If you look at the overall structure of the letter: it starts out by saying this is what God has done for you! Understand it. Be mesmerized by it! See…
The armor we are told to put on is the sandals of readiness. If you look at the text, it is not saying we should be ready to share the…
The process of change takes a lot of hard work. It is a process. It is the hard work of transforming our minds, our hearts. When we do that, we…
I think when we think about doing spiritual warfare, we primarily think about things that are dramatic, kind of like the way Jesus delivered people who were demon possessed. But,…
One mistaken view is that work is a curse. Our goal often is to work as little as possible and spend as much time as possible on leisure. We think…
If you look at the history of the church, Jesus was the first church planter. He planted the Jerusalem church by developing the core team. That’s how you plant a…
When Paul says in verse 32, “This is a profound mystery,” he is not saying that it is something we don’t understand. He is saying that it is something that…
We’ve been going through the book of Ephesians, and we’ve been on a series on marriage. We are going to be dealing with one of the most controversial issues in…
This passage tells us a great deal about God’s design for marriage. We are to leave our parents and “be united” to each other. The two are to become one…
Last Sunday, we looked at the problem of marriage. Verse 21 says “Submit to one another out of reverence to Christ.” To submit is to release your control; it is…
We now come to the longest text on marriage in the Bible. These 13 verses contain treasures about marriage. We are going to dig into them and see what God…
We will talk about: (1) the experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit; (2) the results of being filled with the Holy Spirit; and (3) how to be filled…
In order to understand what it means to be filled with the Spirit, we need to understand what it means to live by the Spirit. If you know how to…
We’ve been studying the book of Ephesians. We are in a middle of a series called Gospel Driven Change. Today’s message is on wisdom. Have you ever done anything stupid? I…
Last week we talked about God’s agape love. Agape means unconditional self-sacrificial love. We talked about the reality that God not only agapes, but he is Agape. He is unconditional…
This passage is calling us to be imitators of God. The word for imitator is this word mimitai where we get the word mimic. It means to mimic God. It…
We are going to look at a movement in the life of a Christian: from stealing to working to sharing, a movement from life of doing injustice to a life…
"Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them."
Last week, we talked about anger. It was more focused on day to day anger that we face. Today, we are going to talk about more deep seated anger—bitterness and…
The gospel is that we are more messed up than I know yet God loves us in Christ more than I can ever imagine. He loved us so much that…
God calls us where ever we are. He calls us to come as we are. Then, he tells us how much he loves us, how he chose us, how us…
Have you ever been let down? Not in a minor way but a major way? Have you ever been so let down that you really do feel like a bug…