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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 second message from 1 Corinthians 12 (view the first message here), I explored the second part of Paul's discussion of spiritual gifts that leads into his discussion of the church as the body of …
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When I conclude a sermon series, I usually share resources I utilized in my study and preparation for sermons. Here is the bibliography for our recent series, "One: The Being of God in the Life of the Church." Bibliography for “One: The Being of God in the Life of the Church” Gregory K. Beale. The …
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Here is the resource bibliography that accompanied the development of the recent preaching series, "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality." I utilized many resources for specific messages within this series, and many, but not all, of those are included in this bibliography. Bibliography for "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality": Alberry, …
Here is Marva Dawn halfway through her marvelous book Sexual Character: Beyond Technique to Intimacy on the ways in which an ethics of character, or virtue ethics, aptly shapes our engagement with love, sexuality, and the body: The main task of ethics is to enable us to ask better questions about the issues of our day. An …
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Matthew Erickson 