Holy Hypocrites

Ephesians 5:1-21. In Christ, we find the color we want to be… and the rest of our lives as his disciples should be spent holding up different things against what scripture tells us about Christ, and whittling down what matches.

Psalm 38. Simple. You need God. I need God. We need God for every single thing… Don’t mourn that fact but celebrate who God is, that he does provide, and instead of banging on the doors he has closed, look forward to the doors he is opening for you this very week…

Ephesians 4:25-32. When we realize its all for God’s glory, and we aren’t fighting for every scrap of glory for ourselves, then we can live honestly, and build others up. We first needed grace and forgiveness and tenderness, and the very one we rejected and disobeyed with our sin, he gave freely.

Ephesians 4:17-24. What sets you apart from the world? How are we reflecting the world, with its sensuality, greed, and impurity… or how are we reflecting Christ? 

Ephesians 4:7-16. Let me say this clearly. The mission you have been given as a follower of Jesus - to go and make disciples - have been fully planned and supplied by God. So any success we have is not to our credit. It’s not because we are awesome, and God wants to use us because of what we can do but what he can do through us.

Ephesians 4:1-6. You were called into fellowship with Christ… that’s permanent, eternal calling, regardless of jobs that come and go, relationships that come and go, money, possessions that come and go… How do you walk in that?

Psalm 37. Easier said than done, but trust and wait. I think of the disciples in the boat during the storm, and Jesus was sleeping, and their panic as they woke him with “dont you care that we are perishing?!?!” He cares. He knows, he delivers and he saves…

Ephesians 3:14-21. On Tuesday, I asked you to pick a person and start praying for them intentionally. Did you do that? Because today, we take it up a notch. I challenge you to pray these verse over that person.

Ephesians 3:1-13. God’s grace was a gift. Paul’s preaching even is a gift of grace, from God. As he says in 11, this is all according to God’s purpose, realized in Christ Jesus…

Ephesians 2:11-22. Remember, you were once separated, alienated as Paul says, cut off from God. And by no action of yours, you were given the opportunity to know him…