Last week, in our first week of exploring the nature and practice of the Church, we spent our time together looking at the Majesty of the Church and, while we often can feel fairly “un-majestic”, we saw that our majesty is rooted in God’s view of us… not in our own. In His calling us…
Over the last few months, we have taken the opportunity to reflect upon our call to follow Jesus…to become like Him. We have looked at the benefits of becoming like Him and the means God provides to transform us into His image. We looked at the opposition we face in the process… from the lies…
Last week we examined how a church could fail in its commitment to follow Jesus and the results of that failure. This week we are going to look at an institution that, by its very nature, fails to follow Jesus…the kingdom of this world. We could call this institution…this group…many things. They could be referred…
In past weeks we have looked at the process through which we are transformed into the likeness of Christ through the lens of Paul’s prayer for the Ephesian believers in Eph 3. After that, for the last couple of weeks, it seemed advisable to ask ourselves the question, “What if we fail to follow…
Last week we asked the questions, “What if we don’t participate in the process of becoming like Jesus? What if we don’t yield our will and spirit to the Spirit of Christ? What if we don’t want… or choose… to be transformed into the image of Christ? What if we deliberately fail to follow Jesus?…
Over the last several weeks we have looked together at Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians, found in Eph 3:14-21. The reason we have taken time to go over it in a fair amount of detail is that the prayer gives an outline of how we can become successful in the Christian life…victorious in our walk…
Well, this evening we come to our final study in the series of becoming like Jesus. I hope you have enjoyed and been edified by the truths we have uncovered together in the last several weeks. In our study of Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3:16ff., we have looked into how God transforms us into the…
As we have spent time together over the last few weeks, we have had opportunity to reflect and meditate on some wonderful truths in God’s Word. We have looked at the believer’s identity and resources in Christ, where we find the basis for our hope and our understanding of who, and whose, we are. We…
This evening we are continuing in our study of ephesians 3 14-21 paul’s prayer on behalf of the ephesian believers in this prayer we find how god brings us to the point of being filled with the fullness of god being filled with his spirit it is this process that gives us the power to…
hey folks it’s good to be with you again this week to open god’s word together i am also excited for the opportunity to finally meet in person once again when we come together at the church property on june 7th it has been far too long last week we spent quite a bit of…
