Text: Ephesians 5:21-6:9
Title: Submit to Each Other
Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower
As we seek to follow Jesus in all areas of our, Paul urges us to submit to one another out of reverence for Jesus. Then he offers some examples of what that can look like in our marriages, homes, and even in his time between slaves and masters. Today, we consider how we can model God’s kingdom as we serve one another in love.
Text: Ephesians 4:1-16
Title: So, Now What?
Preacher: Mrs. Chelsea Reynhout
After hearing the good new of Jesus, there is a point that we all stop and ask, “Ok, so now what?” That’s where chapter 4 of Ephesians brings us: “Now what?” This week we will explore our calling to peace and what it might mean as a community.
Text: Ephesians 3:1-21
Title: What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower
After a brief digression, Paul offers the Ephesians his prayer for them. He prays for them to be transformed by Christ and to finally comprehend the love of our God. Have you taken time to consider the width, length, height, and depth of our God’s love. Today we consider this vast love and how understanding it can change out lives and our world.
Text: Ephesians 2:1-22
Title: It’s All Grace
Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower
Have you ever received a difficult diagnosis from a doctor? Maybe it was cancer or heart disease, diabetes or lupus, or some other chronic disease. For many people, our first response in the face of difficult news is to deny, reject, or ignore the diagnosis. We can get scared and even angry with the bearer of this difficult news. This morning, Paul delivers some difficult news to us. We are dead in our sins. We are deserving of punishment. Will we stay to listen to the treatment plan or reject the truth and look for a more comfortable lie to live? This is the question before the Ephesians and us as we read together Ephesians 2:1-22.
Text: Ephesians 1:15-23
Title: The Word on the Street
Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower
We continue our sermon series reading through the book of Ephesians. The word on the street reaches in Paul in Rome and he celebrates the life of the church in Ephesus. The word on the street still has power today. Through friends and family, social media, we gather information about our world and how we can understand it. But sometimes, we need to listen to another word, not the word on the street, but the word in heaven. The truth that does not change. We continue the series reflecting on Ephesians 1:15-23 and we get a heavenly view on our present reality.
Text: Ephesians 1:-14
Title: Can You Believe this Election?
Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower
We start a new 8-week sermon series reading through the book of Ephesians. While many point to Romans as the most influential of all Paul’s letters, many other scholars point to Ephesians as the greatest summary of Paul’s thought and the lens through which we should read the rest of his letters. Ephesians offers us a glimpse of the big picture of the gospel and then as it proceeds outlines how we now ought to live in light of this good news. We begin the series at the beginning in Ephesians 1:1-14 and reflect in wonder at God’s gracious gift of salvation given in Christ.
Text: Job 1:13-22
Title: When God Doesn’t Make Sense
Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower
Life doesn’t always go the way we expect, and we pray to God for help and guidance. But sometimes it seems like even though we pray with faith, God doesn’t do what we’ve asked. We seek Him, but don’t feel His presence. We go through pain, but our cries for relief seem to go unanswered. Sometimes, our lives just don’t make sense. No one has experienced this confusion more than Job. This week, we meet Job as he loses everything for no apparent reason. Sitting in the dust of grief, we wrestle with him how to understand our world and our God when God doesn’t make sense to us.
Text: Job 1:13-22
Title: When God Doesn’t Make Sense
Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower
Life doesn’t always go the way we expect, and we pray to God for help and guidance. But sometimes it seems like even though we pray with faith, God doesn’t do what we’ve asked. We seek Him, but don’t feel His presence. We go through pain, but our cries for relief seem to go unanswered. Sometimes, our lives just don’t make sense. No one has experienced this confusion more than Job. This week, we meet Job as he loses everything for no apparent reason. Sitting in the dust of grief, we wrestle with him how to understand our world and our God when God doesn’t make sense to us.
Text: Hosea 1:1-3
Title: Once Upon a Marriage: Hosea and Gomer
Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower
There’s nothing quite like a juicy love story…the romance, the intrigue, and maybe a little scandal. We’re digging in to some of the greatest biblical marriages to see what we can learn. Travel back in time with us for “Once Upon a Marriage.” Join us this week as we visit the marriage of Hosea and Gomer as they navigate the grief of adultery and model the overwhelming grace of our God.
