Devotional Commentary of EphesiansStudying the Book of Ephesians by certain recurring key words and phrases...
Key Words #1: The Father
WE NEED BOTH GRACE AND PEACE (Ephesians 1:2)
The following is recommended reading from the blog by Justin Taylor, on the gospel coalition website.
J. I. Packer:
For the Puritans, the landscape of piety-that is, the spiritual topography of the ongoing life-situations in which each saint serves God-was determined by four realities, on all of which, as their books show, they laid out a great deal of expository effort.
MARCH 7, 1858, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE MUSIC HALL, ROYAL SURREY GARDENS. “
No man can come to Me, except the Father who sent Me draws him.” John 6:44.
“COMING to Christ” is a very common phrase in Holy Scripture. It is used to express those acts of the soul wherein leaving at once our self-righteousness and our sins, we fly unto the Lord Jesus Christ and receive His righteousness to be our covering and His blood to be our atonement.
UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION
From Inward/Outward, a blog from the Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C.
We don't want to just read about what God wants. We don't want someone else telling us what God wants either.... We want our eyes to be God's eyes so that we can see the world the way God sees it.
And let the loveliness of our Lord, our God, rest on us, confirming the work that we do. Oh, yes.…
Read More
Paradigm Questions To which of the following commands of Christ’s do you only pay only lip service? Love your enemies…
Read More
Eugene Peterson’s book, Eat This Book gets its name from Revelation 10:9-10 when John asks for the scroll containing God’s…
Read More
This Christian apologetics written by C. S. Lewis and first published in 1942. Lewis composed a book of letters from…
Read More
Bob Dylan in the song Watered-Down Love describes the treacheries of watering down the love that God has for us.…
Read More
Bruce Cockburn’s song Dialogue With The Devil powerfully describes the ease of slipping away from the presence of God and…
Read More
Amazing Grace is a historical drama about William Wilberforce who was elected to British Parliament at the age of 21…
Read More
Academy Award nominated film from 1973 about the spiritual awakening of St. Francis of Assisi. The style of the film…
Read More
The finished diamond is one of the most beautiful and desirable gems.
Read More
As we abide in him and he abides in us, we are receiving his life rather than creating our own…
Read More
“falling in love with God,” as Boa’s subtitle for the facet explains. In this approach we attempt to enter into…
Read More
We experience a great sense of the wonder, boldness, and overwhelming awe of God through our relationship with the Holy…
Read More
Praise is adoration of God for who He is, His person, His character, His names. It is loving God because…
Read More
What does it mean to be a Christian?
Read More
What does it mean to be a disciple, to follow the disciplines necessary to serve Jesus with our whole heart?
Read More
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Mark 16:15
Read More
