Archive for January 2021

Excess and Abundance Ephesians 3:20-21 Introduction: John Lennon wrote a song just after he bought a new piano, spray-painted white, for his wife Yoko Ono’s birthday. Soon afterwards, he wrote “Imagine” on it. “Imagine” was inspired heavily by Ono, who used the word in many of her 1960s conceptual art works. Imagine there’s no heaven,…

God’s Goodness Leading to Repentance Introduction: I challenged you last week to recognize and value the necessity of love. Loving one another (and what that looks like and makes one feel), stemming from an acceptance of God’s love for us. In Romans 2, I feel like I can dovetail on both of these aspects: loving…

The Greatest of These Ephesians 3:17 Introduction : My New Year theme/topics: Unity, Rooted and Grounded and today Love.  ‘That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love’. (NKJ) 1 Corinthians 13:13, ‘And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love’.…

This is a subtitle for your new post Introduction : Last week I spoke from Ephesians 4 about Unity. This week I move a chapter up to Ephesians 3 and to verses 14-21. There are two words in this text: Rooted and Grounded that are the ‘foundational words’ of a few weeks of subjects for…

United We Stand Introduction : One of the greatest challenges faced in the US in 2020 was that of unity. Unity amidst diversity! Is that possible? It must be our goal / intention / purpose and pursuit!  ‘When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.’ – Winston CHurchill  ‘Unity to be…