May 16, 2025
on May 16th, 2025
Ephesians 6:4-9 (HCSB)4 Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.Slaves and Masters5 Slaves, obey your human[e] masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ. 6 Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s willfrom your heart. 7 Serve with a good at... Read More
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May 15, 2025
on May 15th, 2025
Ephesians 6:1-3 (HCSB)Children and Parents6 Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right. 2 Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, 3 so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land.Lisa EstesIf you were to ask most people how long they would like to live, they would say as long as possible. Honor your ... Read More
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May 14, 2025
on May 14th, 2025
Ephesians 5:22-33 (HCSB)Wives and Husbands22 Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord, 23 for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her 26 to make ... Read More
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May 13, 2025
on May 13th, 2025
Ephesians 5:15-21 (HCSB)Consistency in the Christian Life15 Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise— 16 making the most of the time, because the days are evil. 17 So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. 18 And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless actions, but be filled by the Spirit:19 speaking to one anotherin psalms, hym... Read More
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May 12, 2025
on May 12th, 2025
Ephesians 5:1-14 (HCSB)5 Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children. 2 And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. 3 But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints. 4 Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving tha... Read More
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Sunday Connect Lesson for May 11, 2025
on May 11th, 2025
SAVING GRACEPraise and obey God. We deserve God’s wrath, but He sent His Son to save us.KEY TRUTH: Unbelievers Are Spiritually Dead in Sin (Ephesians 2:1–3)KEY TRUTH: People Are Saved By Grace Through Faith in Christ (Ephesians 2:4–10)KEY TRUTH: Believers in Christ Are United as Part of God’s Household(Ephesians 2:11-22)FAMILY CONNECTION: CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION AFTER CHURCH!What does it mean to ... Read More
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Questions for the Week
on May 10th, 2025
At what point in your life did you turn from the inclinations of the flesh and accept this gift from God? What do you remember about your life before Christ? What change has He made in your life? Share your answer with your small group or an individual this week. 2. What times in your life have you felt far from God? What made you feel distant from Him. How did God draw you near? How d... Read More
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May 9, 2025
on May 9th, 2025
Ephesians 2:19-22 (HCSB)19 So then you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone. 21 The whole building, being put together by Him, grows into a holy sanctuary in the Lord. 22 You also are being built together for God’s dwelling i... Read More
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May 8, 2025
on May 8th, 2025
Ephesians 2:11-18 (HCSB)Unity in Christ11 So then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh—called “the uncircumcised” by those called “the circumcised,” which is done in the flesh by human hands. 12 At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But n... Read More
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May 7, 2025
on May 7th, 2025
Ephesians 2:8-10 (HCSB)8 For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift— 9 not from works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.Andy NashHuman nature is to boast about what we have accomplished in our own life. In Monday’s reading yo... Read More
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May 6, 2025
on May 6th, 2025
Ephesians 2:4-7 (HCSB)4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us, 5 made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace! 6 Together with Christ Jesus He also raised us up and seated us in the heavens, 7 so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace through His kindness to us in Christ J... Read More
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May 5, 2025
on May 5th, 2025
Ephesians 2:1-3 (HCSB)From Death to Life2 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins 2 in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler who exercises authority over the lower heavens, the spirit now working in the disobedient. 3 We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we... Read More
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