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October 26, 2025The New Self | Brian Sorgenfrei
Scripture Reference: Ephesians 4:17-32
How does change happen in the Christian Life? Paul in Ephesians 4 says it involves a putting off and a putting on. But what’s so encouraging is that the life you are putting on actually is the life that fits the person who is united to Christ. It’s a life of truth, kindness, generosity, and forgiveness.
Sermon Points:
The Old Self (vv.17-22)
The New Self (vv. 23-32)
31 min
October 19, 2025E Pluribus Unum | Les Newsom
Scripture Reference: Ephesians 4:1-16
You don’t have to be a philosophy major to understand how complicated the problem of the “one and the many” is for even daily life. But Paul launches straight into the topic of Christian unity in Ephesians 4, making it a top priority for God’s people to work towards if we hope to be a maturing church.
Sermon Points:
Understand Unity
Embrace Diversity
Grow Into Maturity
32 min
October 12, 2025Our Refuge & Strength | Scott Byrd
Scripture Reference: Psalm 46:1-11
When life gets turned upside down, we have a God who is a mighty refuge. In the midst of crisis we can rely on a strong God because He became weak and a present God because He was forsaken.
Sermon Points:
A Perilous World
A Powerful God
A Present God
33 min
October 05, 2025Bowing The Knee | Les Newsom
Scripture Reference: Ephesians 3:14-21
What do you think the Apostle Paul would pray if you could hear him offer a prayer for you? The end of Ephesians 3 is just that. What he gives us, therefore, is the idealized version of how every Christian should live their lives, especially as it pertains to how love transforms our “inner world.”
Sermon Points:
Have Strength
Know Love
Be FullBowing The Knee
30 min
September 28, 2025Telling Secrets | Les Newsom
Scripture Reference: Ephesians 3:1-13
Add the wonder of Paul’s description of the church in God’s eternal plan together with the immensity of the blessings afforded to those “in Christ,” and Paul realizes that he has something that people need to know. The first half of Ephesians 3 is highly instructive of an evangelism that isn’t packaged but full of joy.
Sermon Points:
Mission Motivation
Humble Confidence
Corporate Thinking
Captivated Imagination
31 min
September 21, 2025Unlocking the Mystery: Killing The Hostility | Brian Sorgenfrei
Scripture Reference: Ephesians 2:11-22
Sermon Points:
Hostility Remembered (vv. 11-12, 14)
Hostility Killed (vv. 13-16)
Hostility Transformed (vv. 17-22)
30 min
September 14, 2025Dead Men Walking | Les Newsom
Scripture Reference: Ephesians 2:1-10
Having set out that heaven and earth will be reunited through God’s work through the church, Paul turns to how the world will be healed in YOU, a Christian. Turns out, he has to animate the “bad news” of the Gospel before we can really understand the “good news” of his grace, to be in union with Christ!
Sermon Points:
Man is Dead
God is Gracious
31 min
September 07, 2025Unlocking The Mystery: What Is Most Needed? | Brian Sorgenfrei
Scripture Reference: Ephesians 1:15-23
As the apostle Paul writes his letter to the Ephesian church, he is overwhelmed with gratitude and tells them how he is praying for them. In Paul’s prayer we see the unlocking of a mystery. What is most needed in all of our lives is NOT necessarily a chance in circumstances. No, what is most needed is to have the eyes of our heart enlightened so that we live according to what is unseen but real.
Sermon Points:
Knowledge (vs. 17)
Hope (vs. vs. 18)
Inheritance (vs. 18)
Power (vs. 19)
Church (vs. 22-23)
27 min
August 31, 2025Love That Will Not Let Me Go | Les Newsom
Scripture Reference: Ephesians 1:4,5,11
Watch lovers speak to each other and invariably the talk turns to other-worldly themes. We instinctively know that we were made to be loved outside of time. Paul is excited to say that a huge blessing of being “in Christ” is the knowledge that it was true before we were ever born.
Sermon Points:
The Doctrine
The Objections
The Blessings
28 min
August 24, 2025Turning The Gem | Les Newsom
Scripture Reference: Ephesians 1:3-14
The more overwhelming the site you’re describing, the more words you’ll throw at it to try to sum it up to those who’ll listen. Paul sits down to contemplate the blessings God’s people have in Christ and what follows is a litany of keywords about the Christian’s spiritual status in one long run-on sentence of pure joy.
Sermon Points:
Adoption
Redemption
Inheritance
31 min