Series

Ephesians

51 messages · Jan 2015 – Jun 2026

1. Week 1 The Eyes of Your Heart January 21, 2015 Becca Block walks through Paul's prayer in Ephesians 1:15-23, exploring what it means to know God, hope in our calling, and live in the power that raised Christ from the dead.
2. Week 2 Dead Man Walking, But God January 28, 2015 Deborah teaches Ephesians 2 at First Baptist Jackson, tracing how God rescues spiritually dead sinners by grace and calls them His masterpiece with purpose.
3. Week 3 No Longer Strangers and Aliens February 4, 2015 Ephesians 2 traces how Gentiles once excluded from God's covenant are now brought near through Christ's blood and welcomed into one household with God's people.
4. Week 4 Prisoner of Christ, Not of Circumstances February 11, 2015 A pastor shares Ephesians 3 on grace, the church, and suffering, including her own grief after a tragic loss in her home, and what she learned about God's faithfulness.
5. Week 5 Filled Up to All the Fullness of God February 18, 2015 Paul prays for the inner person in Ephesians 3, asking that God's power, love, and fullness would transform believers from the inside out into lives of worship.
6. Week 6 Walk Worthy of Your Calling February 25, 2015 Ephesians 4 study on walking worthy of your calling through humility, patience, love, and peacemaking, and discovering how God's gifts build unity in the church.
7. Week 7 Harmony in the Home March 18, 2015 A mother and Bible teacher walks through Ephesians 6:1-9, exploring what it looks like to obey, honor, and serve when your real motivation is glorifying God.
8. Week 8 Pick Up the Armor and Claim It March 25, 2015 A women's Bible study closes its Ephesians series by walking through the armor of God, showing how truth, righteousness, peace, faith and Scripture guard against spiritual attack.
9. Week 9 By the Will of God April 30, 2017 The pastor walks through Ephesians 1:1-2 and examines what the will of God actually means for believers, from salvation and purity to suffering and submission.
10. Week 10 By the Will of God April 30, 2017 The pastor walks through Ephesians 1:1-2, examining what it means that Paul was an apostle "by the will of God" and what God's will looks like in a believer's life.
11. Week 11 Learning to Lean on God's Will May 28, 2017 Pastor Ray weaves Ephesians 1:3-14 with stories from a Guatemala mission trip, showing how God works out His will through the obedience of ordinary people.
12. Week 12 Blessed Be God the Father May 28, 2017 Pastor Ray walks through Ephesians 1:3-14, a single sweeping doxology of Father, Son, and Spirit, woven together with stories from a mission trip to Guatemala.
13. Week 13 And You Were Dead in Sins June 4, 2017 Robert Lillo shares how God is using education and Bible translation in Nigeria to build up the church, drawing on Ephesians 1 and 2 to show grace in the valley and on the mountaintop.
14. Week 14 And You Were Dead: The Valley Between the Peaks June 4, 2017 Robert Lillo, a Global Scholars missionary in Nigeria, opens Ephesians 2 and shows why Paul uses "and" to hold our blessings and our ruin together in one honest view.
15. Week 15 But God Acted June 18, 2017 Ephesians 2 shows how Christ tore down every wall of hostility between people, and why Christians have no room to hold onto racism, fear, or division.
16. Week 16 He Himself Is Our Peace June 25, 2017 Ephesians 2:11-22 explored: once strangers to God, believers are now built together as His dwelling place through the peace Christ made on the cross.
17. Week 17 The Mystery Made Known July 2, 2017 The pastor walks through Ephesians 3, tracing the mystery of the gospel: that Gentiles are fellow heirs with Israel, and the Church exists to declare God's wisdom to all creation.
18. Week 18 First Be, Then Do July 9, 2017 A review of Ephesians 1-3 showing that who we are in Christ comes before what we do for Him, and that the church exists to carry God's wisdom to the world.
19. Week 19 Doing Follows Being July 9, 2017 Walking through Ephesians 1-3, the pastor shows how God's grace transforms dead sinners into one body, calling the church to be what it already is before doing anything.
20. Week 20 Obey the Signs August 9, 2017 Pastor Ray walks through Ephesians 5:15-21, calling believers to walk wisely, avoid drunkenness, and be filled with the Spirit through song, gratitude, and mutual submission.
21. Week 21 Six Don'ts and One Do September 10, 2017 Ephesians 5:3-16 examined plainly: six behaviors Paul says have no place among believers, and why gratitude is the one thing set against them all.
22. Week 22 Gratitude, Not Gratification September 10, 2017 Ephesians 5:3-16 contrasts six sins Paul names for Christians, sexual, verbal, and otherwise, with the one response he calls for: gratitude toward God.
23. Week 23 Walk Not as Unwise But as Wise September 17, 2017 Pastor Aaron walks through Ephesians 5, calling believers to walk wisely, avoid drunkenness, and instead be filled with the Spirit through song, gratitude, and mutual submission.
24. Week 24 Dead People Made Alive April 8, 2018 Ephesians 2:1-10 explored through the lens of worldview: why we were dead in sin, how God's grace made us alive, and what purpose He has prepared for us.
25. Week 25 Dead in Trespasses, Made Alive in Christ April 8, 2018 Todd Lampa walks through Ephesians 2:1-10, showing how Christians were once dead in sin, deserving judgment, and what God's mercy and grace mean for how we live now.
26. Week 26 You Are Not All Alone January 14, 2024 Jeremy Diebler walks through the "one another" commands of Scripture, showing how loving each other well is the lab where Christian faith becomes real.
