Every Christian needs to be a committed and engaged part of a local church. The majority of what we are told to do in the New Testament makes no sense and is impossible without committed relationships with other Christians in a church body. For a couple years now, this has been a theme of our […]
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Preaching from Ephesians 3:14-19 made me want a tangible experience of its blessings (see “Ephesians 3:14-19 // Expanding Our Vision for Christian Life“). I want to feel the Father strengthening me with power. I want to sense Christ dwelling in my heart. I want the emotions that I imagine correlate with being filled with all
You may have heard that the average human being only uses 10% of their brain. Turns out, this is a total myth – it’s not true. But as we think about Ephesians 3:14-19, could it be that the average Christian only experiences 10% of the blessings available through Jesus Christ? Through Jesus, we’ve been reconciled
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When God calls you to Himself through Jesus Christ, He simultaneously calls you into Christian ministry. All Christians are called into ministry. There’s not some Christians who are called into ministry and other Christians who are called to just sort of be along for the ride. If you are a Christian, you are a minister.
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Christians are not only reconciled to God, but also to His people. God is not saving a constellation of individual Christians encapsulated from one another, He is saving a people, gathering a nation – and you’ll never understand who you are or what you are as a Christian if you think of yourself only
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The book of Ephesians is mainly about the good news of Jesus Christ, and one of the applications of that is peace. In one of it’s first verses, Paul writes, “Grace to you and peace . . .” (1:2). You get the sense that the Holy Spirit, while inspiring Paul to write this, is trying to