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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 4 I took us through Paul's striking words about finding confidence in Christ, freedom from peoples' opinions, and the ability to live according to a different measure from the standards …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook as part of our series, "The Tree and the Vine," I reflected on what it means to experience God's pruning in the spiritual life with a message entitled "The Pruned Life." I concluded that message with three types of pruning within the spiritual life. I'm sharing the basic notes on …
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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our preaching series "The Skeptic's Guide to Life with God: Ecclesiastes." Greg Marshall preached a message entitled “Why do bad things happen to good people?” from Ecclesiastes 8. Greg particularly focused on Ecclesiastes 8:14-15: "There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what …
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I read Wendell Berry's wonderful book, Hannah Coulter, in the past month, and it was a beautifully moving book. I deeply enjoyed so much about it, that I find it difficult to summarize the ways Berry opens the read into human relationships, the significance of grief, generational change, the texture of love, and so much …
Matthew Erickson 