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This past weekend I had the chance to speak at Elmbrook Church as part of their summer "Game Changer" series. Returning to Elmbrook is always a joy for me because my first full-time vocational ministry role was as Elmbrook's College Pastor with The Ave (2003-08). This series allows speakers to share Scriptural truths that were "game …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook Church, I had the privilege of continuing our "Great Prayers of the Bible" series by co-preaching with my wife, Kelly. This weekend's message explores the prayer of Habakkuk during the impending judgment and exile of the people of God. With our attention on chapter 3, Kelly and I developed our message around …
“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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“that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you…that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity.” (John 17:21-23) Jesus plunges ahead in prayer to the deep place of God’s relational …
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“For yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever. Amen.” (Matthew 6:13) The Lord’s Prayer ends with a brief statement that returns our focus to the power and presence of God. This ascription does not appear in the earliest biblical manuscripts and is usually seen only in footnotes within our contemporary Bible translations. …
Matthew Erickson 