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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our preaching series entitled "God's Grace for an Imperfect Church: 1 Corinthians." This week we arrived at one of the most well-known passages in the entire letter of 1 Corinthians, chapter 13. Hopefully you already know that these words were not written by Paul specifically about marriage, even …
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"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love." (John 15:9) The Father's love is greater than we understand. In a few short hours after this teaching from Jesus, the disciples would see with shocking clarity how far God would go to display divine love as Jesus went …
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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"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the …
Matthew Erickson 