Passage: Ephesians 5:25-33 After taking a week to allow Paul to address wives, we move to his divinely inspired instructions for husbands. It is interesting that most people who balk at the idea of wives submitting to their husbands are all in favor of the following imperative for husbands to love their wives as Christ […]
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Submit? Seriously?
Passage: Ephesians 5:22-24 A text like this morning’s is one of the reasons our church preaches straight through books of the bible. In this day and culture, it would be easy to skip a passage that many claim is an archaic remnant from an ancient patriarchal society. Contemporary feminism would accuse anyone who takes the […]
God’s Transforming Presence
Passage: Ephesians 5:18 As we move back into our sermon series in Ephesians, we are going to take one week to look more closely at one verse, and more specifically, that verse’s reference to the Holy Spirit. Today in the church, we can see one of three tendencies when it comes to the Holy Spirit: […]
The Importance of Prayer
Passage: Various Prayer is a crucial activity in the life of a follower of Jesus Christ, however, in today’s culture with its hurried paces, instant access to almost everything, and the frenzied pull of social media, prayer will often times be overlooked and that can lead to spiritual disaster. The Bible gives us several principles […]
Walking Wisely
Passage: Ephesians 5:15-21 There are two ways for us to consider and “locate” this morning’s text within Paul’s presentation to the Christians in Ephesians. The first is to see this as a continuation of a long argument, beginning all the way back in 4:1 which sets forth the fact that the lives of believers should […]
Living as Light in the Surrounding Darkness
Passage: Ephesians 5:8-14 If there is one thing that should be clear to us from our study through the book of Ephesians thus far it is that the Christian life is primarily a fight to believe and live out our true identity in Christ. This morning, as we consider Paul’s continuing instructions to Christians on […]
Victory through Thanksgiving
Passage: Ephesians 5:3-7 As much as Paul has been focusing on the stark contrast between our old life before Christ and our new life after salvation, it should come as no surprise that he would have some sharp words for the rampant immorality of the Ephesian culture and the need for Christians to have nothing […]
We May Stumble, “But God” Does Not (Rick Hackett)
Passage: Titus 2:11-15 Thus far, in our sermon series through the book of Ephesians, the reality of “But God” has been made clear. God does for us what we could never do for ourselves. It is only because of God’s grace that man has any hope whatsoever. In today’s sermon we will build on the […]
Intimacy Leading to Imitation
Passage: Ephesian 5:1-2 Two weeks ago, when we first addressed this text, I mentioned that we needed to spend some concentrated time to see how believers can develop intimacy with God that leads to growing holiness. My purpose in this message is to persuade you that God has given us the necessary means to grow […]
Help for the Journey
Passage: 1 John 2:24-29 Ask the average person on the street today and they will tell you that truth is relative. What this means is that what is true for one person many not be true for another. What happens when this line of thinking invades the church? Often, what is being sold as truth […]