We said a few weeks ago that one of Paul's primary reasons for writing Ephesians was that knowing God would be our ultimate goal. It is so easy for us to have other primary goals, and most of the time these goals are good things. In this message we ask the question, "What happens when we make something other than knowing God our primary goal?

Predestination has always been a controversial subject. But because Paul talked about it, we should too. In this message we'll seek to take an objective look at both sides of the issue, and conclude what this means for us as followers of Jesus.

This week we dive into Ephesians. One of the major themes of Ephesians is that God desires to be known. Not just known about, but intimately known. In this first message we look at some of the amazing blessings that God has poured out on His people. These blessings should cause us to hunger and thirst after the Father, and should overflow into worshiping Him.

We kick off our series on Ephesians by looking at how Paul came to start the church in Ephesus. Paul went to Ephesus at the start of his third missionary journey, and ended up staying there longer than he had stayed just about anywhere. During his time there God did what only God could do, and Acts 19:10 says that "all the residents of Asia heard the world of the Lord." Five years later, under house arrest in Rome, Paul writes a beautiful letter to them. Over the next few months we're going to be digging into this letter.

As we prepare for our series on Ephesians, here are some practical principles for studying the Bible.

In our final message on our journey through Luke's Gospel, we go back to the mission of God and look at how Jesus sent His earliest followers and how He sends us today.

When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray, what they got was far more than a prayer. Jesus was teaching them how to practically live out all that he had been teaching them about God's reign: the Kingdom of God.

In this message Joe and Susan Currier share how the call to discipleship has been playing out in their lives over the last few months.

In this message we look at the fact that true discipleship is costly. Jesus tells his followers to consider that cost and then to make a choice as to whether or not we will follow him.

Joe concludes our series on suffering by looking at Jesus' habit of getting alone with God. We see two spiritual disciplines at work in Jesus' life, and especially during Jesus' time in the wilderness in Luke 4. Those disciples are meditation on Scripture and solitude.