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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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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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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 12, I explored the first part of Paul's discussion of spiritual gifts. There is a lot about this topic to explore but with this message I am attempting to set …
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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 11, I explored Paul's discussion of worship around two topics: head coverings and the Lord's Supper. Intertwined with those topics, I explored what it means to read the Bible well …
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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 9:1-23, I explored Paul's theme of forgoing our rights in Christian freedom in order to live for the good of others and God's glory. Paul begins this theme in the …
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Matthew Erickson 