Ephesians 2: 8-10; James 2: 14-19; Mark 12: 29-31 Have you heard of people needing to keep a proper “work-life balance”? This means that work doesn’t so consume you that you forget […]
We are God’s artful expression of himself. We are created to be able to make decisions, to create and appreciate art in all its forms, to enjoy humor, to be able to play, to love, to hug, to reason. Those are all factors that surpass what could have been a plain narrative of our lives and of our existence.
What is sin? What is grace? And how are those two concepts related? Ephesians 2: 1-7. Study – Part 9
Ephesians 1: 22-23: Ephesians Study – Part 8 How often do church buildings – and the churches’ members themselves – become a fortress to guard against those on the “outside”? And how […]
Study in Ephesians (Ephesians 1: 19-23) – Part 7 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel was looking for ways to harness the explosive power of unstable nitroglycerin more safely. In 1867, Nobel invented dynamite […]
A Study in Ephesians 1: 15-21 – Part 6 How do you know God? Some people say they encounter God in nature, some through meditation. Others say they know God through the […]
Ephesians 1: 3-14 (Study of Ephesians – Part 5 Your life has a story. It is your story and no one else’s. Your story is special only to you, as painful or […]
Study of Ephesians – Part 4 Greek was the language of commerce in the Roman Empire at the time of the writings of the New Testament, much like English is in much […]
Ephesians Study – Part 3 It is not my intent to go through the book of Ephesians verse-by-verse. However, how often do we skip over the salutations at the very beginning of […]
The Great Mystery of the Ages When one begins to get into a study of the messages in Ephesians, one runs smack-dab (US English for “right in the middle of”) the question […]
Clear the Murk 