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This past weekend at Eastbrook, I concluded our Advent preaching series entitled "Who Is He?: Titles of Jesus the Messiah from Isaiah" by looking at Isaiah 49:1-13 with a message entitled "The One Who Restores." This is the second of four texts in the second half of the book of Isaiah that are generally referred …
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You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. (Isaiah 25:4a) This chapter from Isaiah's prophecy speaks to the restoration God will bring for His people even as "ruthless nations" rise up against them. Isaiah speaks of both a …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, I concluded our series, "Love-Sex-Body: Toward a Biblical Theology of Embodied Sexuality," focusing on the fourth chapter of God's Good Story: the Restoration of all things. I spent a lot of attention in this message on Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 15, which draw together Adam and fallen human bodies …
Matthew Erickson 