“Submission.” We treat it like a dirty word. It’s OK if everyone has to submit to each other. Not so great when one group has to submit to another. So we’ve decided to fix that in our modern era. We’re discarding authority, thinking we’ve found…
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…
Continue reading...Last week we saw how necessary it is for salvation that we submit to the Lord Jesus Christ and work with Him to conform ourselves to His likeness. We need to remove sexual immorality, impurity, covetousness, obscenity, moronic talk and coarse joking from our lives…
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…
Continue reading...What does it mean to put off the old self and put on the new? Here’s a perfect illustration. A list of things we are supposed to remove from our hearts and lives. And a list of things we’re supposed to build in. The transformation…
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