“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),”Ephesians 5:8-9 NKJV Reflection: how can darkness appear as light? As a brother in Christ and his wife were recently leaving a Sunday morning church
“For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.” Ephesians 5:5 NKJV Reflection: how can we lose our inheritance to the kingdom of heaven? In 2002, at around 30 years old, the princess of Norway decided to give
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“And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30 NKJV Reflection: what role does the Holy Spirit have in your life? “I have been thinking about what I said yesterday. And I was wrong. I realize I was being used by the evil
“Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.” Ephesians 4:17 ESV Reflection: who do you consider to be the “Gentiles”? We touched previously on the topic that God’s people are to be different than those who are of
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“So that we are no longer children [spiritually immature], tossed back and forth [like ships on a stormy sea] and carried about by every wind of [shifting] doctrine, by the cunning and trickery of [unscrupulous] men, by the deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything [for personal profit].” Ephesians 4:14 AMP Reflection: whom or
“There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”Ephesians 4:4-6 ESV Reflection: why has the church become a lucrative business for some?
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“I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,”Ephesians 4:1 ESV Reflection: who is actually the lord of your life? In the company I spent most of my career, we received a yearly training of “standards of business conduct”. This
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“and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:19 ESV Reflection: how much of the fullness of God are you satisfied with? Don’t you have a feeling that there is a lot more? That we have only scratched the surface of
“To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,” Ephesians 3:8 ESV Reflection: how do we look at the work we have been given for the eternal kingdom of Christ? It is easy to get discouraged in this
“And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.” Ephesians 2:17-18 ESV Reflection: if you want to get to safety, is it better to be near or far off? As we are
