Walking in a manner worthy of our calling in Christ means fighting to preserve the peace, which is grounded in the "Ones."

God's plan from eternity is to fill the whole creation with His glorious image, a plan accomplished in Christ and worked out through the Church, as we are conformed to His image and win the nations for Him.

The process of sanctification for Christ's church is nothing less than the process of draining the swamp of her sin and filling her with the power and glory of Christ's love till the church be fully mature, filled with God Himself.

God has brought Gentiles into the Abrahamic covenant so that we are now, by Christ's blood, fellow citizens with our Jewish brethren and are being built up with them into an eternal dwelling for God. Hallelujah!

Prayer is the language of faith, and it is essential to God's glorious plan of redemption. But how does it work? And why don't we pray more? Do we truly believe in the power of prayer?

God wants us to be raptured with the new life He has given us in Christ so that after rehearsing our past life of sin we can more fully revel in His grace towards us and recommit to walk in good works. 

God has blessed us lavishly in Christ (Eph. 1:3-14) and yearns for us to grasp the fullness of that blessing, seen especially in His power to raise sinners from death to a totally new and exalted life in Christ.

We must walk in unity because we are in fact unified, having been blessed by God the Father who has chosen us in Christ to receive a common redemption, inheritance and pledge, all received by faith in Christ. 

Those who are in Christ, part of the new man called the church, are those full of Christ and therefore full of His peace, continually working as peacemakers in His body.

The only bride fitting for a king is exceedingly excellent in character and worthy of eternal praise.