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Ephesians 3:14-21

One of the core questions we must ask ourselves on our journey of faith is: How do we get what we know about God in our heads down into our hearts? In today's passage, Paul models for us a way to pray that helps us not just get the Gospel known, but get it lived.

Ephesians 2:11-3:13

The world today is just as divided as ever before. We create ism's and phobia's that categorize people as the "others" to be avoided. But the Gospel calls us to something different, something more. Paul makes the case to the church in Ephesus that Jesus' finished work on the cross has destroyed every wall of hostility that divided us, from Jew to Gentile and beyond. This week, we explore God's heart for unity among diversity in the body of Christ.

Continuing the theme of spiritual maturity, Dan Fang reflects this week on some of the biggest barriers we might face in our spiritual growth. Especially if we’ve been Christian for many years and notice that we still seem to be “stuck” in the same place, or still drinking the spiritual milk referenced in Hebrews 5, it may be worth evaluating whether any of the following barriers to spiritual maturity need to be addressed. They include church hurt, our environment, busyness, distraction, and isolation.

Ephesians 2:10

Have you ever found yourself asking: "God, what is your will for my life?" Some of us hear that God has a plan for our lives and it doesn't feel like a blessing, it feels like a burden. We live anxiously because we're afraid that we'll make a wrong turn and veer off of the will of God. But God doesn't call us to live that way. This week, we explore God's will for our lives and what it means that you and I are God's poem.

Ephesians 2:1-10

When we talk about living, what we’re often talking about is existence. But when God talks about living, He's talking about something so much more, an abundant life. But there are three enemies of the soul that keep us from the life God promised us: the devil, the flesh, and the world. How do we overcome these enemies to truly live? And perhaps more importantly, what has Jesus done so that we can have life to the full?

Ephesians 1:15-23

Paul continues His letter to the church in Ephesus with a prayer. He prays that as follower of Jesus, we would know these four things: to know Him, to know the hope to which we were called, to know the riches of His glorious inheritance, and to know the immeasurable greatness of His power. What would our lives look like if we truly knew these things? How different would we walked in the same power that raised Jesus from the dead?

Ephesians 1:3-14

Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus opens with an epic prayer. It’s a prayer that celebrates the bigger story within which every one of our stories is a part of. We come to find that this story is not so much about what we have to do to get into God's good graces, and more about what God has done to welcome us into His blessing.

Ephesians 1:1-2

We begin a new collection of teachings on the book of Ephesians. Ephesians opens our imaginations to what growing up and maturing in Christ could look like. While the church in Ephesus got off to a powerful start, we later read in Revelation that they had lost their first love along the way. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and very little about how it might continue. How do we recapture first love? And how do we sustain and grow in love on the journey of life?