sermon notes from that section, exploring Jesus' restoration of Peter from the failure of his denials. I hope this …
Five Steps for Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership
In my previous posts on Gary L. McIntosh and Samuel D. Rima's Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership, I summarized their key assumptions in the book, the definition of the dark side, how the dark side develops, and five dark-side issues leaders often encounter. In this final post on the book, I turn to the third, …
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John Reilly, The Healing of the Lunatic Boy
Praying for Unity in Conflict [30 Days of Prayer]
“I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.” (John 17:23) In our earthly lives, we will at times falter in the battlefields of conflict. We may find ourselves raising …
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Matthew Erickson 