Nov 5, 2018 | Word Among Us
Stop bullying, knowing that both they and you have a Master in heaven and that with him there is no partiality. The Letter to the Ephesians was written during a period when at least one out of every three people in the Roman Empire was a slave. Slavery was an...
Nov 3, 2018 | Word Among Us
The two shall become one flesh. When Paul talks about two becoming one flesh, he is referring back to the story of creation in the Book of Genesis. It’s a beautiful image, one that describes the kind of love and single-mindedness that God wants for every married...
Nov 2, 2018 | Word Among Us
A woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a spirit. Imagine how this woman’s affliction affected her everyday life. She couldn’t look up at the sky. She needed help to reach items over her head. It was next to impossible to find a...
Nov 1, 2018 | Word Among Us
Do you think they were more guilty than everyone else? When something bad happens to you, are you ever tempted to think, “Maybe I deserve this; maybe God is punishing me because of some sin I have committed”? Or maybe a similar thought crosses your mind when you...
Oct 31, 2018 | Word Among Us
. . . striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace. Like many of the early churches, the Ephesian church was diverse. It included Jews and non-Jews, along with a mixture of slaves and free people (Ephesians 6:8). The Jews would have...
Oct 30, 2018 | Word Among Us
I kneel before the Father. In the church of first-century Ephesus, a community of Jews and Greeks, prayer was part of the rhythm of life. But for both the groups, praying to God as “Father” would have been a new thing. Greeks would have thought of their gods as...
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