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Ephesians
Contributed by David Taylor on Jan 21, 2025 (message contributor)
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1. Brought To Life; Brought Together Walking Worthy: Spirit Filled Gratitude
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
Spirit Filled people are grateful people.
We are continuing our series in Ephesians, Brought to Life; Brought Together. As we have said, Ephesians can be divided into two sections, chapters one through three describe what God has done in us through Christ while chapters four through six call us to live out what God has done in us. We are ...read more
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2. Brought To Life; Brought Together Walking Worthy: Spirit Filled Submission
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
My big idea is Spirit filled people are submissive people.
We are continuing our series in Ephesians, Brought to Life; Brought Together. As we have said, Ephesians can be divided into two sections, chapters one through three describe what God has done in us through Christ while chapters four through six call us to live out what God has done in us. We are ...read more
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3. Brought To Life; Brought Together Spirit Filled Living: Wives Respect Husbands Leadership
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
Today we are focusing on the wife’s role and responsibility in 5:22-24.
We are in chapter five of our series in Ephesians, Brought to Life; Brought Together as we continue looking at what Paul says about walking wisely and Spirit filled living. Last week we saw God’s vision for Marriage is to display Christ’s relationship with his church. The next few weeks we are ...read more
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4. Brought To Life; Brought Together Spirit Filled Living: A Husband’ S Love Ephesians 5:25-27
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
Today we see that God calls husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church (5:25-27). My big idea is pretty simple, Christ’s love for his church is the pattern for a husband’s love for his wife.
We are continuing our series in Ephesians, Brought to Life; Brought Together. We are in chapter five, where Paul discusses marriage. So far, we have looked at God’s vision for marriage to display Christ’s relationship with his church (5:31-32). Then we saw that God calls wives to respect and ...read more
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5. Brought To Life; Brought Together A Husband’s Love Ephesians 5:28-33
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
Today we look at how the marriage union is designed to reflect/display the church’s union with Christ (5:28-33).
We are finishing up chapter five of Ephesians in our series, Brought to Life; Brought Together. We started this section by looking at God’s vision of marriage, to display Christ’s relationship with his church (5:31-32). Then we looked at Paul’s instruction to wives to respect and follow their ...read more
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6. Brought To Life; Brought Together God’s Vision Of Marriage
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
. We begin a new section today on Spirit filled relationships including, marriage, family, and business. As we begin looking at the marriage relationship, I felt led to start with the foundation of marriage which describes God’s vision for marriage so we see the beauty of marriage.
If have your bible turn to Ephesians 5:22-33. We are continuing our series in Ephesians, Brought to Life; Brought Together. As we have said, Ephesians has two sections, chapters one through three describes what God has done in us through Christ while chapters four through six call us to live out ...read more
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7. Brought To Life; Brought Together Children, Obey Your Parents Ephesians 6:1-3
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
Paul instructs children to obey their parents
We are starting Ephesians chapter six today as we move from looking at what Paul said about the marriage relationship to what he says about family relationships. Today’s text is 6:1-3 and my message is entitled, Children Obey your Parents or Raising Obedient Children. The structure of the passage ...read more
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8. Brought To Life; Brought Together Disciple Your Children
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
As Christians, we should feel the weight of this calling and the hope of raising up your children to know and love and follow Christ.
We are continuing our series in Ephesians, Brought to Life; Brought Together. We are in Ephesians six today, looking at family relationships. Today’s message, Disciple your Children, is from 6:4. In 6:4, Paul tells us to nurture our children in the Lord, not by provoking them so they become ...read more
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9. Brought To Life; Brought Together Displaying Christ At Work
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
Today’s message is Displaying Christ at Work.
We are continuing our series in Ephesians, Brought to Life; Brought Together. We are in Ephesians 6:5-9, looking at the last relationship Paul addresses, calling slaves to submit to their masters. Today’s message is Displaying Christ at Work. In 6:5-9 Paul instructs both slaves and masters to ...read more
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10. Brought To Life; Brought Together Spiritual Warfare: Know Your Enemy
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
The deception we face as Christians is serious. Being ignorant of the Devil’s schemes makes you susceptible to his deception leading you away from your faith in Christ and faithfulness to Christ.
We are continuing our series in Ephesians, Brought to Life; Brought Together, beginning the final section, 6:10-20, addressing spiritual warfare. In 6:10-20 Paul’s instructs us to be strengthened in the Lord to stand against the deceitful schemes of the devil. We are going to spend several weeks ...read more
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11. Brought To Life; Brought Together Spiritual Warfare: The Armor Of God
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
. Our text today is 6:14-15, looking at The Armor of God, specifically, the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, and shoes of gospel peace.
Well, here we are again. We are live streaming for a number of reasons we stated in our weekly newsletter. A number or our church family, including ministry leaders and volunteers, have either been exposed to COVID or have tested positive for COVID severely limiting our ability to meet. As I ...read more
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12. Brought To Life; Brought Together Spiritual Warfare: The Shield Of Faith
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
Big Idea: Stand against Satan by faith, taking our thoughts captive to God’s word.
We are continuing our series in Ephesians, Brought to Life; Brought Together, looking at the spiritual battle we face in 6:10-20, which calls us to stand strong against Satan’s schemes by utilizing the armor of God (14). We are looking at the various pieces of armor and how it empowers us to stand ...read more
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13. Brought To Life; Brought Together Spiritual Warfare: Power In Prayer
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
. My big idea is, prayer is the power behind God’s armor.
We are in our last two weeks of our series in Ephesians, Brought to Life; Brought Together, looking at the spiritual battle we face in Ephesians 6:10-20. In these verses, Paul concludes his letter by calling us to be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. We do this by putting on ...read more
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14. Brought To Life; Brought Together Be An Encourager
Contributed on Jan 21, 2025
Paul’s love and concern for the church and his desire to encourage them with his final words.
We are finishing our series in Ephesians, Brought to Life; Brought Together, looking at Paul’s closing words in Ephesians 6:21-24. These verses describe why Paul sent Tychicus and closes with a benediction or blessing. They are filled with Paul’s love and concern for the church and his desire to ...read more