10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. Paul told the Ephesians in chapter 4 to put on the new self and put off the old humanity. He told them to be imitators…

22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.  25 Husbands, love your wives,…

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. The Ephesian church may have been the lowest…

6 This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.  Everybody loves a good mystery. Except when they don’t. Vicki loves Agatha Christie. I am a Sherlockian. We love solving mysteries around the house like the Case of the Ink Stain on my Linen…

4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— “But God”. Those two words are a theme in Ephesians, indeed, in all of Scripture. Adam sinned, but God promised the serpent’s head…

13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.  This is from Paul’s introduction in his letter to the church in…