In Ephesians 4:25-32, Paul spells out in specific terms what’s life-diminishing and what’s life-enhancing. He gets practical. He tells us what to do and what not to do. What to do and what not to do have very much to do with how we treat people....

Sin has its allure. We have all heard it, felt it, and capitulated to it at least to some degree. Some have capitulated to sin in ways that changed the course of their lives—and not for the better. How do we resist sin, and what measures can we...

The primary biblical metaphor used to describe the church is a body. Often times, however, we don’t understand how this body really works. What is its purpose? How does it grow? What happens when it gets sick? We find the answer to these questions...

To wrap up the first half of Ephesians, the apostle Paul offers a beautiful prayer. At the heart of his request is for followers of Jesus to know the unknowable love of Christ. But he acknowledges that we need strength from God to do so. Let's see...

In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul has been building up to this. There’s a mystery that he reveals in Ephesians 3:1-13. He calls it “the mystery of Christ.” Well, what is it?

These verses provide one of the richest explanations of unity in the entire New Testament. Using the imagery of a building, the apostle Paul describes how two groups of people, separated by centuries of hostility, are brought together as one new...

Do you find yourself living anxiously? Does everything seem to depend on you? Are you trying hard and wearing yourself out? Ephesians 2:1-10 can bring about a soul-transforming reorientation.

Do we appreciate what we have in Christ? Do we even know what we have? Thankfully, God gives us his Holy Spirit to enlighten the eyes of our hearts.

As we kick off a new series in the book of Ephesians, we immediately encounter the mystery of God's will. This book focuses on who we are in Christ and how to live out that identity. But it also describes a mystery that is bigger than grander than...

In Psalm 23, David uses first-person singular pronouns such as “I,” “me,” and “my” a staggering seventeen times in a mere six verses. It’s an intensely personal psalm, which means it can be an intensely personal psalm for us.