Posts with the category “ephesians-fall-2026”

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 6:1–91 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. 5 Bondservants, obey your earthly master...  Read More

Louise Perry was raised in a vaguely Christian environment but never read the Bible and was never exposed to Christianity in a direct way. In her own words she became “an annoying atheist” as a young teenager after reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. As a young person growing up in this secular environment, Louise had little reason to question the assumptions of liberal, “sex-positive” fe...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 5:22–3322 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 tha...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 5:15–2115 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing ...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 5:1–14Walk in Love1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 3 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. 4 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 4:25–3225 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 4:17–24The New Life17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to p...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 4:7–167 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8 Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”  9 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heave...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 4:1–6I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 3:14–21- Prayer for Spiritual Strength14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded i...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 3:7–137 Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power. 8 To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created al...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 3:1–61 For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— 2 assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you, 3 how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. 4 When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, 5 which was not made known to the so...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 2:19–2219 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 2:11–1811 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 2:1–10And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 1:15–23Thanksgiving and Prayer15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, 16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 having the eyes of y...  Read More

1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 1:3–143 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his w...  Read More

These opening lines look like a standard letter greeting. But when we unpack the words, Paul is setting up a massive foundation for our identity. He shows us who God is, who we are, and how those two truths fit together. 1. SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 1:1–2 1. Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: 2. Grace to you and peace...  Read More

INTRODUCTION “A Journey Through Ephesians to Discover God’s plan for His church!”    Over the next six weeks, we will journey through the book of Ephesians and discover what it means to be ROOTED. WALKING. STANDING.  We will begin by becoming ROOTED in who we are in Christ—discovering God’s grace, His purpose, and what He has done for us. From there, we will learn to WALK in our new life, allowing...  Read More