Mark is pastor of Lafayette Salem Evangelical Church, and veteran missionary of 30 years. He and his family have served overseas in China and in the Dominican Republic. His wife, Rachel, is a local gal from Whittier, IA. They met while serving in China.
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Last week, we looked at Paul’s main command to wives: to submit to your husbands. We saw that a wife’s submission to her husband was tied directly to her submission to Christ. She is supposed to submit to her husband as she submits to Christ,…
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Continue reading...Ephesians 5:15-21 is a summary and conclusion for the instructions that began at the beginning of Chapter 4. Verse 21 also acts as a springboard for what follows. There’s still more guidance to come! In the same way, there is still much for us to…
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Continue reading...We’ve been learning a lot about what it looks like to imitate God. We’re seeing what the old self—which follows after the likeness of the devil—looks like, and what the new self is supposed to look like. That new self was created to be like…
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