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MESSAGE FOR MAY 15, 2022, FROM EPHESIANS 2:1-3 This morning, we move to a new chapter of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.  In chapter one that we finished last week, Paul prays for the church, and we repeatedly noted how this prayer is a great model for all of us to pray as we seek to know God better.  That is Paul’s driving concern—that the church of Christ would come to know God better.  … [Read more...] about EPHESIANS: “Depths of Depravity” (5/15/22)

MESSAGE FOR MAY 8, 2022, FROM EPHESIANS 1:19-23 Today we hope to finish chapter one in our study of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.  We’ve been looking at Paul’s prayer in this chapter that comes on the heels of his listing of spiritual blessings that God has given to his church.  The main burden Paul has in his prayer for the church is that these believers would have a deeper, richer, … [Read more...] about EPHESIANS: “Pauline Prayer – Part III” (5/8/22)

MESSAGE FOR MAY 1, 2022, FROM EPHESIANS 1:17-19 We continue this morning to work our way through Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.  To review, in the first major section of chapter one, we’ve seen that Paul lists some of the spiritual blessings that God has given to his children through Christ’s saving work.  We have been chosen before the foundation of the earth.  We have been predestined for … [Read more...] about EPHESIANS: “Pauline Prayer – Part II” (5/1/22)

MESSAGE FOR APRIL 27, 2022, FROM EPHESIANS 1:15-19 This morning, we pick up once again in our series of messages from Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus.  Before our break for holy week, we finished the first major section of the letter which, you may recall, is really, one very long sentence in the original language.  In verses 3-14, Paul included some pretty “dense” theology as he listed … [Read more...] about EPHESIANS: “Pauline Prayer” (4/24/22)

MESSAGE FOR RESURRECTION SUNDAY, 2022 FROM 1 COR. 15 This morning we want to look at the resurrection chapter in First Corinthians 15 where Paul defends the resurrection of Christ against the skeptics.  There were some in the Corinthian church who had real doubts about whether Christ truly, literally rose from the dead.  The Gentile world in which they lived scoffed at the notion of a dead … [Read more...] about Resurrection Sunday: “Evidence For The/Our Resurrection”(4/18/22)

MESSAGE FOR GOOD FRIDAY, 2022 As we do every Good Friday, today we want to focus on the cross of Christ but this afternoon, we want to look at the cross through the eyes of Jesus. We can know only a very small part of how he experienced the cross, but the gospel writers have given us some insight about his experience by recording his words as he was being crucified. The seven last words of Christ … [Read more...] about Good Friday 2022 – “The Seven Last Words” (4/15/22)