Keeping heart also requires that we learn how to run true again. The witness of Scripture consistently points to the beautiful reality that God made you on purpose (Psalm 139) and for a purpose (Ephesians 2). The Hebrew writer taps into this reality in verse one as he calls us to “run...
(Matthew 13:41,49). They watch with sympathetic eyes the fortunes of men, rejoicing in the repentance of a sinner (Luke 15:10; compare1 Peter 1:12;Ephesians 3:10;1 Corinthians 4:9); and they will hear the Son of Man confessing or denying those who have confessed or denied Him ...
We have to make the goal of living for Him, greater than living for ourselves (John 3:30). And remember that the ultimate goal is not to win an argument, but to point people to the only One who can truly bring peace. Keep growing our roots into the Lord (Ephesians 3:17) in ...
Stoics believed that reason is mankind's greatest asset, but Paul explained that the greatest thing that can be known is the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge (Ephesians 3:19). Love, to Paul, was not simply a feeling but rather a Sitz im Leben as much as a modus operandi of...
Imitation is what allows large groups of individuals to gravitate upon a common center, from which in turn each individual identity comes to derive (Ephesians 3:15). The name Eve is identical to the noun חוה (hawwa), meaning tent village: the most primitive form of human settlement...
Salvation: Grace is often associated with God's act of providing salvation to humanity. In Christian theology, it is believed that salvation is not earned by human effort but is a gift from God through His grace. This is based on passages like Ephesians 2:8-9, which states, "For by gra...
means “total inability.” The common dictionary meaning of inability is,not having the quality or state of being able to do something.Calvinism says that because all mankind is dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1-4), they cannot respond in any way to receive Christ as the...
“Take the helmet of salvation” (Ephesians 6:17). What It Means: Salvation comes the moment we place our trust in Jesus’ death and resurrection as the payment for our sin. But salvation is also worked out through a lengthy process of sanctification. ...
faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge;that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:14-19)...