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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, Dan Ryan explores Paul's words about idolatry e from 1 Corinthians 10:1-11:1. You can find the message outline and video below. You can access the entire series here. Join us for weekend worship …
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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 8, I sought to bring us through Paul's discussion of food sacrificed to idols to what I see as the center of this part of the letter: forgoing our rights …
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Here's one more follow-up post from my message on idolatry last Thursday night with Kaleo, the young adults group here at Eastbrook. In his book book Counterfeit Gods (pages 167-170), Tim Keller shares four questions you can ask yourself to discover your idols. What are we dreaming about or imagining? As William Temple said, "Your religion …
Last Friday night, I gave a message to our young adults at Eastbrook as part of their series on idolatry. Drawing upon Exodus 20 and 32, as well as Psalm 115, and 1 Thessalonians 1:8-10, I attempted to paint a picture of what idolatry is, what it does to us, and how God set us free …
A quick search online reveals that a lot of us have image problems. Not only do you and I have image problems, but it seems like every category of person, career, human activity, and individual has an image problem. The Satanic Inversion of the Image of God As I mentioned in my message this past …
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