Kingdom Vineyard

Ephesians 5:1-12

Love, Lust, and Light: Kingdom culture in a Darkened World.

In this passage, St Paul digs in to some of the details of what the Kingdom of God looks like: the kind of life the church should display, both in a fallen world, and in the “Heavenly Places.”

Ephesians 4: 17-5:2

A ‘how’ of holiness

How does a list of “dos and don’ts” relate to the good news that Jesus has saved us, and chosen us to partner with Him on His grand mission?

Ephesians 4: 1-16

How to grow up in Christ

In today's passage, Paul encourages the Church to be a unified body, built up and sustained by God’s self-giving love and the gifts of the Spirit, so that the Church can grow up together into the image of the one true human, Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 3:14-21

O Wonderful Love!

Paul prays for the readers of this letter that they may know and be rooted in God's love and we need this to live the life that God intends for us.

Ephesians 3: 1-13

Paul’s Call (and God’s Eternal Plan to Confront the powers & Principalities.

The first half of Ephesians 3 seems, at first glance, to be a distracted aside... but instead Paul is continuing to build his argument that God's plan is unity of all things under Christ, with implications for the powers and principalities in the heavenly places!

Ephesians 2: 8-22

What the church really is.

Caitlin takes us through the second half of chapter 2 and looks at what it has to teach us about unity in the church.

Ephesians 2:1-10

Our New Status in Christ

What does it mean to be made alive in Christ? What does it mean for us to be God’s handiwork? Lucy unpacks Paul's teaching on the new status we receive in Christ and what that means for us today.

Ephesians 1: 7-23

Paul's prayer for the church in Ephesus (and for us!) is for more than our comfort with Him, it's for partnership in a huge and wonderful project!

Ephesians 1:1-14

Tessa looks at Paul's opening blessing to God, and how it tells the story of God's choice from before the foundations of the world to unite all things in himself through the person of Jesus Christ. And how we, his people, were chosen to live in such a way that bears witness to this glorious reality to the rest of the world.