The Christian life is described in various ways throughout Scripture; one of them being a battle. The Scriptures assume a reality of evil that we can not always see, yet is real and powerful. Yet as Christians, we don't fight for victory but we fight from a place of victory because of the finished work of Jesus and the power of the Spirit. In this teaching, we explore one of the more famous passages on spiritual warfare and evil.
In this teaching, we look at one of the more complex and controversial passages in Ephesians. How does the gospel speak to authority? And how does the gospel impact away we work in our everyday lives? Listen as we explore these things together.
"Honor your father and mother." Raise your kids "in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." While these verses are in many ways clear to understand, they are also complex and challenging to live out in everyday life. We need the truths of the gospel and the empowering of the Spirit to live into God's design for parents and children. In this teaching, we explore what it looks like to be a Spirit dependent people who live out repentance and faith as parents and children.
Marriage matters for everyone. Marriage is God's idea and is a beautiful gift that ultimately points to Christ' love for the church. In this teaching we explore what marriage is, what marriage looks like and what marriage is ultimately about.
Formation in the way of Jesus must be stronger than the formation of the world. This is what Ephesians 5:11-21 is all about. Each one of us are either being formed into the way of Jesus or we are being deformed into the way of the world. There is no middle ground. In this teaching we explore what it looks like to be formed in the way of Jesus.
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We are moral beings in a moral universe. Everyone of us lives by some sort of ethical system the only question is which one. In this teaching we explore how the gospel informs our ethics and how out of love for God, we live for God.
In Christ there is a whole new way to be human but living as a new human is not automatic. Discipleship to Jesus means we must learn what it means to put off the old way and put on the new. In this teaching we explore what the new way to be human requires, what the new way to be human often misses, and what the new way to be human looks like.
What keeps us from maturity and growth? How might we become more mature in our discipleship to Jesus. While it is easy to remain immature, maturity in Christ is a process of continual trust and reliance on the grace of Christ. In this teaching we explore what often prevents us from maturity and how we might grow in maturity in Christ.
The church must be a place of relational beauty and that requires something of you. While healthy doctrine is of vital importance, our doctrine must inform and transform the way we relate to one another. Starting in Ephesians 4, Paul takes the beauty of gospel doctrine and begins to apply it to the ways Christians are meant to practically live out the beauty of the gospel. In this sermon we explore the call to be a people who embody relational beauty and why that matters.
We sing, we read, we talk about God's love often, and rightly so. But why is it often difficult to truly believe God loves me; not some future or curated version of me? In Ephesians 3, we explore Paul's prayer that God’s people will grow in believing and receiving God's love.
Everyone has a story and everyone is still writing their story. In Ephesians 3 we see how Paul knows his own story, knows God's story and knows what it means to live in God's story. The question becomes, whose story are you living in? It is only when we get caught up in God's larger story do we live lives of meaning, intentionality and purpose. Because the story you live will be the story you live out.
Why is it that essentially every modern person values diversity and equity? Well, Christianity and the gospel. But our world is longing for real, meaningful unity. In Ephesians 2 we find the power and purpose for unity. God's heart is for his church to be a people where different people - different racially, ethnically, socio-economically, politically- are united together because they have first been united with Christ.
In various ways, we are all trying to fill a spiritual hole with a material thing. This leads to inhabiting a fragile identity. Union with Christ, the focus of Ephesians 2:1-10, is the only remedy and gives us a secure identity in Christ. In this sermon we explore what it means to be United with Christ by grace through faith and the implications this has for our daily lives.
What if what you need is to be more inefficient with your life? While prayer might seem inefficient, prayer is partnering with the Spirit of God to move in a unique and powerful way. In this sermon, we look at what Paul prays for and how and why this should shape the Spirit empowered prayers of God's people.
Every human being worships. The questions isn't if we worship but who or what we worship. In the opening lines of Ephesians, the apostle Paul unpacks the glorious truths of what the Triune God has done for our salvation with the goal that we might worship Him more fully and deeply.
When the gospel came to Ephesus in the first century AD, a riot broke out. The good news of Jesus upended pagan ways of thinking and living. A similar confrontation awaits us as we encounter Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. This glorious epistle challenges us to ponder the story we're living in, the purpose we're pursuing, and the relationships we're building along the way. In this series, we see how gospel doctrine ignites renewal and love as we get swept up in God’s purpose to unite and fill all things in Jesus Christ.
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