Philippians 1:6
Good morning! It’s been a week since we last had breakfast together. Within the past week the landscape of my family has enlarged. We gained a lovely daughter-in-law, Brittany, and her family, for which we are very grateful. (more…)

Ephesians 5:26

The Bible compares our good works, laudable efforts, and superficial righteousness in a transparent analogy: “All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags.” Isaiah 64:6. (more…)

Ephesians 1:13, 14

Paul establishes the standard or criteria for the Ephesians at the outset of his epistle. He writes: “that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love.” Ephesians 1:4. (more…)

John 15:5-7; Ephesians 1

Today’s passage is a very familiar text to believers. It’s one that can be recited unconsciously from rote memory. Therein resides the insidious effect of lifeless familiarity with the power of Scriptural truth as the very words of God. (more…)

Ephesians 5:15-17

Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians is a powerful letter that is rich in theology as well as the essence of practical godliness. The themes are simultaneously sublime and extravagantly pragmatic in the Christian’s daily life. (more…)

Ephesians 3:16, 17

How do we move beyond being mere religion theorists; possessors of great truth, sacred knowledge, accurate information, and precise prophetic understanding? Is there any significance and application that connects our profession with life’s challenges? (more…)

Ephesians 2:7-10

It is essential for apprentices of Jesus Christ to believe and expect Him to do exactly what He has promised in his Word. While this may not be a novel concept for Christians, it may be a new relational experience- believing and expecting God to fulfill His Word. (more…)

Ephesians 1:17-22

What’s the source of the New Life that’s described in the Scriptures? We know we are to live by the Spirit, but what is the point of origin that generates this new existence that we are admonished to participate in? (more…)

Galatians 5:16; Ephesians 1:11

Paul commanded the church then and now to “Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.” Galatians 5:16. His proposition is evident that life in the Spirit guarantees true freedom from the penalty, guilt, and punishment of sin. (more…)

Galatians 5:16-18, 25

The power and compulsion of addiction can rule with impunity and autonomy in the life of the unprotected soul. The person entangled by its gravitational pull remains helpless and subjected to a certain demise until intervention is experienced. (more…)