We are taking a break from our sermon series in Ephesians to celebrate what the church has traditionally called Holy Week. The Sunday before Easter is normally set aside to recall Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. This morning, we will start with Palm Sunday and work our way through the final week of Jesus’s earthly […]
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Passage: Ephesians 4:4-6 Last week, we began to consider the second half of Paul’s letter to the Ephesian church and his exhortation to walk worthy, a statement that serves as the focus or “topic sentence” of the remainder of the letter. His initial concern is unity in the church, a unity created by the Spirit […]
Walk Worthy
Passage: Ephesians 4:1-3 The structure of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is pretty straight-forward: chapters 1-3 talk about all that God has done for us in Christ while chapters 4-6 tell us how to live in light of God’s grace. This is the practical, life-application section of Ephesians, and this morning, we start to consider […]
Why Pray?
Passage: Ephesians 3:20-21 This morning’s passage concludes the first half of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, which contains some of the most sublime thinking on the nature and work of the church in all of scripture. This passage also wraps up Paul’s prayer for power for the Ephesian Christians. We have been looking at that […]
A Powerful Prayer – Part 3
Passage: Ephesians 3:17b-19 This morning, we will wrap up our study into the form and content of Paul’s second prayer recorded in his letter to the church at Ephesus. So far, we have introduced this prayer by looking at Paul’s reason, attitude, direction, and sanction for praying this way for the Ephesians. Last week, we […]
A Powerful Prayer – Part 2
Passage: Ephesians 3:16b-17a The Westminster Shorter Catechism states that prayer “is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of ours sins, and thankful acknowledgement of his mercies.” Ultimately, we pray because we are needy and dependent upon God. Yet all too […]
A Powerful Prayer – Part 1
Passage: Ephesians 3:14-16a I doubt that any Christian would ever argue that prayer is unimportant, but I also doubt that any Christian is perfectly happy with their prayer life. Why is that? Could it be that we tend to give prayer far more lip service than practice? Could it be that we were never really […]
Purposeful Grace
Passage: Ephesians 3:7-13 We (rightly) tend to hold Paul in the highest regard, but he had no delusions about his own weaknesses or his sinful past. Paul’s humility led to amazement that God would choose to use him to bring the hope of Christ to the Gentile world. He realized that he was a recipient […]
The Mystery of Togetherness in Christ
Passage: Ephesians 3:1-6 Most everyone loves a good mystery. There is something about the well-told “whodunit” that appeals to us all. In today’s passage, Paul begins to write at length about a mystery, but it is not a Sherlock Holmes/Agatha Christie type mystery. Rather, it is God’s plan for his people and his kingdom that […]
Built to Last
Passage: Ephesians 2:19-22 This morning’s message is the third covering 2:11-22 where Paul describes the unity believers now have with one another as a result of Christ’s redeeming work. In today’s text, he uses three metaphors to describe the significance of the church, this new people of God made up of Jews and Gentiles who […]