Ephesians
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Ephesians 4:17-24 – The Call to Holiness
There is a father and son at the beach. The father is a couple of hundreds yards out to sea. The depth of the water is up to the father’s…
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Ephesians 4:7-16 – An Effective Measure of Grace
I remember Christmas as a child. My parents would think about what would best suit me for a present. It was not always what I asked for. Some of the…
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Ephesians 4:1-6 – The Worthy Walk
In the overhaul of the Queen Elizabeth (not the woman but the ship), a smoke stack was being removed and as it was set down, it collapsed. The entire stack…
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Ephesians 3:14-21 – A Prayer for God’s Self-Revelation
Imagine that you are a jewelry clerk in a store. Someone comes in to your store and says, “I would like to buy something for a friend to bless him.”…
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Ephesians 3:1-13 – The Mystery of Christ
Did you ever start to say something to someone and then realize that before you tell them what you are about to tell them they really should have some background…
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Ephesians 2:11-22 – The Church: Three Wonderful Facets (Part 3)
As we are getting closer to enter into a building project of our own it is interesting to see the way in which Paul describes the true church, that body…
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Ephesians 2:11-22 – The Church: Three Wonderful Facets (Part 2)
When a doctor seeks to transplant an organ into a person’s body he is really seeking to minimize the hostility between the two to try to get them to live…
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Ephesians 2:11-22 – The Church: Three Wonderful Facets (Part 1)
New! That word is the advertiser’s cliché. People are always looking for something new or improved. In this paragraph the apostle Paul is beginning to describe the new entity that…
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Ephesians 2:1-10 – Wanted: Dead to Alive (Part 3)
I have always loved the climax of a good story. In first-class literature there is suspense and tension that begins to build up until that time that the resolution of…
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Ephesians 2:1-10 – Wanted: Dead to Alive (Part 2)
As we look further into this passage today and see the movement of ourselves from death to life we will notice that at the center of it all is God.…