From the very beginning of his letter to the church in Ephesus, the Apostle Paul’s writing and imagination is steeped in God’s activity in Jesus Christ. And he wants us to get caught up in that with him. As we continue our series going through Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, Rob preaches from Ephesians 1.7-10.

As he continues to unpack the longest sentence in the New Testament, he looks at the second blessing Paul identifies – that in the present, we have received redemption. But in order for us to have redemption now, it means that we must have once been in bondage to something, and couldn’t free ourselves. As we press into the meaning of redemption, we find that we have been liberated through the abundant showering of God’s grace, so that we can be united together to Jesus in his new Kingdom.

From the very beginning of his letter to the church in Ephesus, the Apostle Paul’s writing and imagination is steeped in God’s activity in Jesus Christ. And he wants us to get caught up in that with him. As we continue our series going through Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, Rob preaches from Ephesians 1.3-6.

As he begins to unpack the longest sentence in the New Testament, he shows us that Paul is stretching and expanding our horizons to behold reality and time as so much bigger than we realized. And from our expanded horizons, Paul shows us that, before the beginning of creation, God’s end goal was not that we would simply exist and be ‘out there’ – but rather that we could come and be gathered up into him, and be adopted as his children.

From the very beginning of his letter to the church in Ephesus, the Apostle Paul’s writing and imagination is steeped in God’s activity in Jesus Christ. And he wants us to get caught up in that with him. As we begin a new preaching series going through Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, Rob preaches from Ephesians 1.1-2.

Unpacking Paul’s greeting to this church in Ephesus, and the say he addresses them, he helps us to see that from the very first words of this letter – and before he’s even got to verse 3 – the way Paul says “hello” reveals he is intent on grounding us in the good news of Jesus Christ, and the implications for what it means in our lives.