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Sunday Aug 22, 2021
Walking As Children of Light - Ephesians 5:1-17
Sunday Aug 22, 2021
Sunday Aug 22, 2021
Our new life in Christ should not only affect the way that we live with one another, but that our lives in the world ought to be like lights shining in the darkness, a visible testimony to everyone of the goodness and truth of Jesus Christ.
Our witness to the world is to invite them to CHRIST: to the love, the forgiveness, the life, and the hope that we have in Him. We do that with our words, but more than anything we testify with our lives.
And the light shines most brightly in our relationships: when we walk in God’s goodness…when we love one another as Christ loves us, living not to please ourselves but for the good of our brothers and sisters…when our conversation is filled with Christ and with encouragement for one another.
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
Putting On the New Self - Ephesians 4:17-32
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
Since the day that Adam and Eve were deceived in the Garden of Eden, the real problem of humanity has been in our hearts. We don’t need everything around us to change. We need everything within us to change.
And change is exactly what happens when we put our trust in Christ. But Paul reminds us in Ephesians 4 that when Christ makes us new, He doesn’t automatically zap us and force us to live in perfect harmony with one another.
He has begun a work in us which makes it possible to live together in the way that He calls us to live; but we have to respond to Him by intentionally walking in this newness of life.
And that new life is most clearly reflected in the transformed nature of our relationships within the family of God, the body of Christ.
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Growing In Grace Together - Ephesians 4:1-16
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Over and over, the New Testament writers stress that the quality of our relationship with God is revealed in how we live with one another. Love one another…encourage one another…pray for one another…lay down your lives for one another.
God knows us intimately, loves us tenderly, and cares for us personally, but salvation is not just about God rescuing the lives of individuals so they can relate with Him. When we get saved, we become members of God’s family, a family that includes a new Father and a new set of brothers and sisters.
And we can fulfill our reason for living only as we give ourselves to walk together to fulfill the common mission that He has given us.
Monday Jun 21, 2021
A Life Without Limits - Ephesians 3:14-21
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
We have been led to believe that life is all about what we can see right in front of us, and so we put our focus downward onto the temporary concerns of our temporary existence on this temporary planet which Jesus says will one day pass away.
We pour all of our time, energy, attention, and effort into trying to make the best of these few years that we have here in this life. We work, and save, and plan to make ourselves as comfortable as possible, to try to enjoy the time we’ve got as much as we can.
But God wants us to know that He has so much more for us than what we can see and hold and experience for a few moments today.
He is calling us to a life that can’t be measured, a life of a completely different quality, a life that lasts forever. That's what we were created for: specially designed to know God and to be filled with His life; custom-made to be perfectly loved and fully satisfied in Him.
Saturday Jun 12, 2021
A Family of Grace - Ephesians 2:11-22
Saturday Jun 12, 2021
Saturday Jun 12, 2021
History has proved over and over again that people’s attempts at creating peace on their own always ends up in failure, in one way or another. Because hearts that haven’t been transformed, hearts that are still fighting for identity and value, will always end up in conflict of one kind or another.
Even those who say we just need to be tolerant of one another are incredibly Intolerant of anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
The problem is much deeper than some superficial decision to “just get along.” All the conflict in the world began when the individual hearts of men and women were deceived and decided that they wanted to be God.
So, the only solution is for those hearts to be transformed and the image of God renewed in them, for people to once again acknowledge and love GOD as God.
Only when that happens will human relationships have the ability to find true healing and peace. And in Christ, that is exactly what God has done for us.