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ARBOR CHURCH
Ephesians is a drama portraying the cosmos-transforming acts of God in Christ.
– Tim Gombis, The Drama of Ephesians
Ryan opens our new message series in the book of Ephesians.
Before God tells us what to do, He tells us who we are.
This week in our series The Triumph of God, Ryan walks us through the long and breathless sentence of Ephesians 1:3-14, and what it has to say about the old stories of our lives … and the new ones spoken by God.
From the I see you! cried during a kid’s game of kick-the-can to the metaphorical lenses offered to us by Paul in Ephesians, Scott shares about how we can change not just our knowledge of God but our very perception.
You didn’t escape on your own — you were carried out. In Ephesians 2:1–10, we uncover the story of God’s rescue and what it means to stop performing and start living free.
For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility, when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace, and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.
– Ephesians 2
We’ve been rescued not just from sin but into a new reality. This week, Ryan teaches on the unity we’re called to in Christ.
This was according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and confident access to God by way of Christ’s faithfulness. For this reason I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.
– Ephesians 3
Even as we suffer, even as we wonder why, and even as we doubt there being any good left, we can trust God’s triumph in Christ.
That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
– Ephesians 3:17
In this message from Ephesians 3, we’re reminded that God’s presence isn’t reserved for a place, but for a people—and that we experience His fullness together.
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
– Ephesians 4
How is a raven the church like a writing-desk model house? Ryan answers this unusual question in today’s message about Paul’s call to unity and the church’s role as a preview of the kingdom of God.
