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Ephesians #16 - God's Design for Marriage
November 18, 2018 • Dr. Ray Ortlund Jr.
Ephesians 5:22-33 | RELATIONSHIPS | Marriage was designed by God to be an image of the greatest love ever known - the love Jesus has for us, the church. This section of Ephesians calls husbands and wives to love one another by following the example of Christ; experiencing both great sacrifice and great joy in the process. Please note: This video from the 2018 Acts 29 Conference in Gold Coast, Australia has been provided with permission from Acts 29 Network. For more information, visit http://www.acts29.com.
Ephesians #15 - Walking Wisely in Evil Days
November 11, 2018 • Sam Allberry
Ephesians 5:15-21 | HOLINESS | We would all like to see ourselves change for the better -- but when we try, we quickly find that changing ourselves in any fundamental way is impossible. The Holy Spirit alone is capable of changing us, but this requires us to give everything we are over to Jesus. No area of your life will be improved by holding it back from Jesus… and no area of your life will be worsened by flooding it with the presence of the Spirit.
Ephesians #14 - Love, Sex, and Living as Children of Light
November 4, 2018
Ephesians 5:1-14 | HOLINESS | When it comes to living a life set apart to God in the midst of our sin-fractured world, Paul has three things to say: remember your adoption into God's family, walk in love, and walk in the light.
Epheisans #13 - A Tenderhearted People
October 28, 2018 • Darren Dakers
Ephesians 4:25-32 | HOLINESS | In this section of Ephesians, Paul describes how conflict in the church can be handled in a loving and constructive manner, or how it can lead to devastation. What does it look like for your pride to be set aside when real offense and anger arises? How can we love one another even though we will inevitably sin against each other?
Ephesians #12 - The Old Self and the New Self
October 21, 2018 • Kyllum Lewis
Ephesians 4:17-24 | HOLINESS | As Christians we are called to live a renewed and transformed life. Paul calls Christians to both: leave our dark-minded and deceived past, and to assume a new life of righteousness and holiness in God. This change is not something we accomplish by our own strength or determination, but through a renewing work of the Spirit that gradually conforms us to the image of Christ.
Ephesians #11 - A Church that is Maturing
October 14, 2018
Ephesians 4:11-16 | THE CHURCH | A healthy church is one with leaders who equip God’s people, with God’s Word, for God’s work. And in turn, God’s people together give themselves to outward-facing lives of ministry and service. A church growing in maturity is building itself up with every member’s gifts, deepening in sound doctrine, and speaking gospel-truths to one another that are laced with love.
Ephesians #10 - A Church that is Unified in the Spirit
October 7, 2018
Ephesians 4:1-10 | THE CHURCH | Self-importance, self-righteousness, and forcefulness have no place among the God’s people. A church that truly believes the soaring doctrines of grace, will be unmistakably marked by a culture of graciousness. Here, the Apostle Paul shows us that a healthy church is one where humility, gentleness, and patience with one another is normal; where unity in Christ is treasured; and where God’s people partner together in using their gifts to build one another up and glorify God.
Ephesians #9 - A Church that Prays for Power
September 30, 2018
Ephesians 3:14-21 | THE CHURCH | The well-known prayer in this passage from Paul, shows us what authentic, theologically-robust, deeply experiential Christianity looks like. Paul prays that the Church would be strengthened with power, that we would know the immeasurable love of Christ, and that we’d be filled with all the fullness of God. Paul wants us to know that God’s capacity to give goes far beyond our capacity to ask, and knowing this will radically changes the way we pray!
Ephesians #8 - A Church that Reveals Christ
September 23, 2018
Ephesians 3:1-13 | THE CHURCH | The grace of God is not merely the entry point into the Christian life; it is the limitless fuel of the Christian life! Every part of our lives now orbits around the incredible news of what Jesus has done for us. And when the Church has this message of God’s grace on repeat, she becomes a message of grace — a living sermon — for the entire world to see.
Ephesians #7 - A Church that Exists for God
September 16, 2018
Ephesians 2:19-22 | THE CHURCH | To be a Christian means not only being saved from something (sin and hell), but into something. And that diverse, beautiful, often-messy, global people of God is called, ‘the Church.’ What is the Church? And what should the Church look like? Paul gives us three metaphors to help us understand this reality: (1) In Christ, we are fellow-citizens; (2) In Christ, we are family, (3) In Christ, we are a holy temple, the dwelling place of God.