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Pastors Scott, Maritza, and Eric join Andrew for this midweek discussion of Sunday's message on Ephesians 5, emphasizing that biblical marriage is built on mutual submission, respect, sacrificial love, and covenant oneness under Christ’s lordship—not control, manipulation, or cultural stereotypes. The pastors emphasize that healthy marriage requires intentionality, gratitude, forgiveness, honoring one another as children of God, and relying on the Holy Spirit to live selflessly.

Pastor Maritza preached from Ephesians 5:21–33, emphasizing that Christian marriage is meant to reflect Christ and the Church through mutual submission, sacrificial love, service, and reverence for Jesus. She urged husbands and wives—and all believers—to reject cultural distortions of marriage, surrender to Christ’s lordship, die to selfishness, and let their relationships display God’s grace, protection, forgiveness, and love.

The sermon teaches from Ephesians 5 that marriage is God’s covenant design, built on mutual submission, sacrificial love, respect, humility, forgiveness, and keeping Christ at the center. Pastor Eric challenges husbands, wives, and singles to reject selfishness, pursue restoration, communicate, compromise, and prepare to love and serve one another according to God’s Word.

Pastor Scott taught from Ephesians 5:21–33, emphasizing that God’s design for marriage begins with mutual submission “out of reverence for Christ,” not selfishness, control, or weaponizing Scripture. He encouraged wives to respect and voluntarily cooperate with their husbands’ leadership, husbands to love their wives sacrificially as Christ loved the church, and singles to prepare for marriage by learning God’s design now.

Evangelist Greg Hubbard shares a message based on Psalm 126 about the importance of missions and all people hearing the gospel message.

Andrew talks with Pastors Eric and Rodney about powerful stories from their recent Baptism Sunday across all campuses, highlighting life change testimonies and the significance of water baptism as a public declaration of faith. They then unpack Ephesians 5:15–20, focusing on walking in wisdom, using time well, avoiding anything that masters us (like alcohol, fear, or pride), cultivating thankfulness, and relying on Scripture, the Holy Spirit, and Christian community to live out a Spirit‑filled life.

Pastor Maritza shares from Ephesians 5 during this series, encouraging believers to encourage one another, be discipled, grow in their faith, and make Jesus known. Christ calls us to be his witnesses.

Pastor Eric preached from Ephesians 5:15–20, urging believers to “be very careful how you live” by walking in wisdom, redeeming the limited time God gives, and seeking true wisdom from Scripture—especially Proverbs—rather than from culture or social media. He challenged the church to avoid foolishness (including drunkenness), be continually filled with the Holy Spirit, live as useful “tools” in God’s hands for others’ good, and cultivate a habit of daily gratitude and praise to God in every season.

Pastor Scott teaches from Ephesians 5 that believers must live wisely and carefully—redeeming the time, rejecting foolishness and drunkenness, and actively seeking God’s will through Scripture, holiness, and Spirit-filled living. He urges constant gratitude, intentional witness to “one more” person, and invites those far from God to repent and place their faith in Jesus for forgiveness and new life.

Pastors Scott, Eric, and Maritza join Andrew to explore some key themes from Ephesians—anger, forgiveness, sexual purity, and greed—discussing that believers must uncover the heart roots of these sins, refuse even small compromises, take practical and sometimes drastic steps to flee them, practice generous giving and open accountability, and forgive others as fully as Christ has forgiven us in order to walk in true freedom.