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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our preaching series entitled "God's Grace for an Imperfect Church: 1 Corinthians" by looking at the second half of chapter 15, verses 35-58. Pastor Ruth Carver preached this message entitled "Resurrection Matters, part 2," which follows upon my message last weekend, "Resurrection Matters, part 1." You can find …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our preaching series entitled "Living the Creed: Connecting Life and Faith in the Apostles’ Creed." This series walks through the Apostles Creed as a basic summary of our faith but also as a way to live our faith out with God in the world. Each weekend of this …
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Edward Bolwell, ascension day, Acrylic Paint on MDF Board; 2017 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,”they said, “why do you …
One of my favorite works by C. S. Lewis is The Great Divorce, which is awkwardly billed on the paperback cover as "a fantastic bus ride from hell to heaven—a roundtrip for some but not for others." Lewis' conviction in that book, which he expresses elsewhere, is that hell is the self-conscious decision to resist heaven …
We celebrate Ascension Day this week, so I want to take this opportunity give attention to one of the most-neglected aspects of the life and ministry of Jesus. Forty days after His resurrection, after appearing many times to the disciples, Jesus ascended into heaven with the Father again (Luke 24:49-51; Mark 16:19; Acts 1:3-10). The ascension of …
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