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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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"How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. (John 1:48a) The most astonished and revealing question of the first chapter of John's gospel comes here from Nathanael's lips. His encounter with Jesus reveals Christ's knowledge of each person: their background, their identity, their desires, their habits and practices. Philip finds Nathanael near Bethsaida and tells him …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, I explored the hunger that each of us have to know and be known as part of our Hungry for God sermon series. One aspect of this that I did not really get to explore as much as I had hoped was some of the challenges that we encounter with …
One of my friends in college was always afraid that if she left one of our gatherings something really fun would happen immediately afterwards, leaving her out of the fun. We would joke around with her about it, promising that we wouldn’t do anything really fun until after she left for her apartment. Today, there’s …
The distractions of our lives slowly become the purpose of our lives when inattention and lack of focus reign within our souls. The more information we have, the less true knowledge we attain. The less knowledge we attain, the more confusing our life experiences become. Lacking knowledge and meaningful experience in a whirlpool of information, …
Matthew Erickson 