All Sermons in Ephesians

(text and audio) Title: What is at stake? Intro: Obviously, verse seven completes the thought that Paul begins in verse 6, namely, that Christ accomplishes the “Three Togethers” that we discussed last week… …that we are made to “be raised up together, made to sit together, and made to sit in the heavenly places together” …

(text and audio) Title: Beating the Horse to Death Intro: Mindy, in your years of teaching music, is there a song that you just HATE having to teach?  Why? I feel like I have a particular challenge with today’s sermon.  Put another way, there are some unique obstacles with this passage that make it a…

(text and audio) Title: Who Gets The Glory? Intro: We have far too much to cover today for an introduction! “workmanship” Greek:  poiema Definition: 1.  that which has been made 2.  a work 3.  of the works of God as creator All of the major English versions translate this word “workmanship” except the NIV (handiwork)…

(text and audio) Title: Therefore, Remember (Part One) Intro: As we begin this morning I want to take you back to a magical time.  The date was February 23rd, 2020…it was the last day we studied Ephesians together at Heritage. …does that not seem like a lifetime ago?  For most of us, Coronavirus was not…

(text and audio) Title: Therefore, Remember (Part Two) Intro:(Show Two Snowshoe Slides) Story about realizing how close you were to disaster:  Driving up the fog covered windy road to the top of Snowshoe, WV.  Then seeing the road the next day and realizing how close we were to disaster. And, after seeing the road, our…

(text and audio) Title: Three Walls Intro:In our culture today, what images does the word “wall” drum up? We see the concept of “walls” all over scripture. Probably the most famous example is the walls of Jericho tumbling after the shout from the people of Israel. We have Ezra and Nehemiah after the exiles are…

(text and audio) Title: Unity at What Cost? Intro: IJust trust me on this:  the title of this message will not make sense until we reach the end of the message.  So don’t worry about how it fits in just yet, we will get there. This is a message that builds to a very challenging…

(text and audio) Title: Bringing Humility to the Body Intro: When I was 17, I fancied myself an above average athlete.  (In total transparency, I still fancy myself an above average athlete, for a chubby 43 year old.) Anyway, when I was 17, I decided to go back out for the football team after not…

(Audio/Video/Text) Title: 2 Things We Are, 2 Things We Are Not Intro: Initiation, “earning your stripes” “Now, therefore…” In a broad sense, this “therefore” points back to the major theme that Paul has been teaching since the beginning of chapter 2, namely, that the work that Christ accomplished on the cross has unified all peoples,…

(Audio/Video/Text) Title: The Blueprint Intro: Did you guys know that I was an architect? (Story of Ben drawing up plans for our house.) Read/Pray The Blueprint for the Household of God has some very specific characteristics: Chuck Smith, Dave Guzik and others urge us to not think that the prophets mentioned here are O.T. prophets,…

(Audio/Video/Text) *Note, for the video of this sermon, copy/paste the link below to view on Facebook. https://fb.watch/u4hPUxI1Te/ Title: The Great Tangent (Part One) Intro: How Marc told a story.  Master of tangents. NKJV: For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles— 2 if indeed you have heard of the [a]dispensation of…

(Audio/Video/Text) Title: The Great Tangent (Part Two) Intro: A reminder from last week: Paul BEGINS a thought in verse ONE, he then goes on a tangent explaining the nature of his own special insight about the union between Jew and Gentile in verses TWO through THIRTEEN.  He gets back to his original thought in verse…