Sermons in Ephesians

As Ephesians comes to a close, Paul brings us as Christians to the realization that in all of these things that he's spoken about we are in a spiritual battle.

Paul addresses himself to slaves and masters but if what he says is true for slaves and masters how much more so for us who are freely contracted to work.

In a Spirit-filled family, children obey their parents in the Lord and fathers do not provoke their children to anger but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Paul's command to be filled with the Spirit means to continually abide with and to walk under the influence of the Spirit's power and authority.

Paul's metric of church growth is Christ himself. We are to grow up into the fullness of Christ by walking with and wearing Christ. These are metaphors for repentance.

Every part of the body needs to function properly for the body to be healthy and capable. Love loosens the joints in the body motivating us to take action and to serve the church.

Unity in Christ does not mean perfect agreement or the absence of differences; it means community in the midst of differences.

To comprehend the love of God we must first grapple with the love that moved God to come into the world to become a sin offering.

God is uniting all things in heaven and on earth through the church and making a new humanity composed of Jews and Gentiles united.

The solution to world peace is not found in altering man’s socio-economic conditions; the problem is man himself. Man’s hostility toward God is at the heart of the human condition.

The Bible paints a stark picture of man's bleak condition in sin. Against this backdrop, we recognize the awesome riches of God's love, mercy and kindness in the gospel.

God's purpose in our election is not that we may rest complacently in our sense of calling, but that we may boldly assert Christ's ownership claim over the whole earth.