27. Week 27 Grace, Faith, Works June 1, 2025 Brad Yates walks through Ephesians 2:8-10, showing why grace comes first, faith follows, and good works flow from both rather than earning what God freely gives.
28. Week 28 Outside the Envelope: Grace and Peace to You March 8, 2026 Pastor Ray opens Ephesians 1, showing how God's grace and peace, given through Christ and sealed by the Holy Spirit, call the church into His will and purpose.
29. Week 29 Be the Church God Wants to See in the World March 15, 2026 The pastor walks through Ephesians 1:15-23, the second longest sentence in the New Testament, exploring what it means for the church to be the living body of Christ in the world.
30. Week 30 Be the Church God Wants to See in the World March 15, 2026 Paul's prayer in Ephesians 1 covers past, present, and future: God's calling, our inheritance, and the power he gives his church to carry his mission forward.
31. Week 31 But God: Rich in Mercy March 22, 2026 Ephesians 2 shows every person starts dead in sin, but God's mercy brings Jews and Gentiles alike into one body through Christ's blood, not our works.
32. Week 32 By the Will of God March 29, 2026 Pastor Ray opens Ephesians by sitting with just two verses, showing how Paul's identity, God's will, and the promise of grace and peace set the foundation for everything that follows.
33. Week 33 According to the Riches of His Glory April 12, 2026 Paul's prayer in Ephesians 3 asks God to strengthen our inner being, grow our faith, deepen our knowledge of Christ's love, and fill us with His fullness.
34. Week 34 According to the Riches of His Glory April 12, 2026 Pastor William walks through Paul's prayer in Ephesians 3, showing why our inner being, faith, knowledge of Christ's love, and fullness in God matter more than anything outward.
35. Week 35 Walk Worthy of the Calling April 19, 2026 Ephesians 4 opens with a call to walk worthy of Christ, exploring unity, spiritual gifts, and what it means to grow up together as one body.
36. Week 36 Walk Worthy of the Calling April 19, 2026 The pastor preached through Ephesians 4:1-16, tracing Paul's call to walk worthy, maintain unity, and use God's gifts to build up the body of Christ.
37. Week 37 Fine Tuning the Saints April 26, 2026 The pastor teaches Ephesians 4:11-13, showing how God equips every believer with gifts for real ministry, whether at church, at work, or in the community.
38. Week 38 Fine Tuning the Saints April 26, 2026 Ephesians 4 explored: what it means that every believer is a saint with a spiritual gift, and how ordinary work and service build up the body of Christ.
39. Week 39 First Be, Then Do May 3, 2026 The pastor walks through Ephesians 4, showing how who we are in Christ comes before how we live, and why being precedes doing in the Christian life.
40. Week 40 Walk Worthy: Put Off, Put On May 3, 2026 Pastor Mark opens Ephesians 4 by grounding the call to walk worthy in the solid truth of chapters 1 through 3, tracing the path from darkness to light.
41. Week 41 Put Away Falsehood, Speak the Truth in Love May 10, 2026 Ephesians 4-5 examined: put away falsehood, anger, theft and corrupt speech, and walk in love as imitators of God, just as Christ gave himself for us.
42. Week 42 Easy to Understand, Hard to Do May 10, 2026 A Mother's Day sermon on Ephesians 4:25, 5:2, calling believers to speak truth, guard anger, work honestly, tame the tongue, and imitate God as His beloved children.
43. Week 43 Awake, Sleeper, and Rise from the Dead May 17, 2026 A verse-by-verse look at Ephesians 5:3-14 on corrupt speech, sexual immorality, greed, and what it means to walk as a child of light rather than darkness.
44. Week 44 Awake Sleeper and Rise from the Dead May 17, 2026 Ephesians 5 calls Christians out of darkness and into light, which means leaving behind corrupting speech, sexual immorality, greed, and foolish talk to walk as saints.
45. Week 45 Pay Careful Attention to How You Walk May 24, 2026 Ephesians 5 calls believers to walk wisely, diligently, and in step with God's will, filled by the Spirit rather than wasting the season God has given.
46. Week 46 Submitting to One Another in the Fear of Christ June 7, 2026 Pastor Van walks through Ephesians 5, exploring what mutual submission looks like for husbands, wives, children, parents, and workers who follow Christ.
47. Week 47 Submitting to One Another in the Fear of Christ June 7, 2026 Pastor Nathan walks through Ephesians 5, exploring mutual submission, marriage, parenting, and work as expressions of being filled with the Spirit.
48. Week 48 Strong in the Lord and the Strength of His Might June 14, 2026 Ephesians 6 sermon on the armor of God, spiritual warfare, communion, and what it means to stand firm not by your own strength but in the Lord's.
49. Week 49 Hills and Valleys: Walking Out the Faith June 21, 2026 Pastor Van closes Ephesians and opens Philippians, tracing grace, peace, and the call to humble, joyful service through Paul's final greetings and opening words.
50. Week 50 The Full Armor of God and the Comms Check June 21, 2026 Pastor Ray works through Ephesians 6, showing that the armor of God is a collective calling, not an individual one, and that our fight is never against other people.
51. Week 51 Grace and Peace, Always June 21, 2026 Paul closes Ephesians with grace and peace, then opens Philippians with the same. A study of how joy, unity, and humility flow from the gospel.

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