God wants us to please Him and understand His will. Nothing can cloud clarity and experiencing God’s love than getting into sin. Sin keeps us in darkness while holiness brings the light. As we move toward holiness we can walk exactly and understand the will of God.

We now come to the point in the book of Ephesians where we can focus on what we should do with the reality of life in Christ. God is doing something special in the church and we get to be a part of this movement.

God's plan since the beginning of times was to save the world. The covenant and promise to Abraham (Genesis 12) is fulfilled through Christ. This is our purpose in the church. To take the grace, peace, hope Paul describes in Ephesians 1-2 and share that with the world.

We live in a divided world. This division exists in our hearts, our families, our neighborhoods and our church. This sermon will focus on how Christ gives us peace and an escape from the hostility that comes from division.

We all long for purpose, but without Christ and His free gift of grace, we cannot overcome our sin or sense of direction. This sermon will focus on how to experience grace and extend grace so we can fulfill God's purpose in our lives.

When we root ourselves to this world, our plans, the future, we are left choked out without an anchor and real substance. This takes away our hope because the things of this world change and pass away. However, God, through Christ has given us another option. To root ourselves back to our Maker where life and purpose can be found.

There are consequences to unforgiveness, and it is important for us to understand the consequences of unforgiveness so that we see the importance of forgiving others freely.

The forgiveness of sins is at the heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ and biblical community. John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." God sent his only son to die on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins. He forgave us when we didn't deserve it. And that should fuel God's people to be a people that forgive one another freely. We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive people out of a deep gratitude for how much God has forgiven us.

Prayer is talking to God and listening to him. And he wants us to do that all the time. He wants us to spend our day coming back to him over and over again in prayer like how we invest in other relationships. And this constant prayer is a lifeline to God's people and it molds us into people who are hopeful towards the future.

This message will focus on what it looks like to be patient in suffering.